moonflyer said:
well i would like to see realistic visual effects + fantastic geometry design
yup ut is not a realistic game, but that doesn't mean ut can't have realistic visual effects like realtime shadow, realtime global illumination, displacement map...
in another word, ut could be in a different universe than ours(so no realistic geometry design, especially architecture design), but still looks believable and kind of realistic
Yup, its why UT99 works and UT2kx doesn't. The Graphics are just too cartoony and fake looking in UT2kx.
Its also what sucked about the new star wars films, the characters and graphics looked too cartoony and flashy.
Good examples of photo realisitic and fantastically imaginative in the film world would be:
The Machine world in the Matrix, completely imaginary, but it looks believable.
Esp the embryonic chambers the humans are traped in.
The T1000 in Terminator 2, Photorealistic but totally Sci-Fi. The T800 Terminators themselves look like machines that could exist (They have pistons and hydraulics, machine pieces, Infrared camera eyes)
The Laserguns in the future of Terminator, were made to deliberately sound like machineguns by james cameron. He wanted the audience to be able to identify them with modern weapons more, lasers in previous sci fi made rediculous sounds and didn't sound intimidating!
The Dropship in Aliens, was based on a Milltary helicopter. The soldiers, their equipment and weapons were all based on contemporary millitary models, but made more futuristic. The Aliens themselves are completely imaginative but look real, they look like a creature that could exist!
The Creatures in Pitch black are photo-realistic, so is the desert world in it.
In the Stargate movie, the technology is ridiculousy advanced looking, but beleivable and photorealistic.
Cartoony visuals in Science Fiction just don't work, it makes the world twice as unbelievable. Photorealistic doesn't mean drab, bland colours and dull lighting, flat textures and dull enviroments. Your trying to make people believe things that don't exist, or they have never seen, so they have to be at least look a little natural, and be made out of things that are grounded in reality!