Rugby League Live 2

Brooke Hodgman · 2013-01-24T04:06:34

These images are from an upcoming "low budget" (i.e. not EA, Activision, 2K, Ubisoft, etc...) Australian sports game for PS3/360. The graphics programming behind them was done by forum member "Digital", myself and our great tech-artist "Lived". Our goal was to basically take the previous graphics pipeline and "make it next gen, like FIFA". Hopefully we've succeeded in reaching a good 360/PS3 standard of quality. The main features in the image that contribute to the kind of "cartoon hyperrealism" art-direction are: * Physically-based BRDF's * HDR tonemapping (photographic/filmic) * a lot of post-processing ...which turned out to be a challenge to implement at 30FPS on ~6 year old DX9c/SM3 GPUs! But we did stumble onto some novel optimisations along the way that hopefully we can share at some point. P.S. If there's any experienced graphics-programmers or tech-artists reading this, who want to work on this kind of technology in Australia's best city, Melbourne, then get in contact with me [hr] N.B. the usual disclaimer: Any views expressed are my own, and aren't endorsed by the publisher or developer. The publisher, Tru Blu is responsible for releasing information about the game, so I can't share any information beyond what they've already made public. I'm re-posting these images from their Facebook. If anyone has any technical questions, I'll probably have to get permission before answering, but I'll try. If you want news from the horse's mouth, head to TruBlu on facebook, and if you're a Rugby League fan then some Australian retailers are taking pre-orders Click here to view the iotd

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Started by Hodgman July 20, 2012 06:35 AM

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Hodgman

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July 24, 2012 07:31 AM

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Good critique InvalidPointer

As Digital said, we would've loved to have more time to iterate on hair and sweat. Sweat turned out to be hard to balance, and yes the hair BRDF is very, very simple. Something for next time ;-)

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UltimaX

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July 25, 2012 02:14 AM

You guys are amazing. Great job!

kubera

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July 31, 2012 09:03 AM

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mrbastard

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July 31, 2012 07:26 PM

Really nice, hope you guys are proud!

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crivens

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January 23, 2013 02:29 PM

I'm late to the game but this looks amazing. Any chance you can write a good, realistic Rugby union game! :)

Hodgman

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January 24, 2013 04:06 AM

I'm late to the game but this looks amazing. Any chance you can write a good, realistic Rugby union game!

Thanks.

I personally don't have control over what games the studio makes ;)

The way it went last round, was that the publisher Tru Blu got the rights to make a Leauge and a Union game, and they got Sidhe to do the Union one, and Big Ant (where I was working) to do this League one.

AFAIK, Sidhe are pretty much stepping out of the console developer realm because their mobile arm, Pik Pok is doing so well, so I don't think they'll be making any console sports games going forward. At the moment, Big Ant are working on a cricket game for consoles, and it's impossible to say what their future plans are ;)

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