Upon What Engine is ESO Built?

Gidorick · April 2015

Attorneyatlawl wrote: »

gratuitous ragdolls for character deaths not only would add too much visual clutter to the game field but simply wouldn't work gameplay wise in an area such as Cyrodiil. Your ally died next to you on the keep wall? One sec rez.... uhoh his corpse rolled off to the ground over the edge of the wall and cancelled the rez! Get what I mean?

That would be amazing!

Varicite · April 2015

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

Whatever they are doing...other than the bugs which are being worked out...it went pretty well for consoles but not so hot for PC.

Well, I should hope so.

They have had 100,000+ players paying to beta test the game for over a year; it would be quite the failure if they somehow managed to make the console's launch worse than PC (which actually was pretty smooth for a MMO launch).

Arato · April 2015

Whatever they call their engine, it is certainly based on HeroEngine. The character movement and floaty jumping is very reminiscent of Star Wars: The Old Republic. I could tell immediately after moving around a bit and jumping into some walls that the engine is still based on HeroEngine. The shaders/lighting is different and obviously much better, but, some aspects are still HeroEngine.

Jaxsun · April 2015

RSram wrote: »

Robbmrp wrote: »

...The other engines must not have been able to do what they were trying for ESO....

Like run on MS DOS?

ROFL!

EQBallzz · May 2015

IXT

Arato wrote: »

Whatever they call their engine, it is certainly based on HeroEngine. The character movement and floaty jumping is very reminiscent of Star Wars: The Old Republic. I could tell immediately after moving around a bit and jumping into some walls that the engine is still based on HeroEngine. The shaders/lighting is different and obviously much better, but, some aspects are still HeroEngine.

Well if it's certainly based on the Hero Engine but heavily modified..the name should probably be modified to reflect ESO in some representative way. I propose...Cash Shop Hero Engine or maybe P2W Hero Engine. It's a somewhat forward looking name.

Lava_Croft · May 2015

Arato wrote: »

Whatever they call their engine, it is certainly based on HeroEngine. The character movement and floaty jumping is very reminiscent of Star Wars: The Old Republic. I could tell immediately after moving around a bit and jumping into some walls that the engine is still based on HeroEngine. The shaders/lighting is different and obviously much better, but, some aspects are still HeroEngine.

This is a very scientific analysis. You should work as a bug-fixer for ZOS!

fromtesonlineb16_ESO · May 2015

Gidorick wrote: »

Not /thread @fromtesonlineb16_ESO. That doesn't answer what they call their engine. They built it from the ground up. Cool. Does it have a name?

Personally I like to think it's something Elder Scrolls related. Like the CHIM Engine.

Why are you so fixated on some chunk of software having a name?

I get some people enjoy endless intellectual masturbation and engaging in erudite conversations about 'this' engine and 'that' engine ... but it's simply a chunk of server software IT DOESN'T HAVE TO HAVE A NAME!

Gidorick · May 2015

Not fixated. Just asking a question. I guarantee they call it something. It might be something dull like "Zenimax Online Studios Development Engine" but the folder, the executable, something is named. I'm just curious what that is.

I'm sorry if you... take offense, I guess.

RainfeatherUK · May 2015

Lava_Croft wrote: »

This is a very scientific analysis. You should work as a bug-fixer for ZOS!

I lol'd. Arato this game has very different physics to hero, that's immediately evident if you run it side by side with swtor. Game engines all have similar aspects in places, doesn't mean they are the same system.

I swear people have some sort of Hero Engine obsession around this place >_<

Arato · May 2015

Basically you know how Skyrim is on the "creation engine" but it's still very similar to Gamebryo, but Bethesda was getting flack for using Gamebryo for their games? Same situation here. HeroEngine has been heavily criticized because of SWTOR, so ZOS says they're using a different engine, but it's still based on HeroEngine.

Just be thankful they have nothing comparable to Datacrons in ESO,, and there's only a few quests that utilize jumping on platforms in any way, but, man is the jumping awful here, extremely floaty, and if you hit any obstacle while jumping your forward momentum is translated to horizontal momentum and you fly sideways when you bounce off (instead of either falling straight down as in some games or bouncing straight backwards as you would in real life if you jumped straight into a wall)

One time I was riding back to Chorral in Cyrodiil, I was on my mount, using rapid maneuver, and sprinting, so, going really fast, I jumped a small gap, but didn't clear the far side, I hit the top edge of the side of the gap, and flew sideways about 300m into lava and died.... There was no lava where I was jumping so if I'd just dropped straight down or flew backwards a few feet I'd have survived.

But because it behaves like SWTOR jumping and you slide sideways with full momentum.. landed in lava that was at least 100m away to the right and died.

