Valve have released a neat video clip showing off their leet skillz:

We are pleased to announce that the next generation of facial animation technology for Source will be released in Team Fortress 2. By leveraging the rapid pace of advancement in PC graphics, videogames can now match and actually surpass the facial animation used in feature film and broadcast television production. We've released a video of this real-time, in-game, in-engine facial animation in action in support of ATI's launch of the Radeon HD 2000 series. By running entirely on the GPU of the videocard, the facial animation not only looks dramatically better, but frees up the CPU to perform other tasks like physics or AI.

If you've got Steam you can watch it directly through the Steam client, or you can download it locally from AusGamers.

That video was awesome.

I'd nearly like to see a whole movie made based on TF2

Yeh it's pretty freakin' cool. It would be totally weird (and awesome) if they could somehow meld the facial animations with the VOIP parts so when you talk to your teammates, your character lipsyncs to what you're saying.

http://rocketsheep.com/tempp/human_head.wmv

nvideas new real time human texture technique

i f***ing love it.

cant wait to hold sasha in my arms.

Both of those videos are f***ing amazing...

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sif care about facial animation in a shooter...

Needs to hurry up FFS! Sick of waiting.

New comptuter time :(

will tf2 have a requirements bump as a result of this sort of s***?

i.e. will this require Dx9 capable cards?

Gawd that looks awesome

do u mean dx 10? i just cannot come to love the cartoony graphics.

do u mean dx 10? i just cannot come to love the cartoony graphics.

well i'm not sure if it will quite be a jump as big as that. But i wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't require some sort of decent amount of grunt to pull off.

I'm just curious because i'm in the market for a new card. And i'm also hoping that this will be playable under Wine

more like celda am i rite?

graj some more peans play some more?

here's to hoping the MSX boys don't f*** it up with hax like every other Valve game atm..


I am definately looking forward to playing it at lans though

msx who?

that looks really good,

after such a long wait for the next team fortress installment im really suprised by what valve are offering, (in a good way) and i cant wait to get my hands on it.

pm sent

hehe TF2 still looks as if they still have that quirky NOLF2 kind of humour happening and I like that a lot. Looking forward to playing it a lot also.

That Nvidia footage was very impressive to say the least...

*boner*

awesome, fricken awesome

theres tears in my eyes. looks so awsome. they got a great voice actor too.

who touched sasha?

hehe TF2 still looks as if they still have that quirky NOLF2 kind of humour happening and I like that a lot. Looking forward to playing it a lot also.

It won't run on your computer Psycho and besides the new rating system procludes anyone as old as you from owning a copy.

cry some more!!
mwhahahaha

nvideas new real time human texture technique

omgwtfbbq! for what they claim to be real-time, that is wicked!

wow the face in the nvidia vid looks almost real. would be freaky to see s*** like that in a game.

Oh man come out already, I have been hanging for a sweet fps multiplayer game of late... nothing has delivered recently.


They definately made the correct choice in steering away from realism imo.

s*** yeah! We need a good, fun mutliplayer game to come out. Hurry up TF2 you son-of-a-bitch!!

Duke Nukem Forever ?

Looks cool, there not gonna have that stupid concussion jumping s*** are they?

Looks cool, there not gonna have that stupid concussion jumping s*** are they?

s***? that was awsome in the original.

Duke Nukem Forever ?

I remember the in game vid they release a few years ago of that, it looked impressive at the time. Not sure if they have burried the project but they should have stuck with their original engine choice and got it out.

he's got a russian accent. bloody crazy russians.

Word on the street (if i remember correctly) is that they are taking out grenades as they think it makes the game to spammy.

TF isn't TF without conc-jumps and grenades!

Really? All grenades? Cos the TF2 trailer has a demo man using a cluster grenade and it looked really cool :(

I hope they were joking about the grenades. How else is a medic going to take out a fatty-no-skills?

I read it in some interview and they said they had grenades but after heaps of play testing said it played better without 'em. They also said people would be saying 'wtf' because grenades and secondary grenades were such a big part of TFC.

I believe only certain classes get grenades.

EDIT: Here we go

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when i think of duke nukem forever i imagine 2 fat nerds wearing 3drealms shirts sitting infront of computers loling at everyone

It really is great to see "Robin's baby" working over time.

Removal of the grenades was a gameplay issue due to the fact that the medic was not based on movement. The scout was the primary 'movement factor'. If you just gave the medic concussion grenades you would be over-riding the whole scout with speed thing.

