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the timeless by Mercury [web]
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screenshot added by cupe on 2014-04-20 02:29:16
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release date : april 2014
release party : Revision 2014
compo : pc 64k
ranked : 1st
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popularity : 84%
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alltime top: #22
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rulez added on the 2014-04-20 02:32:19 by mantratronic mantratronic
Effort.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 02:34:26 by Baudsurfer Baudsurfer
What mantratronic said.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 02:34:46 by Trilkk Trilkk
Holy fucking crap. It seemed to be disconnected at times and leading nowhere, but still: Holy fucking crap.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 02:36:59 by Saga Musix Saga Musix
Great scenes and effects, but ... I wished the colors of the scenes would fit them together in a better way. These scenes would have made 2-3 great demos in different styles, but as one demo they are too different for my taste. Anyway, all of them look awesome, so ... thumb up.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 02:37:26 by gaspode gaspode
Respect.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 02:39:22 by fizzer fizzer
i am impressed!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 02:41:31 by mueslee mueslee
just going to leave this here for the reasons discussed.
added on the 2014-04-20 02:43:03 by mudlord mudlord
Wonderfull <3
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 02:44:28 by Anat Anat
Fantastical
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 02:45:19 by Ramon B5 Ramon B5
Loving the effort to make it look real (for example dust on the lense).
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 02:48:08 by Salinga Salinga
I am really flashed! Great prod. Stunning.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 03:09:36 by Silvaheart Silvaheart
Great!!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 03:25:06 by iq iq
awesome release!
looks even better on big screen!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 03:32:11 by Ps0ke Ps0ke
black screen for me with music playing, Ati 270x win7
added on the 2014-04-20 03:44:19 by Xyl2k Xyl2k
Woah. Just woah. I was laying on the back, just by the bigscreen with some friends. When your prod was playing on, I thought “How the fuck did they do the cars?!”. Seriously, the whole thing : fantastic.

Awesome 64k, congrats!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 03:44:32 by phaazon phaazon
Influences I see: "Debris" (fr), "Square" (Still), the movie "Inception".
added on the 2014-04-20 03:47:17 by Salinga Salinga
Sehr sehr geil.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 04:25:33 by hfr hfr
Xyl2k: The beam slide said "works on ATI as soon as they support $something". So I guess it's nvidia-only at the moment. ;)
Awesome!
Best 64k I've seen in ages!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 04:39:54 by Frost Frost
really amazing!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 05:15:46 by substrate substrate
☿MERCURY

Message is loud and clear.

Somehow misses it on direction though. Best part is the greetings by far.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 07:35:20 by Zavie Zavie
Wowow wow! Love the water/underwater scenes, and greetings part.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 08:35:45 by Emod Emod
Oh wow, color me impressed.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 09:10:48 by decipher decipher
Holy shit!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 09:32:06 by Noobody Noobody
CRASH! :(

Precalc for a relatively long time and then crash. Second start, the precalc was nearly instantaneous and crash. Turned off riva tuner statistic server and closed Fraps, still crash. Reboot, crash. Aero is off. Every other imaginable demos from POUET run just fine on this rig:

Windows 7 64
Intel 2500K
GTX 660 driver 337.50 beta
16GB RAM
3 X 1680X1050 monitors
added on the 2014-04-20 09:43:02 by ramon ramon
well done.

(also, runs just fine under wine)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 09:52:00 by provod provod
.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 09:57:26 by pandur pandur
Rulez of course. Really nice "cars driving on wet road" part.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 10:00:37 by Corial Corial
AMAZING! thanks mercury!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 10:02:39 by hunta hunta
The long precalculation time was it worth. Just awesome!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 10:06:43 by Cj Cj
amazebawls!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 10:08:43 by alien^PDX alien^PDX
AMAZING intro! It was already time to kick Debris out of the all-time top :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 10:22:21 by Danguafer Danguafer
Warning: Too much awesomeness!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 10:26:28 by ham ham
The only thing I didn't like was the pseudo lens flare. The rest is pretty cool.

