Crytek ''Investigating'' Flash Support in CryEngine

[exfileme]

Crytek is looking into supporting Flash Player 11 in CryEngine, but it may not be the same solution used by Epic.

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[illfindu]

This hole engine push for Flash is kinda interesting since I got the feeling that there has been a little more movement from non-Apple companies to make flash less a part of systems. If I'm not mistaken windows 8 IE doesn't have flash support by default this hole development could change the way people look at HTML5 VS Flash. Disclaimer I am not saying flash is dead , bad or buggy just making a personal observation.

 

[upgrade_1977]

So, i'm a lil confused on this topic, Mainly this

But even more, for those with low hardware specs and bandwidth caps that can't stream games from the likes of OnLive and Gaikai, this may be the only other alternative besides shelling out the big bucks for a new system.

Really confused by this.... Are you (Kevin Parrish) saying that the games will run faster on flash then they will playing the games the traditional way through the regular drivers? Why won't they have to upgrade there systems? Does flash some how make games faster then the way games traditionally work through drivers?

I read this article on a different site, but I thought it was a 1000 times faster then the older flash, so you would be able to play console quality games in a browser, but this statement makes me think flash does something to sidestep game requirements..???? Will Crtek's engine somehow run fine on low spec systems that couldn't run the game before when running flash 11 ???

 

[koga73]

the new version of flash has hardware acceleration and lower level graphics apis to be able to communicate more directly with the graphics card. flash, depending on which graphics library it selects at run-time can now push a ton of graphics data that it never could in the past. the best part about flash is it runs on anything and everything. *except supported by apple

 

[killerclick]

No way, Flash is dead, we all hate Flash. Besides, it's not supported on the iPad so it has no point.

 

[alyoshka]

Why Now? No Point in it anyways....

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

[citation][nom]upgrade_1977[/nom]So, i'm a lil confused on this topic, Mainly this Really confused by this.... Are you (Kevin Parrish) saying that the games will run faster on flash then they will playing the games the traditional way through the regular drivers? Why won't they have to upgrade there systems? Does flash some how make games faster then the way games traditionally work through drivers? I read this article on a different site, but I thought it was a 1000 times faster then the older flash, so you would be able to play console quality games in a browser, but this statement makes me think flash does something to sidestep game requirements..???? Will Crtek's engine somehow run fine on low spec systems that couldn't run the game before when running flash 11 ???[/citation]

Of course not. This whole thing is just another hype wave. There's NO POINT in having your games running in your browser (you'll still need that same powerful system, Flash ain't gonna magically replace your GPU). In fact, adding one more layer on top of DirectX will degrade the performance more. Flash STILL will have to access DirectX in order to render the graphics and therefore the whole thing is pointless.

Enthusiast gamer doesn't need it. Casual gamer will be pissed off at the pointless performance drop. That is all.

 

[back_by_demand]

Apple disses Flash
Flash changes to be a games platform
...
May only be casual games at first but there's good money to be made

 

[mjello]

Flash does not require directx. Thats the whole point. Any device with any operating system that supports flash, and has a compatible GPU can play the flash games. Thats the whole point of this. It might still use directX when available but its not required.

And there is just no way to do that without a performance loss. So in no way does this replace traditional games run on directX or OpenGL directly.

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

Flash does not require directx. Thats the whole point. Any device with any operating system that supports flash, and has a compatible GPU can play the flash games. Thats the whole point of this. It might still use directX when available but its not required.

And there is just no way to do that without a performance loss. So in no way does this replace traditional games run on directX or OpenGL directly.

No, Flash DOES require DirectX. DirectX is the API that connects all other software to the hardware - this is how the developers can create games that install and work easily on all kinds of hardware configurations. Think of DirectX as of a computer cabinet, if I am to involve analogies. It allows you to install all kinds of different hardware and provide a generalised way to access it without being very specific about the hardware - DirectX will take care of it for you. OpenGL is the same.

