Well, it is in no way comparable with the tech and details of crysis
I also hope that that isn´t the best possible setup for shadows, because those are much worse than what I already realized with gamestudio.
It features only few models, some strange brightness adjusting(?), a boring water shader and strange caustics. Nice is the LOD of the trees. But the trees are missing at least some basic normalmapping and where are the softbodies? Technically, it is actually quite boring and nothing fancy at all. But it shows well, how nice assets can make things look good.

3dgs shall not die. yes the new features are quite dull, but if you are happy with 3dgs then you should use 3dgs. o need to put it even further down the food chain.

come on guys....

regards,
michael

Of course it is not. Grass is missing, there are no buildings, no vehicles, no decals on terrain for wheel trails or other details.

But still this terrain looks good is huge, there are islands visible at the see and it renders fast.

It is huge, but has only few polygons and a very lowres texture. Just move a bit away from the start position and find out, that there is just one ugly lowres texture and a choppy terrain
The original island demo is much more impressive.

Since we talked about big terrains, here is a really big one with tons of foliage rendered in the Leadwerks engine:
http://www.youtube.com/user/pure3dviz

I believe that Unity and Leadwerks will attract a lot of people at the GDC while it will be harder for competition like Garage Games or Terathon with their old-school demos.

i hate trees popping up infront of me

Did you also see this WIP project featuring a fantasy setting?
http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=38963



It constantly gets extended and there's a video of one of its versions:
[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svH6_fKULvw[/video]

You also can "play" it in the browser:
http://game.irilys.eu/olivier/zone01.html

I think it's very nice and it'll be interesting to see the final version which is supposed to also include stuff like animals walking around and so on. It "just" uses the free Indie version btw...

man i cant wait until i start creating my levels for scion so i cant try to compete with these videos am seeing, somehow i have a feeling i can do it all quite easily, or maybe am just underestimating them.. then again, i do notice that these arent just scenes but huge landscapes.. so, who knows, would take some time to set up

@DarkInferno :
That's the difference, you will put lot more time than Unity, caus you 'll have to use different editors.
In Unity , all tools are in the editors : you can edit anything directly, paint terrain ,deform it, import a model all incredibly easily : that's the difference of workflow.

But if you can create something outstanding in A7 , cool
Impress us !

actually... i just started something, giving myself... hmmm, say about 5 hours to see what i can get, i'll vid and post my results soon, wish me luck

and remember i truly am just gonna start, so.. we'll see