Btw, please record the HQ video of this demo. My PC can't handle this.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 10:56:11 by SubV SubV
Completely crazy stuff... awesome is insufficient to describe this! BTW, heavily influenced by the lovely Square which I also admire. Mercury FTW.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 11:02:07 by merry merry
Simply put.. f**k yeah!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 11:08:09 by djh0ffman djh0ffman
Wow. Quite amazing to watch on the big screen.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 11:12:08 by Starchaser Starchaser
When watching I expected it to end at any time, because how could you have that much content that looked so good? But even though they revisited locations it just kept going, and going ... and then *bam* the greetings with some fresh visuals which were just amazing.
Awesome!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 11:16:59 by RufUsul RufUsul
It's not Awesome. It's plain fucking Awesome!!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 11:18:22 by samurai samurai
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 11:28:26 by ritzu ritzu
The Times Square part saved it, the rest didn't look as good as most people seem to imply.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 11:52:29 by Gargaj Gargaj
Jawdropper!!

I wonder if this could have won the PC demo compo.. We will know tonite ;-)

Anway: Smash has no excuse anymore to make a comeback in the 64kb intro department. ;-) Keep your promise ;)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 11:52:43 by magic magic
Holy cow! First i thought it was some highly polished fly-by stuff, but when it started to twist, it just killed me. Greetings part was out of this world.
My deepest respect!
rulezcdc added on the 2014-04-20 11:55:40 by Hopper/SquoQuo Hopper/SquoQuo
if you know what's wrong with your code, why don't you fix it?
added on the 2014-04-20 11:58:56 by reptile reptile
wow! amazing! too bad i couldn't enjoy this on the big screen ..
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 11:59:48 by westlicht westlicht
this one is really fascinating. whenever you think "ok - that kicked arse, but now it's certainly over!" it'll go ahead with a scenery being even more impressive.

only criticism: the transition from the spiral-deforming roman-hallway-kinda-thing to the underwater world is quite irritating.
doesn't match any kind of audio/video sync and feels out of place.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 12:11:03 by keith303 keith303
random direction. but NNIIIICCEEEE lighting.
added on the 2014-04-20 12:13:14 by yumeji yumeji
ohh
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 12:18:44 by yumeji yumeji
dope shit is dope
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 12:20:06 by psenough psenough
yes.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 12:20:16 by menace menace
goddamn bloody water reflections ... SPLENDID !

and the colouring was gorgeous
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 12:27:57 by d0DgE d0DgE
The timeless... the SHIT!. that is a wonderful 64k!!!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 12:29:00 by CONS CONS
Splendid stuff
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 12:30:19 by Serpent Serpent
Impressive rendering, great scenes!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 12:50:02 by algorias algorias
OMG
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 12:53:35 by q^nonoil q^nonoil
A lot of things to nitpick, but I'm glad that this is finally THE intro that really puts those "mercury-shaders" to actual use. An intro that manages to surprise with new content in every turn, and keeps it enjoyable on multiple levels.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 12:54:03 by noby noby
ERMAGERD It's full of light!

