Comment Report from Siggraph (Score 1) 308
Just got back from work where I took off the first part of the day to visit Siggraph. There are two places where they are running the real time rendering of Final Fantasy the Movie. One is at Squaresoft's booth, which I didn't have time to check out unfortunately, and the other at Nvidia's booth, which I did check out. Among the FF movie they were giving out free passes for In and Out food which they served today and will serve again on Wednesday from 5:30-7:30 PM (in case anyone else is there and is hungry) and the best bag for your haul of swag (visit there first!). Of course they had the assorted booklets and brochures there as well.
About Final Fantasy the movie, it was definitely in real time (I saw someone moving around light sources), didn't try it personally to see if you could change the perspective) and included footage of Aki Ross and Dr. Cid talking to each other, I'd say about 3 minutes of footage. 2.4 FPS is way off the mark (were they rendering it at a higher resolution or with more lights?) for the speed when I saw it, I'd say it was running at somewhere between 5-7 FPS. It appeared that they were doing it at about 800x600 resolution (couldn't get really terribly close, too big of a crowd when
The texture maps appeared a bit simplified compared to the movie, but never the less blew everything else I saw away. It's a hell of a new chip they made.
About Final Fantasy the movie, it was definitely in real time (I saw someone moving around light sources), didn't try it personally to see if you could change the perspective) and included footage of Aki Ross and Dr. Cid talking to each other, I'd say about 3 minutes of footage. 2.4 FPS is way off the mark (were they rendering it at a higher resolution or with more lights?) for the speed when I saw it, I'd say it was running at somewhere between 5-7 FPS. It appeared that they were doing it at about 800x600 resolution (couldn't get really terribly close, too big of a crowd when
The texture maps appeared a bit simplified compared to the movie, but never the less blew everything else I saw away. It's a hell of a new chip they made.
