Crysis 2 screenshot? (must see)

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HappySqurriel said:

Slimebeast said:

^ No Squirrel.

From the photograph in the OP, it's detail level is so high that you can see the ground surface/rubble is not a texture, u could not simulate that with a flat texture.

And the grass and rest of the foilage is even more detailed. Impossible to render before 2015. And even more impossible to design and develop.

Its called a procedural texture using perlin noise, and is completely possible using hardware as old as an Geforce 3 ...

Still to get detailed displacements from a procedural material like shown here would require some massive tessellation on the ground plane so it would be up around ~2million polys.  Character models for todays games are around 40,000.