AWESOME intro boys! You are mad! Everything is so beautiful I can't handle yet! \:D/
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 12:56:54 by rez rez
Very impressive one
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 13:05:15 by Rouquemoute Rouquemoute
breathless watching....
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 13:10:18 by Trauma Zero Trauma Zero
This rocks hard !
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 13:12:16 by guille^cocoon guille^cocoon
Wow! Just wow!
Amazing demo!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 13:19:06 by kt kt
total rules
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 13:20:12 by bitl bitl
The scenes felt a bit too disconnected, but damn if they weren't pretty
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 13:24:27 by Tarmil Tarmil
So many graphical techniques squeezed into just 64k. Unbeliveable.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 13:29:30 by JoaCHIP JoaCHIP
This kicked ass.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 13:47:56 by Zplex Zplex
O_o--b
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 13:48:08 by aha aha
Video please! :-)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 13:50:31 by highlife highlife
respect!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 13:55:10 by Skate Skate
Just saw the video link. Thanks, ritzu!
added on the 2014-04-20 14:00:01 by highlife highlife
Goodbye Farbrausch. Welcome MERCURY!
added on the 2014-04-20 14:00:30 by _docd^hjb _docd^hjb
Oh my.... Been a while since i saw an massive production like that! Very long, many nice scenes and a great tune and very very polished overall... Total respect :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 14:06:58 by Sapphire Sapphire
Well done! :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 14:21:10 by velo velo
EPIC is EPIC
having said that... a 780... ouch... far fetched :P
as many said, best greetings part evah
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 14:25:57 by EviL EviL
marbleous! ;)
64k genre is alive, indeed.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 14:27:35 by Manwe Manwe
Impressive greetings scene! Amazing.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 14:31:29 by novalis novalis
And yes, the music is very good!
added on the 2014-04-20 14:34:45 by Manwe Manwe
<3 Awesome!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 14:36:45 by xTr1m xTr1m
MASSIV!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 14:40:38 by bartman bartman
Fantastic :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 14:44:11 by shash shash
best of the year
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 14:46:21 by mop mop
Fuck yes. A new benchmark, not just for 64k intros, but also in post-processing.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 15:11:05 by kusma kusma
Very random, boring in the first half, some ugly scenes, mediocre music.. But other than that, rules of course. Nice "twist" too :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 15:14:15 by break break
City scene with traffic. .. epic!! My new fav demo group. Greetings from Australia!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 15:19:33 by reload reload
I support the Church of Voronoi.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 15:22:11 by ara ara
demoscene lives!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 15:23:56 by spritus spritus
I don't know where to start, because this is so great. Direction, music everything perfectly fits. Technically impressive (those underwater lensflares and city light scene at the end !). Quite long but never boring. I would give a cdc if i could. It also runs quite smootly on my old GTX560 card, which is not unpleasant. Good job guys !
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 15:34:44 by Tigrou Tigrou
LIEBLINGSDEMOGRUPPE! <34567
direction hasn't been mercury's forte so far, but it's slowly getting better i think. :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 15:51:00 by mouldyCat mouldyCat
Yes, yes, yes! Guys, please take your well deserved place in the top 10 now. It's about time...
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 15:54:52 by giZMo^fr giZMo^fr
awesome, love when it fucks with the geometry. awesome scenes. not flawless tho, direction could have been better.
added on the 2014-04-20 17:00:42 by Oswald Oswald
forgot
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 17:00:55 by Oswald Oswald
hot hot hot! seriously good stuff guys, well done! :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 18:09:51 by keito keito
best 64k intro ever. period.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 18:14:12 by oxb oxb
AWESOME
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 18:28:45 by Buckethead Buckethead
Amazing work! Where can we see the source code?
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 18:53:41 by yosh yosh
Fantastic! The marble stuff looked kinda bad in full light (especially the floor), but apart from that, truly great stuff. Literal jaw drop during the city traffic / greetings scene, which is one of the best scenes I've seen regardless of size limit. The short nod to inception was also nice, sort of wish you had done more of that.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 19:09:28 by eladamri eladamri
Finally a technically impressive release for modern machines again. It has been a while. Some tech write-up would be cool. :)

(As good as it looks, I wish those ghost lights would be attached to actual vehicles... :P)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 19:25:23 by tomaes tomaes
Best compo entry so far.

