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4 comments:

1. Kevin Bjorke on February 7th, 2007, at 12:38 pm:

   Given the open-sourcing of the SL client and its protocols, I wonder if it would be worthwhile for someone to just toss the llrenderer and use a commercial game engine instead — like Crytek’s, or Project Offset’s, or Unreal’s, or even some other open-source ones, which would all be perfectly capable of rendering SL prims but would add… well, so much. Shadows, for instance, or full-screen effects like bloom or even areas that are black and white (regardless of your avatar). Just a thought…..

2. anonymous on March 6th, 2008, at 2:10 pm:

   I would like to find out how they licensed it. Six figure licence fees for state of the art game engines tend to keep the architectural community from using them.

3. Paul Schuyler on June 10th, 2008, at 9:01 pm:

   For Architectural Visualization, Crytek is only interested in forming relationships with exclusive partners, presumably to charge huge license fees. They won’t even talk to you otherwise if you want to license their technology for use in arch vis. Probably in time they will go the way SGI did as a result of their “high brow” approach which caters only to exclusive partners with deep pockets. Haven’t they figured out yet that the entire video game industry is driven by the low end of the market? Its the volume, and the content that counts. Whoever caters to that reality will be there in the long run.

   The good news is that in time the technical advantage of Crytek 2 will filter to other, newer game engines with a more visionary approach to opening new market segments. I’m among many architects that would love to see a software package emerge which is designed to author visualization projects. Ideally, one day we will be able to author DVD’s to consoles as the ideal client presentation and networked VR medium. The technology exists today, just no one has the vision to exploit it.

4. Janet Smith on December 17th, 2008, at 9:24 am:

   No! certainly not just games. Architectural Visualisation can no longer be slated with mere games.

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