Codies share design knowhow with automotive tech firm

6 Comments by Jason Dobson Apr 10th 2008 9:10AM
Filed under: Culture, Business

Worlds are colliding, as Codemasters has announced what it calls a "strategic partnership" with automotive 3D effects firm Realtime Technology to share vehicle rendering and modeling practices for upcoming projects.

The partnership includes collaboration over rendering tools such as RTT DeltaGen and RealTrace, used in rendering CAD models in real time, and Codemasters' EGO game engine, seen in titles such as last year's DiRT and the upcoming Race Driver: GRID. What exactly this meeting of the minds will mean for gamers remains fuzzy, though considering Realtime Technology's considerable footprint in the automotive industry with clients such as Audi, Maserati and Rolls-Royce among many others, maybe this is all part of Codemasters' grand scheme to make racing games exciting once more.

Tags: codemasters, dirt, ego, grid, realtime-technology, realtimetechnology, rtt

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Maverick Saturn: Apr 10th 2008; 9:17AM

Thier games are already great :)

Awesome partnership

ThePremierAssassin: Apr 10th 2008; 9:25AM

Is anyone else as curious as I am for GRID? Ever since i saw that first vid I've been hooked. I truly hope it lives up to the expections they have for it.

I'm glad the 2 companies are working together...

Sean: Apr 10th 2008; 11:16AM

That's a 2010 Camaro.
Must play game.

urbanbuddha: Apr 10th 2008; 12:18PM

Does come in orange AND transform? Cause I won't get the game unless it does ;)

Zeus.:God: Apr 10th 2008; 4:32PM

Not to be a dick or anything, but I personally think this game looks better than GT5...

GT5 looks great, but then again... This looks delicious.

Deprincer: Apr 10th 2008; 9:15PM

Yeah that looks real.

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