Mythic to License EMotion FX 2 engine

[cHodAX]

Found the following on Ve3d ;


FAIRFAX, VA - March 24, 2004 - Mythic Entertainment, developer and publisher of the award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game "Dark Age of Camelot," today announced that it will use EMotion FX 2 in all current and future games as the next step in the evolution of the player experience.
"We look forward to adding the EMotion FX 2 engine to our games" said Mark Jacobs, president and CEO of Mythic Entertainment. "This great piece of technology will both save time and add features to our games that will make them even better."

"Our clients use EMotion FX 2 to improve the realism and believability of their game characters to a level that gamers have never experienced before," said John van der Burg, President of Mystic Game Development. "Since the recent release of EMotion FX 2, we have had a growing number of game developer and software tool companies license our product. In this case, we are delighted to announce that Mythic Entertainment will be using Emotion FX 2 to bring gamers an enhanced gaming experience."



Seems like we can expect another graphic engine upgrade at some point, either Frontiers or the next expansion pack. Anyway, I managed to dig up the folllowing link which has a nice rundown on the engine's features.

http://www.mysticgd.com/protomgd2004/features.html

[cHodAX]

Support for hardware shaders would be most welcome, can see some serious framerate and quality improvements by switching that on with a DX9 card.

[Archeon]

Wonder if we'll finally get more Customisable Characters? Though I suppose the problem with that is existing characters, what they gonna do?

Merchent: Ahh yes sir, I see you have one of those Body Respec stones. Yes, I can use this to make a potion which can change your physical appearances... Dropped off the Dragon you say? Well fancy that.

Don't ask why, but the little trumpetting 'Wap-Wap-Wap-Wap-Waaaaaaap' slapstick thingie pops into my head when I think of that

[Blood]

it will nodoubt be another paid upgrade.. prolly bubblewrapped in class & realm unbalances & loaded with bugs

me bitter? naa.. i just lost faith

[Skeggi]

So really, what does this mean in English?

This will increase my fps? Or does it mean: get a new gfx card and it will increase your fps?

[XeffoInfil]

yeah, what skeggi said. does this mean the game will be incompatible with like other cards now or what>_< im confused

[Sarnat]

It's an engine for character animation. So expect better emotes like /salute etc. and other character movement, running, fighting, swimming and what not. Most likely it will show more on the development side though. It will be easier for the devs to create character animation.

And no, it wont need anything special from your computer AFAIK, nor improve your fps etc.

[Cyradix]

All my new chars are going to be female now

http://www.mysticgd.com/protomgd2004/screenshots.html

[Jaem-]

Originally Posted by Cyradix

All my new chars are going to be female now

http://www.mysticgd.com/protomgd2004/screenshots.html

Holly cow, are these the same quality of models that will be in DAoC if they add this?

[Archeon]

Nice facial range, all the way from...

Angry

to

Pissed off

to

I'm Horny

to

Put it away before I feed it to my dog.

I still stand by the Character respec stone idea though.

[Korax]

Originally Posted by Jaem-

Holly cow, are these the same quality of models that will be in DAoC if they add this?

I can imagine that Mythic are going to redo alot of models both mobs and all the races (esp. the classic ones) and add this to it. Or mabye they are gonna make a new game? :O

[Haruh]

Might not be for DAoC at all you know. They're developing Imperator too.

[cHodAX]

Originally Posted by Haruh

Might not be for DAoC at all you know. They're developing Imperator too.

Says existing and new games in the press release.

[Pogel]

EQ did this with their Shadows of Luclin expansion. The new engine included a whole new set of character models and an in-game (or was it at start-up, can't recall) tool to change your facial features/hair/etc. Was fun. They also supported all th eold models in case you didn't like the new ones (in fact you could choose which races had new/old models as a gfx performance thing).

Be warned though - the new stuff ran horribly slow when it was first released

[Asharith]

I love new gfx , but daoc doesnt seem the game for this tbh . Its already very slow at raids and new character models wont help .