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richardhutnik on 29 May 2011
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osamanobama said:
richardhutnik said:
osamanobama said:

2) since DVD9 is being used by the xbox 360 this gen, and the max resolution a DVD movie can have is Standard Def, how does the xbox produce HD visuals? also even though in game visual can be HD, isnt it impossible for cinamatics/cgi cutscenes to be in HD for it? or am i wrong again about this? and if i am wrong how do they make the cutscenes in HD when movies cant be?

The most efficient  way to do cutscenes today, which also assists with the immersion factor, is to do it with the in game engine.  La Noire has done this.  Rockstar coulde of decided, "Let's do the game with the engine, but film live actors and show Full-motion video for the cutscenes".  Would that of been a better way to do it the old way, where the cut scenes were pre-canned and read off the disk?

thats not what i was asking.

also no, in in game, in engine cut scense doesnt make it better. i personally really like the cutscenes in GOW3, UC2, 1, and KZ3 (though not all of them are "pre-canned"). i dont understand the stigma some people have against these type of cutscenes. they act as if they some how arent as good/make the game worse is they use cgi.

For IMMERSION factor, using an in game engine is better.   Take an early scene from Metal Gear Solid on the PS3.  You have one weapon in your hand playing, then the cutscene shows you holding a different weapon.  The idea is to use the in game engine, even if it is run in maybe higher detail, in a context where it makes sense.  Uncharted 2 I believe also uses the in game engine for the cut scenes.  It doesn't use a different engine for rendering the game.  The idea is to also keep the art style the same, when doing the cut scenes and intro, so people are used to the game world.  If you go to filming actors live action, it doesn't work.

As I was saying, when you render the cut scenes with the engine, it uses less resources.  That is how you can fit cut scenes on a smaller disk.  If you decide to film them and stick them on a disk, then you get bloat.  Also, compression gets used a lot to.