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NCAA Football 11 Blog: Screens and Lighting

05:07 PM - March 25, 2010 by Solidice

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.

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	"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; you�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 we�ve addressed these issues thanks to this new level of control."

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# 61 Watson @ 03/25/10 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by TheShizNo1


	So............nothing on gameplay yet?

Cereal?

# 62 MaizeHaze @ 03/25/10 10:51 PM

Looks great! However the short sleeve shirt on the texas player is gray. Please don't tell me they didn't fix that!

# 63 gofresno @ 03/25/10 10:55 PM

Thank you EA for improving the lighting, it has been my only gripe graphics wise. It will make a world of difference. Just make sure progressive lighting and all that good stuff is included still unlike the last time it was changed.

# 64 SageInfinite @ 03/25/10 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Sting


	My bad man. I'm like Cougar from Top Gun right now, "I'm holding on too tight"

Lol. It's all good man. I think all real long time fans of this series are a little tight right now.

# 65 Watson @ 03/25/10 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MaizeHaze


	Looks great! However the short sleeve shirt on the texas player is gray. Please don't tell me they didn't fix that!

looks at the guy in the background, to the right. I think it's just the angle that makes it look gray.

# 66 muckcity @ 03/25/10 11:33 PM

i just hope they give us hair this year.....im tired of not having dreads on my miami hurricanes players

# 67 SageInfinite @ 03/25/10 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by JerseySuave4


	its amazing how much more realistic a game can look simply with better lighting and realistic equipment. You got the new helmets, new cleats styles, cleat colors, arm braces, knee braces, undershirts, towels on the pants, player colors look much better, uniform colors look much better. I never realized just how important lighting was until i saw the pics from last year & this year next to each other.

Yea lighting can make such a big difference. Playing the show this year, sometimes I have to do double takes. Lighting and colors really can make a big difference, as well as the equipment. I'm loving the new cleats.

# 68 TheWatcher @ 03/25/10 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by stoncold32


	Well, they have to choose carefully and get them in the just the right spots. You know the guys on here(myself included) will be looking in the background at the blocking and other stuff. LOL

I gotta be honest... I don't believe and have no reason to believe that they care about this sort of stuff at all. Thing is, they really should... the same way a construction worker should care about his hard hat. Sure, he can work without a hard hat, but it's an awfully bad idea... and so is the lack of these angles in a game that's supposed to represent what we see on Saturday's.

I figure if after 4 seasons they haven't incorporated these shots into the actual game, then they simply aren't concerned with it... and if they aren't concerned with that then we're never going to get what we see on Saturday's.

They can do this. They are capable of showing replays and cut scenes from any angle they want. There is nothing stopping them except for a lack of concern for something they should be concerned with. I don't want whack gameplay camera's that move strangely like a rocking sail boat and make no sense (NCAA 10). Instead of wasting development time on what essentially adds nothing to the game experience, they could've spent that time trying to reproduce a broadcast and adding in these types of angles. When they sit down to plan this game, I wonder if anyone in the room ever states the obvious "you know, our game doesn't move like a TV broadcast. Our post-play, pre-play, and replay angles look nothing like TV... shouldn't we be working on that and making THAT a big deal instead of, ya know, SEASON SHOWDOWN?"

I'm just really disappointed with this franchise. I want to play College Football again, but to me 10 was just atrocious. I didn't buy it and didn't even think twice about not buying it. This series has become just a very sterile experience and while the rest of their industry is recreating broadcast and adding all the important little nuances (See FIFA, NBA Live, The Show, NBA 2K, even Madden), this team remains distantly behind. We know it, we've told them... they know what we've told them... so what are they going to do about it? After 4 seasons, I have zero faith that they're going to do any of it. Heck, NCAA 07 had more of it than their last 3 games. It's really a shame.

