Exclusive tech/engine info on Rome 2!

[boxleitnerb]

This is from the German hardware site PCGH:

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Rome-2...Infos-1025823/

• Unified program code for land and sea battles
• CA wants us to use the new unit cam. They want to achieve this by making the close-ups look really good in terms of animation
• Animation system calculated by the GPU, based on vertex texture fetch, the animation key frames are saved in a dynamic texture
• Additionally support for cinematic meshes where 4 bones can influence single vertices
• Improvements in DX10 texture arrays
• DX11 compute shader used to improve and accelerate HDR rendering, FFT (fast fourier transformation) ocean rendering
• DX11 tessellation used for higher geometry accuracy of terrain and water
• Rome 2 will be mainly dependent on the GPU
• CA will try to spread calculations over multiple cores/threads
• Scalability of the engine from low end to high end is important. CA is working more with LOD (level of detail) techniques

Nothing breathtakingly new, but I thought you might want to know

[Ichon]

Thanks for the enthusiasm but I think this is the 4th or 5th report on this.

[Biggus Splenus]

First I've seen of it. Sounds great, but I might need a new GPU then

[A Barbarian]

CA will try to spread calculations over multiple cores/threads

Hopefully more successful than last time, lol

Scalability of the engine from low end to high end is important. CA is working more with LOD (level of detail) techniques

I want to be able to adjust LOD myself like you can do in Skyrim for example (ugrids=9 ). That way you could improve visuals even more as soon as a new CPU/GPU generation is available.

[Durnaug]

Thanks for the summary. Very interesting.

[MasterBigAb]

This has already been brought up, we have a sticky News thread therefor, please use that one.

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