That is why John Cook and Robin Walker removed the grenades. Sure its a revoluntionary elemental thing and a lot of old school TF players will complain about it but with all the server side modding that has been done over the years with MegaTF for TF and NeoTF for TFC it will be interesting to see how TF2 holds up.

A lot of the professional TFC (or TF players) will hate me for saying this, but somethings just have to be done. Classes in TFC have movement limits for various reasons. In many ways concussion jumping is a skill in it self. But TFC is not deathmatch. Its 'TEAM' Fortress for a reason and thusly its called "TF2" not TFC2 or TFC Source.

I am not disagreeing that the removal of the grenades is justified. BUT at the end of the day TF-anything is Robin's bitch. There have been people out of the TFC community that have said "Oh Robin didn't consult us." well. He did come to Melbourne for the Game Developers Conference in 2004 you could of asked him, then why he hasn't taken a deeper interest in the people who still actually play TFC (or TF).

But anyway... All my blathering a side. Love it or hate it. It is going to be VERY INTERESTING to see what if anything after 8 years of development TF2 is going to bring. Did we forget to mention 'dynamic maps' that modify the game flow. I think we did.

I am not disagreeing that the removal of the grenades is justified. BUT at the end of the day TF-anything is Robin's bitch. There have been people out of the TFC community that have said "Oh Robin didn't consult us." well. He did come to Melbourne for the Game Developers Conference in 2004 you could of asked him, then why he hasn't taken a deeper interest in the people who still actually play TFC (or TF).

To quote the HW guy, "Cry some more"

No Grenades...

GI: I was pretty surprised that you pulled grenades out. I was looking for grenades and they’re gone. There are no grenades outside of the Demoman's grenade launcher. That’s a pretty big deal.

Walker: So the grenades thing was something that just fell straight out of our philosophy of, we had some theory’s of why these are hurting us, we removed them as a playtest against many of our own objections. “We can’t do this!” and then within two days everyone was like, “Wow! This plays so much better without these.” The reasons we tried were things like grenades are 90% spam in the game so which we tend to think that spam is a negative.

They reduce class differentiation a lot and this was the key killer of what made us do it. If everyone is carrying around a grenade everyone has the same capabilities in that way. A Demoman with a grenade is the same as a Spy with a grenade. With grenades we’re reducing that sharp line of class differences.

The clans really don’t play Scout at all. They play Medic because the conc jump [ed: Concussion Grenade jumping] is the same so the Medic and the Conc is so much about the skill of using a Medic in TFC to capture flags. The conc itself invalidated the Scout itself. It just said, “don’t play me, this class is better.” When we removed those the lines between classes became stronger and more significant.

Source: http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200703/N07.0327.1745.51023.htm?Page=2

Cannot wait for this release...Man..between this and ETQW's..my holidays are set

Yeah its looking like a pretty sweet time (Q3) for PC games
- tf2/ep2/portal
- crysis
- quake wars
- left 4 dead
- hellgate london
- UT3
- Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

- Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

drools

No Concussion Grenades, that's awesome.

Only awesome if you were one of those people that couldn't conc jump

please, conc jumping took all of like 20 minutes to learn and at most a few days to get good at

don't pretend it was some sort of skill that sets the good TF players apart from the bad.

i'm really looking forward to this, i just hope i can run it on the lunix without having to install XP

I dont really care that grenades are gone, I just wanted them to be in there cos the demo man throwing his cluster grenade looked so cool in the trailer :(

At the end of the day though, its an entirely new game, its not like its a remake of the original TF like TFC was, so nothing says it has to be exactly the same game TF was (and tbh it'd be disappointing it if was, we've all played that, give us something new).

Tho having about 5 nail grenades going off at once in the middle of 2fort4 was always fun.

id like to see it in action, but i'm not sold on the no grens idea. Yes medic was used alot more in some instances but it depended on the map. The medic still has to run the flag back to the base anyway. Maybe they need to add new types of grens, medic shouldnt have cuss but scout should, gren 1 + pipe for demoman was lethal and should be kept and the pyro napalm was annoying as s*** but that suited the class because pyros are annoying as s*** anyway :)

Mmm sniper and well ftw.

Hope the sniper is more like it was in the original and TFC, and not like a CS style el lamo :/

It would be totally weird (and awesome) if they could somehow meld the facial animations with the VOIP parts so when you talk to your teammates, your character lipsyncs to what you're saying.

That was the impression i got from it, i mean, thats what i thought the whole thing was for?

edit - fixed - ventrilo playing with sound settings

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