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Blizzard is jumping on the 3D bandwagon, as StarCraft 2 production director Chris Sigaty has revealed a patch will be issued for the game soon after its release that'll at 3D for those who can take advantage of it.
"We will be releasing 3D in the first few months, for those Nvidia cards and screens that support it," Sigaty told IGN (via VG247). And despite Nvidia being name-dropped specifically (and despite the fact Nvidia had a presence at the StarCraft 2 event in Seoul, South Korea where the interview was taking place), Sigaty also assured that they're "optimizing for all systems."
But 3D effects aren't the only graphical update that StarCraft 2 will get, as Sigaty also said Blizzard intends to continue to update the game with new visual features as time goes on and "median hardware gets faster." And while Sigaty also confirmed StarCraft 2 won't support anti-aliasing (a technique used to smooth out the rough edges in 3D graphics) out of the box, that could be one of the graphical updates the game receives later on.
StarCraft 2 is set for release in just a few weeks, on July 27.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3180243
I'm sure people will be upset over this news as it's not chatrooms or cross region play but it looks like it could be a cool gimmick for people with 120hz displays.
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The only really sad thing about this news is that there won't be AA support. I don't mind that people are getting it in 3D as long as it doesn't affect the chat rooms and cross region patches.
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I'm surprised it's not already supported out of the box.
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And while Sigaty also confirmed StarCraft 2 won't support anti-aliasing (a technique used to smooth out the rough edges in 3D graphics) out of the box, that could be one of the graphical updates the game receives later on.
Does this make sense to anyone? How is AA not going to be part of the release package? I'd honestly prefer them to have what most would call standard features over gimmicks such as 3D.
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We need motion controls too!
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I actually like this... updaing a game's graphics continually is something I would've liked to see in a lot of games! It's not anything major, but I think it's cool.
Something I'm not sure about: On most GFX drivers, you can force AA. Isn't this something that the driver itself can control regardless of the setting in the game? If so, can't everyone who wants AA just force it?
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There are ways to enable AA anyway.
Nvidia card users, google "Nhancer". I'm 99.9% positive ATITrayTools or something similar has the same functionality as Nhancer or RivaTuner.
But this is a little disappointing. So many gimmicks, so little integral functionality......
I mean it's kinda cool...but maybe I'm just not a 3D fan. I think "lol" every time those Sony 3D TV ads come on, personally...maybe it's just me?
Dear everybody below me posting about AA and Nvidia:
On July 04 2010 03:28 Jenslyn87 wrote:
I actually like this... updaing a game's graphics continually is something I would've liked to see in a lot of games! It's not anything major, but I think it's cool.
Something I'm not sure about: On most GFX drivers, you can force AA. Isn't this something that the driver itself can control regardless of the setting in the game? If so, can't everyone who wants AA just force it?
Yes. Sorry, you posted while I was typing my response. But you definitely can, Nvidia even already has values in the driver for "AA Compatibility" mode specifically for StarCraft II.
I am sure this pops up in the default drivers as well if you use the "program settings" (i.e. not global settings) area, and pick SC2. But just so I have proof and am not talking sideways out of my ass:
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On July 04 2010 03:28 Jenslyn87 wrote:
Something I'm not sure about: On most GFX drivers, you can force AA. Isn't this something that the driver itself can control regardless of the setting in the game? If so, can't everyone who wants AA just force it?
i think you can block it program-side.
at least forcing aa didn't work in the first beta phase.
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ill stick with hd for now... 3d always hurts my eyes and give me a headache at times. how the hell are u suppose to play.
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I read that AA doesn't work on ATI cards (I tried it and couldn't get it to work on my 5850 and didn't bother trying further) and that when forced on NVIDIA cards it does weird stuff like rounds the minimap. Someone with an NVIDIA card will have to confirm about that.
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On July 04 2010 03:25 Lighioana wrote:
I'm surprised it's not already supported out of the box.
You are surprised that a bleeding edge technology that maybe 0.5% of SC2 players have access to is not supported out of the box? I am surprised that you are surprised.
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Wow, so this is where their time is going. Way to be on the ball.
User was warned for this post
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On July 04 2010 03:34 konicki wrote:
Wow, so this is where their time is going. Way to be on the ball.
I swear I feel like choking whiny ass negative nerds like you.
User was warned for this post
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On July 04 2010 03:37 FortuneSyn wrote:Show nested quote +On July 04 2010 03:34 konicki wrote:
Wow, so this is where their time is going. Way to be on the ball. I swear I feel like choking whiny ass negative nerds like you.
Sentiment is mirrored back to you, from me. At least the other guy expressed his sentiments towards Blizzard. Nobody gives a shit about your sentiments about the other guy.
That goes for the other useless posts that follow below as well...
At least discuss Blizzard or SC2. Don't discuss the other guy...... ?????
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I think my nVidia driver on my desktop PC already has SC2 listed as 3D compatible. I'm not sure what the process is to get a game into that list, but if Blizz had anything to do with that then the 3D support probably was planned a long time ago.
Imo 3D hardware/technology is not yet suited for heavy usage, but the more games/movies start using it, the more likely it is for improvements to be made. SC2 definitely will help boost the development for the platform PC.
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On July 04 2010 03:37 FortuneSyn wrote:Show nested quote +On July 04 2010 03:34 konicki wrote:
Wow, so this is where their time is going. Way to be on the ball. I swear I feel like choking whiny ass negative nerds like you.
I'm really glad that it took 10 posts for the whiners to come in. I expected it to be the first reply.
It's not like the same people who would be working on the 3D support are the same people who are building Battle.net 2.0 :/
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On July 04 2010 03:37 FortuneSyn wrote:Show nested quote +On July 04 2010 03:34 konicki wrote:
Wow, so this is where their time is going. Way to be on the ball. I swear I feel like choking whiny ass negative nerds like you.
My fellow poster, you have stolen the words right out of my mouth. Well done 
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This would be sweet for single player if you have the set up to do it, but I dont know why anyone would want this for MP and everyone will be done with SP by the time it comes out. Just save it for the expansions in my opinion
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The most interesting thing about this information is that Blizzard is committed to graphics updates to the game over time. They must really want this game to last as long as Broodwar did.
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