A Final Fantasy-inspired tech demo called “Agni’s Philosophy” was released by Square Enix today, in order to introduce it’s next generation engine called the Luminous Engine. The engine is in development within Square Enix.
According to Square Enix, the engine is able to portray high quality “real time computer graphics,” at the same level as “pre-rendered computer graphics,”.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII is also supposedly using the Engine’s lighting assets along with the Crystal Tools engine acting as its base.
You can watch footage of the tech demo below:
You can give your thoughts to Square regarding this tech demo at this survey.