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Project Milo footage looks stunning

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Published 21 March, 2011 Duration 2:09

Lionhead shows canned game's engine.

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tossum #1 1 year ago

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Dear Lionhead: you know you've got this engine that does great cliffs and lakes and trees and stuff, can you please use it to make a new Magic Carpet game? Thanks.
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Spydy #2 1 year ago

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Stunning?
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DozyKipper #3 1 year ago

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It's not canned - it will be out for the Xbox 720.
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smelly #4 1 year ago

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vapourware
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RodHull #5 1 year ago

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That does look mighty impressive, even more so if they got Kinect working on it what with it eating a significant chunk of the 360's resources.
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dadrester #6 1 year ago

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see... I don't think it looks that good. Certainly nothing special compared with what other current engines are doing. However, as soon as you show something recognisable and everyday, like the sitting room in that video, I think the familiarity kind of adds to it. So you look at it and think "wow.... that really does look like a sitting room"... the cliff sections on the other hand look... well pretty average when compared to, even something like From Dust.
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telboy007 #7 1 year ago

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I love looking at stuff I'll never be able to play, it's the best!
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Darren #8 1 year ago

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Looks good so how come Lionhead's own 360 games look so shite then?

Or is that engine running on the Xbox 360's successor because the detail, lack of aliasing and absence of screen tear suggest it isn't a 360!
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cynical #9 1 year ago

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Looks incredible, I really hope you get to implement this tech (or some advanced version of it) in a future title
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crab #10 1 year ago

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Where are the greys and browns I have become accustomed to?
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up_the_ante #11 1 year ago

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Looks like a new 3DMark
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Freek #12 1 year ago

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Keep in mind this was designed for a game where you have only one character on screen in fairly enclosed spaces. They can go nutts with the detail in those situations, but the avarage game has more going on then that.

Edited by Freek at 21/03/11 @ 18:03
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davisorle #13 1 year ago

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Ror1984 #14 1 year ago

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Hopefully the fact that Milo & Kate has been canned won't mean that any of the tech they developed will never see the light of day, because this looks really impressive.

More detail:

[link url=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/294526/news/xbox-360s-bright-future-how-milo-kate-handles-billions-of-polygons/
]http://www.computerandvideogames.com/294...[/link]

"Regarding the video, Sugden has qualified it was "running on a stock Xbox 360 at 30fps - although the video capture has made things look choppy". He added that the tech "is totally viable on either an Xbox or a PS3"."

I'm sure DF will take a look at this and do a write-up.

Edited by Ror1984 at 21/03/11 @ 18:37
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StooMonster #15 1 year ago

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Why's it in 4:3 aspect ratio and not 16:9?
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yagisencho #16 1 year ago

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Love the attention to detail in the environment models. They feel like real spaces, especially the sitting room and garden. Here's hoping the tech lives on...
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CaptainQuint #17 1 year ago

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Looks nice, but I don't get why everyone is so impressed with an engine which is required to do little more than allow heavily scripted NPC animations with virtually zero levels of player manipulation and interaction. It's like Rebel Assault with Fable stylings.
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Der_tolle_Emil #18 1 year ago

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Keep in mind this was designed for a game where you have only one character on screen in fairly enclosed spaces. They can go nutts with the detail in those situations, but the avarage game has more going on then that.

That is what I was going to say as well. It does look very nice but it's hardly an engine designed to render huge scenes with tons of stuff going on. With almost static scenes and little to no AI of course it will look better in plain comparisons.

I don't want to sound all negative though because it really does look quite nice and I'd love to see this put to good use at some point.
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raloB #19 1 year ago

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Whilst Milo & Kate might be canned, maybe these 'mega meshes' will be shown during this years Lionhead E3 reveal.
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zedzee #20 1 year ago

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I really don't get the obsession with Milo by EG and Lionhead. Face the facts that it's been canned. Let's not waste any more space and effort on this and move on.
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Batfink #21 1 year ago

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After reading the explanation of the technology, i am very impressed. This really frees the artists up to produce a detailed, hand-made environment with no restrictions on mesh density or texture mapping. Megatexture and megageometry. Useless for highly dynamic worlds, but for this sort of painterly look it's unbeatable.
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Sgt_Petter #22 1 year ago

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Those cliff sides just looked... odd. I can't say I've seen something like that before in real life. It's just sticking out in so many weird places, which would be okay if the surface was way rougher with sharper edges, but it just looks semi-smooth in such an odd way.
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thesonglessbird #23 1 year ago

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Consider me a skeptic.
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sport #24 1 year ago

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voxels or GTFO!
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The-Bodybuilder #25 1 year ago

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Nice place, but where's the the dungeon where little Milo would be imprisoned?

What? Too soon?

Edited by The-Bodybuilder at 21/03/11 @ 22:33
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orangpelupa #26 1 year ago

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use Milo tech into Black and White 3 "pets" and i will be happy
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solidSnake04 #27 1 year ago

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how is that stunning ? i wont call it that till i know whats NATAL doing exactly
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tulx #28 1 year ago

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"That does look mighty impressive, even more so if they got Kinect working on it what with it eating a significant chunk of the 360's resources."

Frederic Blais, Kinect expert at Ubisoft, said that consumption of this device as the data processing power of the Xbox 360 is less than 1%, so virtually no effect on the graphics capabilities of the console.

Edited by tulx at 22/03/11 @ 08:29
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superflyninja #29 1 year ago

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black and white.....magic carpet...wow. id forgotten about these.we MUST have sequels.
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BadBoyBonner #30 1 year ago

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A Magic Carpet update using Kinect seems a no brainer - certainly as an XBLA title.
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geeza2020 #31 1 year ago

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awesome. wheres the game?
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LOLLERS #32 1 year ago

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@The Bodybuilder - Clearly that shed leads to a terrifying series of Fritzl-style underground cells...
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smirny #33 1 year ago

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I liked the snail... there's not enough snails in games I feel.
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Porcupine_I #34 1 year ago

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that is simply AWFUL!
i mean look at the room! it's too small, no place for a big screen TV and too much sun anyway. also impossible to play kinect games!

and what is with that boat? it's all broken and stuff!
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ronuds #35 1 year ago

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Someone said something looks stunning. I'd better run into the comments section and tell everyone why it's not stunning, before it's too late!!!
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Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #36 1 year ago

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That does look stunning. I'm still gutted they canned Milo, it looked amazing.
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