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Discussion in 'Entropia News' started by Tass, Nov 22, 2021.

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  1. Dec 31, 2021 #41
    INTERNUT

    INTERNUT

    They should have added some wind sound for extra context, but still fairly realistic.
     
  2. Dec 31, 2021 #42
    San

    San

    When I tried this before, actually right here for your gaming video collection, I couldn't get past YouTube downsampling it. They never allowed the original hires through. How do you guys do it?
     
  3. Dec 31, 2021 #43
    Tass

    Tass Administrator

    They always downsample to reduce the bandwidth. To get the best possible results you should meet YouTube's recommendations: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171 All of them except the bitrate, the bitrate should be a low a possible by maximizing compression. YouTube uses 2 codecs for their videos: AVC and VP9. VP9 usually results in better video quality but as it's more 'expensive' for YouTube it's usually only applied to videos that the algorithm deem worth it. However, there are parameters you can influence to trigger VP9, like meeting all the recommendations. In addition the most important is resolution, which best should be 4k (3840x2160). You can btw check the used codec by right-click on a YT video then click "Stats for nerds". To compensate for downsample bluriness I sometimes add extra 'crisp' using ffmpegs unsharp filter and and little bit more conrast with the eq filter. To get a visually lossless source file in the first place I record using OBS, encoding with x264 and CRF (constant rate frame) set to 19 to retain high visual quality, the CPU setting to "ultrafast" (which is least taxing to CPU) resulting in huge file sizes. With "ultrafast", high resolution and high level of detail in the game the disk write rate can be a bottleneck. I apply the max compression and filters and stuff afterwards in a second step, with ffmpeg X264 encoding, CRF also to 19 but CPU setting to veryslow. Pfft, I've got no time, sorry for this messy explanation, I shall do better as soon as I have the tome :)

    The re-rendering of the EU EU5 vid was just one line of commands:

    ffmpeg -i d:/Videos/2021/euue.mp4 -vf "crop=720:405:0:439, unsharp=3:3:0.3:3:3:0.3, scale=3840:2160:flags=lanczos+accurate_rnd+full_chroma_int+full_chroma_inp, unsharp=3:3:0.3:3:3:0.3" -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -crf 19 -maxrate 24000k -bufsize 16000k -use_editlist 0 -movflags +faststart -c:a aac -f mp4 d:/Videos/2021/Entropia-Universe-Unreal-Engine-5-First-Video-4k.mp4
     
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  4. Dec 31, 2021 #44
    San

    San

    That's fine for me, familiar with the technical alphabet soup and ffmpeg command line, just YT was really tiring me out then. Thanks for taking the time!
     
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  5. Jan 3, 2022 #45
    Tass

    Tass Administrator

    Yet another Hiryuu comcept art.

    [​IMG]
     
  6. Jan 3, 2022 #46
    NotAdmin

    NotAdmin Administrator

    It's great to see the recent hires are putting their talents to good use. However, this does seem to hint that like the last time, emphasis is put on making EU look good. I do hope that gameplay won't be overlooked. The mob AI could use some modernization. As could pretty much the great majority of the systems in-game.

    Like, the society terminals, land ownership, the auction, missions, achievements, harvesting, crafting, mining, taming, tailoring, apartments, etc.
     
  7. Jan 3, 2022 #47
    narfi

    narfi Lost

    pfft.... put in a massive and awesomely hard to reach golf course, delay re-implementing vehicles and teleporting for a while and everyone will forget about game play and enjoy exploring the brave new world, then get excited once vehicles and teleporting are back and everyone gets 'attaboys!'.
     
  8. Jan 5, 2022 #48
    Wistrel

    Wistrel Kick Ass Elf


    hmm.... I miss the days when armour had interesting colours and patterns... guessing this is Shogun? So far from the original now I wonder why they bother.
     
  9. Jan 5, 2022 #49
    Wistrel

    Wistrel Kick Ass Elf

    oh I'm sure they'll get to them "eventually" TM
     
  10. Jan 5, 2022 #50
    Wistrel

    Wistrel Kick Ass Elf

    I never actually saw the golf course... I remember the original CE2 PA though... interesting crazyness that this was. Glad they at least kept the style for the space port but wish to high heaven they hadn't removed the ability to drive vehicles around there... way to kill stone dead an already mostly dead area... I just don't get the thinking some times...

    Where was the golf course incidentally? Was it in the volcano or something... before the robots and the ruins?
     
  11. Jan 5, 2022 #51
    Wistrel

    Wistrel Kick Ass Elf

    Nice! I like the pulsing luminous flowers/plants. Combined with the concept art it shows they are thinking properly about how this is an alien world and that strange alien vegetation is a big part of that. I'm hope they check old school stuff like Dan Dare comics for inspiration. Lots of alien world vegatation and stuff in that. There's tons of inspiration to be had out there.
     
  12. Jan 13, 2022 #52
    Tass

    Tass Administrator

    New one (actually yet another perspective of what was already published in early October):

    [​IMG]
     
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  13. Jan 17, 2022 #53
    Tass

    Tass Administrator

    First vid showing character movement:

     
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  14. Jan 17, 2022 #54
    Wistrel

    Wistrel Kick Ass Elf

    Looking alright!
     
  15. Jan 17, 2022 #55
    Tass

    Tass Administrator

    What's this?

    entropia-universe-unreal-engine-5-creature.jpg
     
  16. Jan 17, 2022 #56
    GeorgeSkywalker

    GeorgeSkywalker Explorer

    I'm guessing more vegetation albeit alien :)
     
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  17. Jan 17, 2022 #57
    Wistrel

    Wistrel Kick Ass Elf

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  18. Jan 18, 2022 #58
    INTERNUT

    INTERNUT

    At least this shows that MA's definitely working on the UE5 implementation.
     
  19. Jan 18, 2022 #59
    INTERNUT

    INTERNUT

  20. Jan 18, 2022 #60
    Wistrel

    Wistrel Kick Ass Elf

    Something like this...

     
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