Davadin · May 2015

i dont care what it's call, but can i get SMAA?

Obscure · May 2015

Upon What Engine is ESO Built?

The engine is built upon broken dreams and empty promises...

...and it runs on tears.

Bouvin · May 2015

What happens to the engine when you enter Cyrodil

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Gidorick · May 2015

Obscure wrote: »

Upon What Engine is ESO Built?

The engine is built upon broken dreams and empty promises...

...and it runs on tears.

Lol. This made me chuckle.

blabafat · May 2015

it's called
engine:guardian

Varicite · May 2015

blabafat wrote: »

it's called
engine:guardian

Silly, we both know that doesn't actually exist.

VoidParticle · August 2015

Attorneyatlawl wrote: »

Your ally died next to you on the keep wall? One sec rez.... uhoh his corpse rolled off to the ground over the edge of the wall and cancelled the rez! Get what I mean?

One thing I loved doing in Skyrim was dragging someone around. Killed a bunch of bandits deciding to harass you walking by? *dead* then drag them behind some log away from the road.

Nobody wants to look bad as the Dragonborn.

I know this game was never supposed to be Skyrim online, but at least in Skyrim I could move things around and make a mess with objects. Anyways... That's my 2 thoughts on ragdolls and game physics.

mrskinskull · August 2015

Gidorick wrote: »

I know it's an engine that ZOS developed from the ground up just for ESO, but what do they call it? What is its name?

I don't know its name but its dwemer in nature.

milkbox · August 2015

After the recent gender kerfuffle I'm surprised no one has suggested Heroine Engine. ;p

BaconMagic · August 2015

Hero Engine is the engine of broken dreams. It was created by the Simutronics corp and was supposed to be used to create their MMO in the fantasy world Elanthia from the longest running (and amazing) MUD Gemstone IV. Thousands of people were anticipating that game with the working title of Hero's Journey. Instead, Simutronics needed cash so they sold the engine so SWTOR could have it.

Gelston · August 2015

BaconMagic wrote: »

Hero Engine is the engine of broken dreams. It was created by the Simutronics corp and was supposed to be used to create their MMO in the fantasy world Elanthia from the longest running (and amazing) MUD Gemstone IV. Thousands of people were anticipating that game with the working title of Hero's Journey. Instead, Simutronics needed cash so they sold the engine so SWTOR could have it.

Haha, I don't think that MMO from them would have been too popular. People still playing GS generally aren't graphical MMO players.

Gidorick · August 2015

r.leigh.harperb14_ESO wrote: »

After the recent gender kerfuffle I'm surprised no one has suggested Heroine Engine. ;p

I know their programmers used the hero engine as a sort of template and learning tool for the ESO engine...

Arkadius · August 2015

Don't know what their engine is called, but it must look something like this

MrBeatDown · August 2015

I thought they bought the damn thing Used off of ebay, in a liquidation auction sale....

Blackhorne · August 2015

mrskinskull wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

I know it's an engine that ZOS developed from the ground up just for ESO, but what do they call it? What is its name?

I don't know its name but its dwemer in nature.

It should be called the Heart of Lorkhan.

Gidorick · August 2015

I quite like the name "The Mundus Engine"

Sllocsredle · August 2

The engine is Hero Engine, someone got into the mainframe, the Acapela Group is in the copyrighted info for ZOS, there is no information on the Grammar Engine, no copyright is seen, would normally be okay with a change; however there is no information on that engine, we all could write and write about the different possible engines, my point is that having a name that is known keeping the name permanent, there is too little info about new info, can discern a little, but cannot understand when things look strange in the ZOS on screen info, there are all sorts of required payments. I am with the Hero Engine developer with how he/she/they programmed the engine, when new groups come in, they have to present to us all

Maitsukas · August 2

Sllocsredle wrote: »

The engine is Hero Engine, someone got into the mainframe, the Acapela Group is in the copyrighted info for ZOS, there is no information on the Grammar Engine, no copyright is seen, would normally be okay with a change; however there is no information on that engine, we all could write and write about the different possible engines, my point is that having a name that is known keeping the name permanent, there is too little info about new info, can discern a little, but cannot understand when things look strange in the ZOS on screen info, there are all sorts of required payments. I am with the Hero Engine developer with how he/she/they programmed the engine, when new groups come in, they have to present to us all

How many threads have you necroed by now?

DenverRalphy · August 2

Sllocsredle wrote: »

The engine is Hero Engine, someone got into the mainframe, the Acapela Group is in the copyrighted info for ZOS, there is no information on the Grammar Engine, no copyright is seen, would normally be okay with a change; however there is no information on that engin<snip>

A visual aid just in case you honestly don't know what a 'necro' is.

ZOS_Hadeostry · August 2

Greetings,

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