New tech for Force Unleashed 2

One of my good friends is the Associate Producer on the Force Unleashed 2 so I hunt for info on it from time-to-time (I'm not a Star Wars fan myself)... This article has been out for awhile but many of you probably never saw it.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-force-unleashed-60fps-tech-article

It's basically a new technique that the new Star Wars game uses to do (simulated) 60fps and motion blur.

Basically once the next frame is rendered and in the buffer it interpolates the existing frame and the buffered frame and injects the interpolated frame in between the 2. The interpolated frame is naturally rendered with blur.

So what you end up with is a game that only has to render 30 frames per second, but hits the screen as 60 fps with motion blur and uses less system resources than rendering at 60 or doing software motion blur.

Pretty interesting, hopefully we'll see more games make use of this. Castlevania sure could have used this trick.

No one has any thoughts on this?

I bet if I had posted a video of a dog pooping it would have had 100 replies by now.

I've never really understood game technology too well and I'm not much of a tech guy, but I sure do understand dogs pooping

That's pretty bad ass. I like the ingenuity people are forced to come up with to get better looking games on consoles.

This is really awesome tech because you can have the detail of a 30fps game but with the smoothness of a 60fps game.

The smoothness of 60fps and motion blur. I guess this is the first game to use it but I bet we see alot more of this in the future.

Halo Reach uses something similar

Chewy wrote:Halo Reach uses something similar

No it doesn't at least it does not look like it does.

Sounds pretty slick. Can't wait to see it in action.