New Xenoblade 2 gameplay

[Nuvendil]

curl-6 said:

Nuvendil said:

Check the video at 35:40 and the closeup at 41:42.  Also check the E3 stream at 11:30.  The grass is made up of multiple bisecting planes like in Skyrim, Fallout 4, Witcher 3, Final Fantasy XV, and so on.  In the E3 build they had some billboards mixed in but those seem to have been dropped.  

The water is harder to see with the stream quality but I'm 90% sure it's more accurate.  XCX used pretty basic cube-maps.  

And that change in grass techniques is a pretty drastic leap in demand for the hardware.  And the trees being of the poly count they are is also a significant improvement over what you see with, say, the trees in Primordia which are quite basic.

Right now, improvements beyond polycounts and lighting are hard to judge cause the videos are a bit muddy.  The architecture of the city seen here though definitely has more texture detail than NLA.  We'll have to see how it all comes together, but I'm very optimistic about the games technical prowess. 

Still can't really see it, tried blowing up the video to full screen but it's just too murky. Some good quality, full screen, direct feed footage would be a godsend right now.

Well, for grass I think that if you pause this video at 3:09:30, you can see the meshes pretty clearly:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NerM3G1-d0Y&t=12119s

If you look at the grass right behind the feet of that tiger/lion blade, you can see the grass is made of bisecting planes.