That was an awesome read,thanks.

spare us the technicality 

Yeah, but I'd like to see it in the game play. I'd like to see how much the 4D doing the difference than the 3D.

looks awsome. cant wait to sit and play in these envoiroments :P

Amazing article, thanks v/much

That means if you just put away your controller at faced a plant for 10 years it will actually grow... COOL!

Great article and this shows that the PS3 is the ONLY TRUE next gen console, look forward to seeing this in games

The real question is how does this make better games? If you can fake this effect by switching textures between two or three states, then whats the benfit of the playstation method? Is the effect easier to achieve? does it cut down on development time? Find a way to make this a quantifiable bonus before celebrating it.

These dynamics would be great in a Silent Hill game or another horror genre type. Imagine walking into what looks like a seemingly normal house, and then suddenly everything starts degrading fast. Walls will brown, tiles crack, windows break and then suddenly here comes Pyramid Head...well you get the point...that would be f***ing freaky.

318kb... thats impossible

I remember watching those awhile back. They still look awesome.

Looks average. has anyone seen shrek 4D @ universal,i have several times now thats the bees!

is that why GRAW2 took so long?

Please!  Stop showing demos of the hardware capability and actually release a game!!!

 

-dad

very interesting. ps3 rules!!

wass up PSU guys feel free to add me my PSN ID is cool661

psn id: gingo.... when i read the title i was like psu av finally snapped but after reading this is like the coolest thing ever

very good read. aye, whoever is putting thumbs down on this article............ get the fÚcK off psu.com !!!!!

The first video was incredible. a littlve over 300kb for that whole scene is remarkable. However, I honestly fail to see how the giraffe eating couldn't be done anywheer else. It's just a two second animation that even I could pop out in 5 or 10 minutes with my limited 3Ds Max knowledge. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Sony boy, I just think you're focusing on the wrong highlights.

this would be most effective in gta 4

or OBLIVION

or [insert any ps3 game here]

 

"that even I could pop out in 5 or 10 minutes with my limited 3Ds Max knowledge." I'm a game developer first and foremost, and can tell you that you can and will not definitely be popping that out in 5 or 10 minutes with 3D Studio Max. As 3DStudio Max can't support procedural textures. If you don't see how that's so complex, animation is certainly not your thing.

Incredible... thank you Usman. @ Perfect Sin that is an awesome example.

sweet. now we know it can be done on ps3 lets see sony put it in one of their next big 2008 games.

 

woah this is was an amazin read once again provin the almightly power of the ps3

it almost looks surreal. I would love to see a resident evil or a silent hill in this setting.

Alpha2 if you dont like graphical evolution go play W11

I do really love my PS3 but to say that motorstorm isn't capable on 360 is just a lie! 

cool article

Hey KainZ7 how about you try not being a prick. My argument is valid.

Really, the only thing that this corrects that can't be done with bit-mapped textures is size. And that's a good thing. That means more content. I downloaded the program used to make these textures (it's free, so I'd recommend that anyone interested does the same), and It's very similar to using photoshop. I can't wait for this to start being used in games.

hmm im surprized they call it "4D" the idea of the 4th dimension being duration is still being debated and differs in meaning from a geometerical stand point and a temperial one. Well if they are going w/ this meaning of 4D then 6D would make for some fun games (actually it would be a 5D game w/ a 6D engine), if 4D is time, then 5D would be all the possible other time lines orginating from any single point in time, cool concept but really useless in games w/o using 6D as well. 6D would be the ability to change from one time line to another allowing the player to change the out come or avoiding things all together. They really shouldnt say these games are in 4D, if they were truly 4D then you would see all of the timeline in one "snake like" object w/ one end being the beginning and other being the end. These games are really 3D games interacting w/ a 4D engine.

Oh my god! Graphic Ectasy. PS3 is my girl lol.