If there's a way for Flash to SOMEHOW bypass DX or OpenGL and interact with hardware directly, please provide some links with such info - I'm always ready to expand my knowledge

 

[mjello]

[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]No, Flash DOES require DirectX. DirectX is the API that connects all other software to the hardware - this is how the developers can create games that install and work easily on all kinds of hardware configurations. Think of DirectX as of a computer cabinet, if I am to involve analogies. It allows you to install all kinds of different hardware and provide a generalised way to access it without being very specific about the hardware - DirectX will take care of it for you. OpenGL is the same.If there's a way for Flash to SOMEHOW bypass DX or OpenGL and interact with hardware directly, please provide some links with such info - I'm always ready to expand my knowledge[/citation]

So directX is available on my android phone ? Interesting. No what I am saying is. It might use directX on windows. Its just not required to run the game. Ive just run a couple demos demonstrating 3d support on my android phone. Others didn't work. Just too taxing or several 100MB download. Not very good, but it worked for some. My point is. The game will run, as long as you got enough power and flash 11 support.

That offcourse won't allow crysis to run on an android phone. And interface programming specific for the device will still be required. There is no keyboard on my touch phone so I can't drive very well hehe. Couldn't even get the screen keyboard activated.

 

[Guest]

The Flash implementation is a layer on top of DirectX *or* OpenGL (*or* Open GL ES for mobile) depending on the system. There's no DirectX on Android, no DirectX on Mac OS X, only OpenGL. DirectX is Windows only. Flash does not bypass any of this (they would have to write custom drivers for every video cards which is near impossible). And even if you don't have a GPU on your device, it will still work (but much more slowly) thanks to a software (CPU) rasteriser.

 

[feeddagoat]

Basically its a way that solves porting between many different environments. Android, x86, BBOS, QNX, PS3, xbox360 etc. All support flash, all run it "well"

 

[jecastej]

If Flash can deliver a good service is good with me but lets not make the same mistake and allow it to be the default option.

I've been using Flash for some time now and I was getting tired of Flash being the default technology for graphics animation or interface on the internet when I thought there should be other possibilities too. With HTML5 at least I have a "low cost" alternative I can use on almost any device. However is no like I hate Flash and want it to die. But maybe, maybe the recent anti Flash feeling pushed Adobe further as a developer to expand the technologies included in Flash and make it still very relevant for the present and for years to come.

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

So directX is available on my android phone ? Interesting. No what I am saying is. It might use directX on windows. Its just not required to run the game. Ive just run a couple demos demonstrating 3d support on my android phone. Others didn't work. Just too taxing or several 100MB download. Not very good, but it worked for some. My point is. The game will run, as long as you got enough power and flash 11 support.

That offcourse won't allow crysis to run on an android phone. And interface programming specific for the device will still be required. There is no keyboard on my touch phone so I can't drive very well hehe. Couldn't even get the screen keyboard activated.

I believe that answers your Android question:

The Flash implementation is a layer on top of DirectX *or* OpenGL (*or* Open GL ES for mobile) depending on the system. There's no DirectX on Android, no DirectX on Mac OS X, only OpenGL. DirectX is Windows only. Flash does not bypass any of this (they would have to write custom drivers for every video cards which is near impossible). And even if you don't have a GPU on your device, it will still work (but much more slowly) thanks to a software (CPU) rasteriser.

Android simply has a different renderer.

 

[Trialsking]

games built for high-end consoles

Did anyone else see the oxymoron?!?!

 

[ojas]

what i find interesting is that "games built for high-end consoles" can run in a web browser on the PC.
Will that mean i'll be able to play Halo 4 after all? :O

 

[Guest]

I'm really excited to see these game companies move toward browser based 3d gaming. It has been possible for sometime for example tanki online which is a 3d MMO built around the previous versions of flash and has decent graphics. They plan to release version 2 very soon that takes advantage of “Molehill” 3D GPU. Here is a demo of version 2 youtu.be/CSp2ZIlkjhs. Better shaders and higher resolution.

You can easily see the how much improvement the new API's bring.