THIS IS NOT GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE!

Alot of people are opening
Crysis, putting in the code
and expecting physics to run
smoothly like in the video, it
won't (unless you have such an
uber beast but I don't think a
machine available now could do
this amount of stuff at
30fps).

It's for rendering a video
with capture_frame
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THIS IS NOT GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE!

Alot of people are opening
Crysis, putting in the code
and expecting physics to run
smoothly like in the video, it
won't (unless you have such an
uber beast but I don't think a
machine available now could do
this amount of stuff at
30fps).

It's for rendering a video
with capture_frames, actual
gameplay will be extremely low
frames per second,
capture_frames isn't affected
by low fps but the physics
having their own framerate
do.

The song is 'Aberdeen City -
Pretty Pet', I've recently
checked them out after having
an urge to listen to their
song 'God Is Going To Get Sick
Of Me' that's in Saint's Row
and I started listening to
their other stuff and I really
like them.

Due to popular demand, I'll
post my specs but they only
really effect the very first
clip showing sys_physics_CPU 1
and how many boxes total I can
render, which unfortunately
limited the last clip.

So, my system specs are: Intel
Core 2 Duo 4300 (1.8GHz)
processor, overclocked to
2.2GHz, 2GB 800MHz RAM, Nvidia
512mb 7900GS GPU (DX9).

I get a Windows Vista base
score of 5.1, RAM and CPU
being the 5.1, HDD transfer
rate at 5.5 and GPU at 5.8 for
gaming, 5.9 for Aero.

But system specs will only
change the speed of capturing
it if you were to do this, the
rendered video will be at
whatever framerate you set to
record and playback at.

Thanks to 'poomuckel' from the
Crymod forums for inspiring me
to make this video/render lots
of physical interactions by
making the giant robot looking
thing made from boxes that he
posted on page 4 of his
'Physis' map thread
(http://www.crymod.com/thread.
php?thread id=10448) which is
also pretty fun.

I used the very high settings
tweak for DX9
(http://www.megaupload.com/?d=
PPVQWWZ3) and the commands I
used ontop of that for this
were:

sys_physics_CPU 0
fixed_time_step 0.033333
e_particles 0 (all those
particles when a box would
collide with something killed
my GPU)
r_motionblur 4 (need the very
high tweak if on DX9)
r_useEdgeAA 2
r_displayinfo 0 (get rid of
the white text when in
devmode/sandbox)
cl_hud 0
capture_frames 1 (to take a
screenshot at every frame so
you can add them all together
to make a smooth motioned
video).

And the motion of the boxes
was done by tornadoes made
invisible due to particles
being disabled. The settings
where changed around though
such as in some clips there
was no rotation.

But there was one clip that
used a 'GravityVolume' found
in Misc in objects in the
rollup bar.

Yes, there is still some
physics lag when
sys_physics_CPU is set to 0,
but it's SOOOO much smoother
than if set at 1 when there's
that many physical
interactions going on and I
think it's an actual physics
engine problem where they can
lock when colliding, they
can't get past what's infront
of them rather than it
actually lagging like when
it's set to 1. If there was
nothing in the way of a moving
object, it won't lag on 0 but
can on 1.

The last clip wasn't anywhere
near as massive as I wanted it
to be, unfortunately my GPU
couldn't handle rendering all
the boxes when I doubled the
amount of what is shown in the
video so I left it as that
rather than trying to find an
actual limit of what it could
handle incase it needs power
to render the motion blur and
stuff.

Higher quality versions:
Stage6:
http://www.stage6.com/user/Nei
llithan...
(thanks to
http://www.youtube.com/Neillit
han for this)

Filefront:
http://files.filefront.com/Cry
sis+Mas...

If you want to upload it
elsewhere yourself, please
inform me with a message so I
can add the link to it here.

I PANT3RA I approves of this
video.

Category Entertainment

Tags Crysis, , Physics, Pre, Rendering, capture_frames, sys_physics_CPU, Video, Games