Photo-realistic game engine from Square Enix

Mon, Oct 17 2011 11:29:23 PDT filed under news
This summer, Square Enix released a video showing a pretty impressive new photo-realistic engine they’re working on called Luminous.

Now, a Japanese site has an article about it, in which some of the developers talk about the technical choices they made for the engine, and show off some new comparisons between real photos and in-game, real time footage. From the screenshots, it seems like they succeeded in making an impressive product. The company says that Luminous is fully DirectX 11 optimized and uses new ways to do fluid and cloth simulations that should speed up development time.