Chris Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 The news comes after it was announced that Rockstar Games became the second licensee to utilise NaturalMotion's euphoria technology. A short excerpt from the press release spells out the facts: Oxford, UK-Feb 27 2007- NaturalMotion today announced a partnership with Rockstar Games, Inc., the world-renowned publishing label, to integrate NaturalMotion's revolutionary euphoria engine into upcoming next-generation Rockstar Games titles. Rockstar's integration of euphoria is well advanced, with today's announcement following several months of close collaboration between the two companies.Announcements regarding specific titles will follow at a later date. It's important to note that as of yet no specific titles have been confirmed, though it appears we'll be getting seperate announcements on those in the near future. Whether or not "several months" of collaboration is enough for Rockstar to have been using this, after all there are only 10 months until the release of the game, it should be very interesting to see this technology used. This paragraph of text should help to explain why this is quite exciting news: Based on NaturalMotion's DMS technology, euphoria uses the processing power of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 to simulate the human body and motor nervous system, thus creating fully interactive game characters that act differently every time. With euphoria, games move away from canned animation, towards a much richer, life-like experience that is unique to the player. So essentially, you shouldn't see the same movements twice from characters, it will always be different just like in real life. It would certainly make for some very interesting game experiences. We may also see this technology used in some of Rockstar's other upcoming games such as LA Noire. Links: NaturalMotion Press Release (pdf) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyr0man1ac Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Wow... this is going to be amazing if they use this in the game. I can't wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K9 Krew Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 YES.... This means the game will be the best thing ever IMO, Thank you Chris for this news update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2003 Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Nice graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroScorpion Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Thank you Chris in one way in another now I can't sleep, man. I can't wait, when is beta version out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gycu Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Great news.I already posted this info yesterday on another GTA4 topic but only 1 person read-it.What it means that the player movement will always different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gycu Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Sorry 4 duoble posting.I just foun what this Natural Motion can do. I think it`s good,infact it`s damn amazing!!!.Check`it out ,it`s a must see video if you want to compare it with GTA4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriaan Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 While we were all thinking that Rockstar were using their in-house RAGE technology in GTA4, it turns out this may not be the case after all. euphoria is not a game engine in one, it's basically just an add-on or plugin, like Alias' Motion Builder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroScorpion Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Plugin in or not it's still greate. I'm not sure is this real game screenshot but if GTA 4 gona look like this I can't say nothing anymore. Gta 4 And its look like GTA 4 will be in London Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted February 28, 2007 Author Share Posted February 28, 2007 Sorry 4 duoble posting.I just foun what this Natural Motion can do. I think it`s good,infact it`s damn amazing!!!.Check`it out ,it`s a must see video if you want to compare it with GTA4. Well that's showing off endorphin, which is a different product, though I'd imagine they're using the same engine anyway, so it's a nice demonstration. Plugin in or not it's still greate.I'm not sure is this real game screenshot but if GTA 4 gona look like this I can't say nothing anymore. Gta 4 And its look like GTA 4 will be in London You're not sure? Are you new to the whole GTA thing or something? Those are all fakes, some are even stolen from this site. It's not even a trailer it's just a slideshow of fake screens, and you fell for that? Wow. Anyway yes this is great news, GTA4 is going to have some awe-inspiring graphics and physics by the looks of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott. Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Thanks for the update Chris. Once again I'll say your the best person for gaming info. What would we do without Chris?!?!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroScorpion Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Listen to him, gta Players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DareDevilX Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Thanks Chris,amazing news really.It seems like GTA IV is gonna rock! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM™ Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Yeah, GTA4 gonna be great, atleast for it's graphics ofcourse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciaran Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 GTA:4 will be the best and great work on finding this, best info so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harwood Butcher Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I saw this on PlanetGTA yesterday, but they got the news from someone else. Seems like pretty kick ass stuff. Rockstar might be going all out on GTAIV. Much like what they did when they went from topdown to 3D with GTAIII. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.J. Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 A that endophorin shit is vicious. So every action of the character is going to be different. Damn, I can't wit for GTA IV to come. I'ma probably beat it in a week because I'm not gonna sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tilly Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) OMG! are they really gunna use it?!?!? IVE been wishing for this forever!! you can see that i wrote like 200 posts on the wishlist about euphoria physics. You should see the freeroam running animation, it looks so real! wow i just looked back at my posts, and it seems like what i sed was like telling the future! zomgzwtflol! Edited March 1, 2007 by tilly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroScorpion Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Endophorin stuff will make game very less boring and game will give a lot more fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Little late on this, but this looks awesome. This is about forcing me to buy a 360. I really don't want to wait a year untill I can finally play it. Nice graphics. This doesn't have anything directly to do with graphics... Sorry 4 duoble posting.I just foun what this Natural Motion can do. I think it`s good,infact it`s damn amazing!!!.Check`it out ,it`s a must see video if you want to compare it with GTA4. I don't think GTA IV will have it that good, somehow. But it looks great. And will require lot's of power to for PC's, that is if it ever get's a PC release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gycu Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) In case that you don`t know there is a GTA 4 System Requirements Topic that I start,so you can talk about that there. http://www.thegtaplace.com/forums/index.ph...=9821&st=60 GTA 4 using Natural motion will be 10 better than previous GTAs. in all motion aspects But is only this that will make GTA IV better than GTA 3 ,just like GTA 3 was a revolution compared it with GTA 2,without the graphic improvements? Edited March 1, 2007 by Gycu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Must be fun if they use this for all the shooting stuff. And it will be fun to throw someone down the stares to, you'l see them fall like a rag-doll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 I know what you mean but don't confuse this with rag-doll physics, they are an actual type of physics, which are similar to what euphoria has done, except it's literally like a rag-doll, movements aren't human. Unless that human is dead of course. Also to everyone who's talking about endorphin, that's a different product. Rockstar are using euphoria. Read more about the two different products on http://www.naturalmotion.com. And all the comments regarding system specs have been moved to the topic in the GTA4 forum dedicated to it. Please do not talk about that here, Your comments on news posts are supposed to be directly related to the story. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gycu Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 That`s what I told them,to talk about system requirements .Yes my bad,Endorphin it`s not what GTA 4 will use,GTA 4 will use Euphoria.But are similar. You mean like their posts about system specs were moved to my topic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 Yes their posts have been moved into your topic Gycu, mods and admins can move not only topics but individual posts too Also, back on topic yet again, here are direct links to the endorphin and euphoria pages. Yes they are similar, and you may be confused as to what the actual differences are, but unless you're working in the 3D model or animation industry you don't need to know The point is that the press release specifically states euphoria, rather than all or any other of the products made by NaturalMotion. Just to clear up any confusion. Another point to make clear is that nowhere does it specifically state GTA4 will use it, but it is heavily implied, so that's what we're expecting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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