"Find a way to make this a quantifiable bonus before celebrating it." Ok, lets all celebrate by playing some Motorstorm. Seriously though, graphics are needed to convey information to the gamer, such as 'how much traction do I have here.' Without the ability to depict changing conditions such as this, you limit your gameplay a great deal. I'm sure we will see the best examples come later in the systems life.

i think i can love now ^_^ lmao thats how this article made me feel

Alpha2, In some points your right. The goal sony is trying to acheive is making games more realistic. Think about it we have gone a long way since atari. From your point of view yes i would rather play 5hitty graphic games but if they are fun then its the best. Indeed, Your right. Not everyone thinks like you do, I personally want a more realistic picture but at the same time a fun game. It makes better games by giving it a sexy look. Many games MIGHT be fun but, I bet you have turned many of them down because they look hideous. So yea the point is, Graphics for OUR generation the year 2007!  ARE a big deal.

ps3 will be a killing machine

The 360 & ps3 share the same dna but the diference is that the 360 has 6 conventional threads and the ps3 has 1 conventional + risc 6 threads.

Basicly the ps3 can do 4d  and so could 360 but the 360 real capabilitys that outshine the ps3 is the intelligence and the iteractivity of the cpu itself with game.

x360  = strong multiple AI and personalitys , 3.5d graphics and interactive background.

PS3 = interactive personalities and  AI and 4d graphics.

You know what game would be great for this? Alan Wake! Why on earth is this not in development on the PS3 anymore? I guess I'll be getting White Knight Story. Great article.

Alpha2 hes not being a prick your just being stupid the article wasn't about watch 4d graphics revelutionize gameplay it was about how new technology and how it's cool...

would make for a nice house cleaning game

That is amazing! Envoiroments that live, breath, and as time passes changes by it's self! Only the Playstation 3 is able to do this! I have invested my money into something worth investing in! The Xbox 360 just isn't as powerfull as the Playstation 3. The Xbox 360 has had it's days and the Playstation 3 has finaly been realized to be A Very Powerfull piece of technoligy! The future of The Playstation 3 is looking very good and the spectrum of games for the Playstation 3 is extremly wide.

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Someone should spam this to EA so they can get an idea of what games could be like.

By your definition, isn't damage modelling on cars in games about 10 years old '4D' graphics? Which, by the way, needs a new, non-buzz word name that actually doesn't break physics.

Looks good cant wait for the playstation to be at the top of the list again with is more advanced games.

 

I loved this, great article! verry interesting. I'm exited all over again.

the ps3 only has 7 psu - 1 is switched off during manufacturing to increase chip yield and decrease costs per cell processor. blade systems with fully enabled cell processors cost about twice as much as a ps3... still, even 7 psu are a lot of horsepower...

in regards to procedural textures: i can only recommend to have a look around www.scene.org and especially take a very close look at the 64kb and less demo sections. there is some real eye candy on display, amazing animations, sound and textures and that all written in 64kb of code (or less). these guys from the pc demo scene really know how to program ultra-efficient algorithms and how to squeez every last drop of juice out of the available hardware - how i wish that sony would donate some dev-kits to these people...

amazing ps3 IS the best concle

Hehe cool, 4D, thought 3d had it all, wonder if there will come a 5D

that what im talking about i new ps3 can go beyond any other console ,,,,,,,,, Playbeyond

that s why I waited in line for 2 days for a PS3

bring on the games

 

@ HalfLifeDev

Not sure where to begin...........should I call BS on the fact you say you're a game developer, you know 3DS Max, or that 3DS Max can't support procedural textures. I've been using Max on a daily basis for like 6 years so I know what it can and can't do......and 3DS Max  most certainly supports procedural textures you idiot! So if you're full of cr@p about knowing Max, I'm pretty sure your full of crap about being a game dev. Oh and If you do actually use Max, go into the Tutorial files....they have a nice one on doing procedural textures, but that can't be right.......because you claim it can't be done in Max.........Freakin Poser

mgs4 and killzone 2 will both take some advantage of this but we wont start seeing games reach full ps3 potential until between late 2008 and mid 2009 but its interesting what rivel stated if you could understand all that mumbo jumbo he was saying that a player would be able to fully control the effects of the world around him by doing different things in a certain point time that will effect the future in the game differently rather the game following in a straight path with a few bumps and turns. ps3 is actually the first step in virtual reality if this technology is mastered a fully immersive world thats living and breathing that is responsive

amazing.

simply amazing.

great read guys! thanks alot!

Only possible on PS3.