Amazing Bluerose 3D engine on the GBA...

Jason1 · 03-12-2002, 09:12 PM

I found this at PGC

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News Date: 03/12/2002
Source: Rayight Studios
Link: http://www.raylight.it/blueroses.htm
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Check out the first pics and video of this amazing polygon-crunching engine for Game Boy Advance!

Rayight Studios, a developer in Italy currently working on Wings for Crawfish Interactive and a space-sim called Star Giants, has revealed a remarkable new polygonal 3D graphics engine called BlueRoses for the GBA.

The company has screenshots and video of the engine on their website (link above). The demos are presumably just for show, but they do cover some major genres: rally racing, flight sim, futuristic racing, and even survival horror!

According to the spec sheet at the website, the engine is capable of:

- Thousands of polygons in a single scene
- More than 3000 polygons per second with a 60% of screen coverage. (Note this performance are computed in an average situation of playing, - also considering input, AI and the needed processes for a game!)
- Motion capture animation
- Affine texture mapping
- Camera animation
- Skeletal animation
- Skinned characters
- Particle systems
- Texture animation support
- Possibility to mix 2d and 3d together having 3d polygonal scene with custom 3d sprite technologies already used in our current projects

...just to name a few. There's no word on when the first games made with BlueRoses will show up on the market, but we're trying to obtain more information on that and everything else pertaining to this technology.

Thanks to Chris Mayer for the tip!

Yoda9864 · 03-12-2002, 10:24 PM

I am totally speechless. Wow! If those pictures ran at a decent framerate, that would totally rock.

::goes and wets his pants again::

Gamer · 03-12-2002, 11:18 PM

mmmmmmmmmm, i hope games with those types of graphics are released, especially if they run smoothly.

GameMaster · 03-12-2002, 11:45 PM

Man those are sweet upcoming GameCube games. Oops! Silly me. I forgot those are just really nice Gameboy Advance screenshots. It's hard to tell isn't it?

Gambit_X · 03-13-2002, 08:17 AM

If you download the videos (and I think they are playable tech demos) you'll see that they run at at least 15 FPS.

Joeiss · 03-13-2002, 10:07 AM

Beauty pictures. I cannot wait until these games are released.

What? 15 FPS??? What are normal GBA games running at?

Ric · 03-13-2002, 10:57 AM

Whoa.... gerrrrovy

BTW the videos all run on Quick Time (unfortunatly)
Number 1 = 550kb - focus agb. (Ford Focus)
Number 2 = 199kb - foreign angel. (RE type thing)
Number 3 = 519kb - fly. (flight, theres a helicopter too)
Number 4 = 1.75mb - warpout. (wipeout rip off)

Anyway hope that helps if u wanna dl.

Right then, I must say they all look pretty damn good, the warpout video was a little jumpy and showed a lot of pop up but I am guessing the technology can be imperoved further. Still this is good news, I just wonder how quickly games like this would guzzle batteries though.

Good find Jason1 you earned yourself a cacti beer, on me.

EDIT: Just testing, if this works you can drink this too.

EDIT 2: Darn white background... meh

Shadow_Link · 03-14-2002, 03:57 PM

*Drools*

Ric · 03-15-2002, 09:09 AM

Well I tried to get some more screens for you guys buuuuuuuuuuut, quick time is so crap that I cant and it buggers up when I print screen. Mate would I like to shoot the guy who created it, why cant everyone just use windows media player.

Shadow_Link · 03-15-2002, 12:38 PM

I was playing tenchu last night on the PSX, and I thought to myself, the GBA could get pretty close to those type of screens, especially after looking at this screen

If you have played tenchu, you would know that after looking at the screen above, it would be pretty possible. You can see texture and light maps, and there's atleast 3 characters on screen (with one character on screen mostly), which is pretty much like what tenchu is like.

Ric · 03-15-2002, 03:04 PM

Yeah I agree, and unlike tenchu it isnt all black in the background.

BTW; Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins is better IMO.

GameMaster · 03-15-2002, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ric
Well I tried to get some more screens for you guys buuuuuuuuuuut, quick time is so crap that I cant and it buggers up when I print screen. Mate would I like to shoot the guy who created it, why cant everyone just use windows media player.

Quicktime is much better than WMP. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. You're computer is probably just screwed. I refuse to download Windows Media Player because everything on the web is Quicktime. Err, I'm mad.

Ric · 03-16-2002, 01:18 PM

There is absolutely nothing wrong with my PC whatsoever, it's just that, quicktime is crap.
And not everything is quicktime if you download from a source such as morpheus.

Shadow_Link · 03-16-2002, 07:30 PM

Ric is right, quicktime is really crap.

Joeiss · 03-16-2002, 10:24 PM

They are both crap. Why? Because my computer is crap, and half the time videos don't even work, on Quick Time, or Windows Media Playa.