Baron Haussmann CryEngine 0.5.0 Tech Demo Impressions

<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"6GIwU5N2jmY" title&equals;"Baron Haussmann CryEngine 0&period;5&period;0 Tech Demo Impressions"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;6GIwU5N2jmY"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;6GIwU5N2jmY&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Baron Haussmann CryEngine 0&period;5&period;0 Tech Demo Impressions"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>CryEngine used to produce some of the worlds &&num;8220&semi;best&&num;8221&semi; looking video games to date&comma; now I put best in quotes because it is used as a subjective term and can mean different things to different people&period; Without a shadow of a doubt this <strong>playable demo<&sol;strong> created by Synce&comma; an intern developer who works with the CryEngine&comma; is by far one of the best looking demos&sol;games I have ever seen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Obviously&comma; you have to realize that the demo is just that a demo&comma; a demo of some newly designed technology called SVOTI which stands for Sparse Voxel Octree Total Illumination&&num;8230&semi; granted I have no idea what this means but it sounds cool&period; Synce states&comma; <strong>&&num;8220&semi;This system can achieve high quality global illumination in real time&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong> which means that the lighting within the seen acts more realistically within the playable world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To install this demo simply go to the <strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cryengine&period;com&sol;community&sol;viewtopic&period;php&quest;f&equals;309&amp&semi;t&equals;131523" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">CryEngine community page<&sol;a><&sol;strong> and read the instructions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&&num;8220&semi;-Extract the &period;rar<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>-Go into the Bin64 folder and launch BaronHaussmann&period;exe<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>-Enjoy the visit<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>-Press TAB for more options<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>If it is the first time you use Cryengine&comma; make sure you installed the <a class&equals;"postlink" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;docs&period;cryengine&period;com&sol;display&sol;SDKDOC2&sol;Getting&plus;Started&plus;with&plus;CRYENGINE" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">redistributable package and DirectX<&sol;a>&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You can also play around with some cool options such as&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&&num;8220&semi;&lbrack;TAB&rsqb; Hide&sol;Unhide options<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>&lbrack;1&rsqb; GI is disabled<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>&lbrack;2&rsqb; Diffuse GI mode with 1 bounce&period; A complete lighting voxel based mode replace the default lighting of the engine&period; This mode is a bit more expensive but offers a great visual quality&period; Speculars are done with cubemaps&period;<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>&lbrack;3&rsqb; Diffuse GI mode with 2 bounces&period; This is currently the default lighting mode of the demo&period; Is expensive but offers the best quality&period;<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>&lbrack;4&rsqb; Full GI mode&comma; diffuse and specular&period; Disabled for the moment&period; Could be reactivate in a future release&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&lbrack;Right clic&rsqb; and &lbrack;Left clic&rsqb; to change the time of day<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>&lbrack;Middle clic&rsqb; Reset the time of day to 13&period;00<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>&lbrack;E&rsqb; Zoom&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These settings allow the player to really experience this new tech with everything it offers&comma; not going to pretend that I know what half of the options do but it is cool to have a little fiddle around&period; If you don&&num;8217&semi;t want to download it you can watch my video impressions on the tech used above&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It will be cool to see how this new SVOTI tech makes it&&num;8217&semi;s way into CryEngine based games&period; What do you guys think&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cryengine&period;com&sol;community&sol;viewtopic&period;php&quest;f&equals;309&amp&semi;t&equals;131523" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">CryEngine Community<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;