# 69 SageInfinite @ 03/25/10 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by TheWatcher


	I gotta be honest... I don't believe and have no reason to believe that they care about this sort of stuff at all. Thing is, they really should... the same way a construction worker should care about his hard hat. Sure, he can work without a hard hat, but it's an awfully bad idea... and so is the lack of these angles in a game that's supposed to represent what we see on Saturday's. I figure if after 4 seasons they haven't incorporated these shots into the actual game, then they simply aren't concerned with it... and if they aren't concerned with that then we're never going to get what we see on Saturday's. They can do this. They are capable of showing replays and cut scenes from any angle they want. There is nothing stopping them except for a lack of concern for something they should be concerned with. I don't want whack gameplay camera's that move strangely like a rocking sail boat and make no sense (NCAA 10). Instead of wasting development time on what essentially adds nothing to the game experience, they could've spent that time trying to reproduce a broadcast and adding in these types of angles. When they sit down to plan this game, I wonder if anyone in the room ever states the obvious "you know, our game doesn't move like a TV broadcast. Our post-play, pre-play, and replay angles look nothing like TV... shouldn't we be working on that and making THAT a big deal instead of, ya know, SEASON SHOWDOWN?"

IMO EA as a whole hasn't really been concerned with presentation for awhile, and really has never done it well.

# 70 gator3guy @ 03/25/10 11:55 PM

On the florida player, is that a revo speed helmet with a standard facemask???

# 71 eritraj @ 03/26/10 12:05 AM

Screens look great on first glance...

Few things. Like mentioned above...What is up with the facemask on the Revo Speed the UF player is wearing? It looks like a normal facemask on new helment. Hope they can get accurate facemasks and make sure to include the "Percy Harvin" regular Revo facemask.

I really hope they fix the "white" longsleves and that actually off-white closer almost gray. I have no idea why it got messed up last year, but that needs to be fixed.

# 72 boisejames @ 03/26/10 12:09 AM

The blog was great I liked all the screen shots. This game is finally gonna look good. Is it gonna play good too???

Also, I don't wanna sound like a nit-picker but I noticed that they haven't fixed how low the helmet sits on the players head.

# 73 sva91 @ 03/26/10 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by boisejames


	The blog was great I liked all the screen shots. This game is finally gonna look good. Is it gonna play good too??? Also, I don't wanna sound like a nit-picker but I noticed that they haven't fixed how low the helmet sits on the players head.

well if you're gonna nitpick, I must also. The Texas players wear black with white accent. And white with burnt orange accent with their away unis. I know its early, but these are the kind of quick fixes than can be made early. i just hope they get everything accurate because the game looks so damn nice.

# 74 St3fN_sTrApS @ 03/26/10 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by gator3guy


	On the florida player, is that a revo speed helmet with a standard facemask???

It looks like it is a standard 3-bar facemask!

# 75 St3fN_sTrApS @ 03/26/10 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by sva91


	well if you're gonna nitpick, I must also. The Texas players wear black with white accent. And white with burnt orange accent with their away unis. I know its early, but these are the kind of quick fixes than can be made early. i just hope they get everything accurate because the game looks so damn nice.

Yeah that is very true, but if you look in the background the Texas player to left is wearing the black vapors with white accent. So maybe we can choose between black with white accent and or black with team color, and vice versa for teams with white shoes?

# 76 Rocky @ 03/26/10 12:34 AM

Meh, this happens every year. EA puts out great screenshots, only to have things completely fall apart when the game is in motion.

# 77 SageInfinite @ 03/26/10 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by utexas_fan


	Yeah that is very true, but if you look in the background the Texas player to left is wearing the black vapors with white accent. So maybe we can choose between black with white accent and or black with team color, and vice versa for teams with white shoes?

Good eye!

# 78 dmick4324 @ 03/26/10 12:37 AM

Unbelievable screens. I love the gloves. I play NCAA exclusively with my friend on the same team. He LOVES equipment I can't wait to show him this. Now I'll actually enjoy watching him fiddle with equipment for hours before we can get into games, this will definitely add more variation between players.

# 79 St3fN_sTrApS @ 03/26/10 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by SageInfinite


	Good eye!

Ha ha thanks bro. I can't stop looking at those screens man, I'm blown away and I'm super pumped for July!

# 80 vatechfan44 @ 03/26/10 01:01 AM

Love it, cant wait for july

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