Force Powers Tech Demo

[Kadath]

Sorry if this was already posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbvmH...force%20powers

Sam

[RepoMan]

That's cool. Comments on the vid say it uses Ageia in its PC implementation? Still, I want more games like that :-) Hell, almost looks TOO powerful!

What was that Xbox game where you chuck people all over with your throbbing brain gristle? I'm thinking it's a bargain bin scooper if I can remember it and then locate it. And where the heck can you get Beyond Good & Evil? Ain't no way to find it in brick-mortar-land....

(Why am I still buying xbox games, I ask myself? Because I want to wait for Halo 3 and Mass Effect -- and price drop -- before jumping on the 360 bandwagon, I answer myself.)

[Aszurom]

Psi-ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

Nothing quite like levitating someone, using them as a bullet shield, lighting them on fire and bashing them off a few walls.

[tronnc]

Man i really want another jedi knight game.

[K0NY]

Forgive the ignorance: does the "pre-vis" thing as the beginning mean that it's rendered and not in an actual game engine of any sort?

[steve]

Forgive the ignorance: does the "pre-vis" thing as the beginning mean that it's rendered and not in an actual game engine of any sort?

No, I believe it refers to their animation system, which isn't using canned animations and is relying on physics and skeletal systems. Or something like that.

[Supertanker]

Best thing in Psi-Ops is clicking both joystick buttons while mind controlling a guy. Undocumented, uses all of your energy, but it makes him shoot himself in the head. He doesn't want to do it, but can't stop it.

[MatthewF]

It most definitely is using at least some canned anims. Those storm troopers can't possibly move like that with a procedural, code-driven system.. at least not for another 10 years.

[Jonathan Blow]

"pre-vis" sounds like a euphemistic way to say "prerendered" to me.

The difference being, "we are prerendering this in order to give us a target to aim for with the real game," as opposed to, "we are prerendering this just for a cutscene, or to fool you."

[ambushbug]

"pre-vis" sounds like a euphemistic way to say "prerendered" to me.

The difference being, "we are prerendering this in order to give us a target to aim for with the real game," as opposed to, "we are prerendering this just for a cutscene, or to fool you."

That's the way I took it, here's a wiki entry for anyone interested in the term.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Previsualization

[PixelParts]

It most definitely is using at least some canned anims. Those storm troopers can't possibly move like that with a procedural, code-driven system.. at least not for another 10 years.

I think it might be a bit less than 10 years ;)
"We're also working with NaturalMotion on the "euphoria" biomechanical AI system mentioned earlier. Euphoria gives our characters a central nervous system that results in very realistic reactions and interactions with the environment. We can even impart characters with a sense of self-preservation. Stormtroopers thrown from a building will try to protect themselves from the fall, or grab hold of something to keep from plummeting to their deaths. All of this is simulation-based, so it's different every time."

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/721/721019p1.html

[K0NY]

Interesting article. Equally interesting, is its placement in the PS3 section of IGN. If you beautifully creative human beings at LucasArts are able to deliver a game to my Playstation3 which allows me to use the tilt features of my controller to manupulate objects I've levitated in the air, or knock tie-fighters out of the sky, you will have my eternal gratitude (and my sixty five American dollars )!

BONUS POINTS: If the player is able to use the "Jedi mind trick" to pick up chicks or Force powers to control the flight of a lit lightsaber which slices through enemies.

[Reldan]

I think they may be high on some "Euphoria" themselves. Their stormtroopers have central nervous systems? Right. Sure.

Never heard of any company vastly overstating the capabilities of some new AI technology before. Nuh-uh. Somehow it always ends up boiling back down to some sort of need-based system and Markov chains.

[Kadath]

Emotion Engine *cough*

[phanfasm]

This is definitely pre-rendered visual/gameplay target style stuff. They are going for uber-force powers here, to which I say, yes. Yes plz.