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  • Solidice
    Guns Up!
    • Jul 2006
    • 9826

    #1

    NCAA Football 11 Blog: Screens and Lighting

    EA has just posted another NCAA Football 11 blog. Jean Adams, the Art Director talks about a couple of graphic improvements; the first being linear lighting.

    "Without getting too much into the art/technical details, we wanted to talk about a couple of graphic improvements; the first being linear lighting. This lighting technique allows us to more accurately control the material properties of everything that makes up the player. To put it in basic terms, we now have control over how bright or dark things get without losing detail. It also helps us get the authentic color on the uniforms.

    Linear lighting also allows us to tune helmets, jerseys, and other player gear in a much more realistic way. For example; youโ€™ll notice the skin looks more lifelike and less like plastic. Helmets and jerseys reflect the right amount of light. Colors are less saturated and react to lighting in a more realistic way. You might remember looking at previous versions of NCAA Football and feeling like things were too saturated and flat. We think weโ€™ve addressed these issues thanks to this new level of control."
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  • drlw322
    MVP
    • Jun 2007
    • 1430

    #2
    new blog short is up

    thanks to Hova 57 letting us know.




    Screens and Lighting
    by Russ 03/25/10 3:40 PM

    Here we are now just a short 4 months away from our July release date and busy as can be here at Tiburon. There were a few questions about whether our first screenshot was actually in-game or not, so I sat down with Jean Adams โ€“ Art Director on NCAA Football 11 โ€“ to talk about why the game looks better this year. We hope this blog will shed some light on the situationโ€ฆ (That is easily the worst pun Iโ€™ve ever had in my life).

    Without getting too much into the art/technical details, we wanted to talk about a couple of graphic improvements; the first being linear lighting. This lighting technique allows us to more accurately control the material properties of everything that makes up the player. To put it in basic terms, we now have control over how bright or dark things get without losing detail. It also helps us get the authentic color on the uniforms.

    Linear lighting also allows us to tune helmets, jerseys, and other player gear in a much more realistic way. For example; youโ€™ll notice the skin looks more lifelike and less like plastic. Helmets and jerseys reflect the right amount of light. Colors are less saturated and react to lighting in a more realistic way. You might remember looking at previous versions of NCAA Football and feeling like things were too saturated and flat. We think weโ€™ve addressed these issues thanks to this new level of control.

    Jean is also a big into gear so he wanted me to point out the leg brace, Nike Jet gloves and the Air LT cleats

    Overall we wanted to make lighting feel realistic and dramatic at the same time. At the end of the day we are hoping that you like the crisp and detailed graphics of NCAA Football 11.

    Here is a comparison of NCAA Football 10...

    and NCAA Football 11.

    We think graphics are key, but before you askโ€ฆ YES, there are bigger details coming on gameplay and Dynasty, so please be patient. In a couple weeks we are scheduled to release the first gameplay feature blog. I think you are going to like it; really cool stuff, no question about it.

    Thanks for reading!

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    Last edited by drlw322; 03-25-2010, 04:12 PM.
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    • BLACKjersey53
      Rookie
      • May 2009
      • 190

      #3
      Re: new blog short is up

      skin is less shiny, nice! also love all of the new epuipment

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      • KyGamerLT
        Pro
        • Jun 2008
        • 572

        #4
        Re: new blog short is up

        O H I O man I can't wait.

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        • drlw322
          MVP
          • Jun 2007
          • 1430

          #5
          Re: new blog short is up

          in the texas vs ohio st pic, it looks like it looks like it's displaying a different running animation on the texas running back. also all the other player looks like they are leaning more like momentum is involved.

          is it me or are these Ncaa Screens kicking the Madden one's a@@
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          • Kevin26385
            EA Game Changer
            • May 2004
            • 5150

            #6
            Re: NCAA 11 Blog: Screens and Lighting

            It's amazing how much lighting makes the game look much better.

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            • sva91
              MVP
              • Feb 2005
              • 2023

              #7
              Re: new blog short is up

              This has become a first day purchase just based on the UT Ohio St pic alone. The graphics, gear, lighting look incredible. I swear if I were to have seen that first pic on SI or something without staring at it, I would have guessed it was real. INSANE!!

              I know its not all about graphics, but with a game looking this nice, you can easily overlook some of the core deficiencies. Kinda like dating a supermodel.

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              • Sting
                Banned
                • Nov 2004
                • 3836

                #8
                Re: NCAA 11 Blog: Screens and Lighting

                Looks the same except for some new equipment.

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                • JohnDoe8865
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                  • Jul 2002
                  • 9610

                  #9
                  Re: new blog short is up

                  Very nice.
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                  • BSherrod
                    Rookie
                    • Dec 2006
                    • 443

                    #10
                    Re: NCAA 11 Blog: Screens and Lighting

                    Wow...that looks good. Nice to see the Vapor Jets in the game and the other new equipment. Was the high socks option in last year's game? I haven't played on next gen in awhile and in the background of the Florida/Florida State screen one player has different sock length.
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                    • BLACKjersey53
                      Rookie
                      • May 2009
                      • 190

                      #11
                      Re: new blog short is up

                      Love the screenshot, but I wouldnt mind if EA gave us more screenshots...ya know, as something to keep people like me occupied until another blog comes out.

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                      • J-Unit40
                        Boom!!
                        • Sep 2005
                        • 8264

                        #12
                        Re: new blog short is up

                        Originally posted by sva91
                        This has become a first day purchase just based on the UT Ohio St pic alone. The graphics, gear, lighting look incredible. I swear if I were to have seen that first pic on SI or something without staring at it, I would have guessed it was real. INSANE!!

                        I know its not all about graphics, but with a game looking this nice, you can easily overlook some of the core deficiencies. Kinda like dating a supermodel.
                        BOOM!! Exactly. I totally agree with both points.

                        We will still have some time to find out more about gameplay, locomotion and playbooks in the coming weeks/months, but this is a great start!

                        Oh, and I see a new running animation/style on the Texas RB.....nice.
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                        • Drocks
                          Rookie
                          • Sep 2006
                          • 211

                          #13
                          Re: NCAA 11 Blog: Screens and Lighting

                          Originally posted by Sting
                          Looks the same except for some new equipment.
                          Really? I thought it looked a lot better, more realistic coloring to the jerseys and skin tones. I don't think the models changed much at all, but I really don't think those needed a lot of work.

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                          • stoncold32
                            MVP
                            • Jul 2002
                            • 3595

                            #14
                            Re: NCAA 11 Blog: Screens and Lighting

                            I've been saying the past 2 years, this game looks too dark and washed out. Hopefully it looks better this year

                            But the main issue is the crowd looking this way
                            Last edited by stoncold32; 03-25-2010, 04:48 PM.

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                            • BooShay
                              Banned
                              • Oct 2009
                              • 694

                              #15
                              Re: NCAA 11 Blog: Screens and Lighting

                              I wonder if the "Percy Harvin" facemask made it in?

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