However, I was disappointed that the waves didn't destroy the city, and I didn't grok the storyline (if there is one).
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 19:36:20 by Y0Gi Y0Gi
This lacked consistency, but nice scenes and especially the greetings part was awesome.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 19:51:37 by Daddy Freddy Daddy Freddy
Wow!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 20:00:07 by strife strife
This was really cool! The best scenes are by far the "from-the-Still-playbook"-scenes (complete with color gradients and particles in the air), which makes those marble-scenes feel entirely out-of-place. A good direction from beginning to end would have benefitted this prod a lot, but still: when it shines it looks holy shit-good!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 20:12:59 by gloom gloom
Impressive!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 20:20:12 by Min Min
niiiice <3 <3
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 20:28:38 by spiikki spiikki
Finally, after several years, a 64k impresses me.
I like both the visuals and the tricks but, as someone else already noted, the storyline wasn't completely clear (honestly, if there's one, I didn't get it).
Anyway, good job! :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 20:42:08 by pan pan
Ridiculous! :D
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 20:48:06 by Korvkiosken Korvkiosken
Are you serious??
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 20:49:08 by -SP- -SP-
nice!!!!!!!!!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 21:25:04 by sINk sINk
Awesome on the big screen of the revision
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 21:31:06 by u2 u2
this is epically epic!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 21:40:15 by svo svo
Can be done in 10 MB!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 21:52:57 by sub sub
Nice mood!. Liked the physically sky and the lensflare work :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 21:54:08 by reality3D reality3D
Beautiful rendering, the light-effects and "camera flaw simulations" are ace!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 21:54:41 by Sdw Sdw
yes!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 21:58:02 by mrdoob mrdoob
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 21:59:46 by ferris ferris
of coz ..ossom
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 22:10:13 by kokeszko75 kokeszko75
Very nice!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 22:13:54 by Heiker Heiker
impressive!
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 22:16:13 by orange orange
Wow.

The direction was " hum... what ? " but the tech and audio easily make up for it.
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 22:16:33 by p01 p01
killer 64K
rulez added on the 2014-04-20 22:20:52 by gentleman gentleman
Wow... and WOW!! :O
rulezcdc added on the 2014-04-20 23:56:14 by Black Dragon Black Dragon
Massive production visually, especially the greetings part is AMAZING! However, both direction and story (if there was any) could be a lot better, so there's still room for improvement :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 00:26:09 by firebug firebug
mmm mmmm !!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 00:30:16 by Pandafox Pandafox
what gloom said, however the concept works quite well imho. did remind me a bit past which is good :).

each scene is beautifully crafted.
the greetings / night city scene is just awesome (and clever!), probably one of my favorite (greetings) scene ever.

you have raised the bar for PCC 64k, congratulations!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 00:54:11 by wullon wullon
If majestic kittens and diamonds were grinded into code, this would be the result.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 01:19:25 by Jae686 Jae686
Those lights. ^_^ - and the twisting city and the voronoi glass windows. So much things to love.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 01:21:58 by visy visy
Best 64k to have graced a bigscreen in a while.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 01:38:24 by ___ ___
My personal winner. Nothing else to say.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 02:13:49 by Photon Photon
Amazing work!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 05:08:07 by Ryououki Ryououki
dat tech!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 05:52:02 by san_im san_im
wait... 64k? oh shi~
added on the 2014-04-21 05:55:00 by san_im san_im
Love the night scene in the city with the lights, overall awesome! Though some effects/scenes are not as consistent and nice visually as some others (e.g the marble doesn't look good). Music gives a good demoscene feeling, liked it. Congrats!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 07:34:42 by xoofx xoofx
What gargaj said.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 09:53:38 by chromag chromag
What Gloom said.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 09:54:00 by Cosmocat Cosmocat
yes, this is awesome. perfect.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 10:09:22 by seppjo seppjo
Awesome DoF/bokeh. I love scenes that look like traditional triangles, but turn out to be raymarched.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 10:27:49 by bloodnok bloodnok
Direction seems completely random, well, I didn't get it. But damn, this is such an awesome effect pack !
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 10:37:26 by MsK` MsK`
extra Thumb up for the soundtrack !
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 10:48:31 by _docd^hjb _docd^hjb
102.000 youtube viewers already lol ;-)
added on the 2014-04-21 10:56:38 by magic magic
Weird (or no) direction, but the effects are definitely cool
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 11:37:15 by Jcl Jcl
a good 64k (in the current pond of really bad 64ks) - so well deserving of a big positive thumb.

but on the flip side, here's some objective criticism: bad direction, weak 3d scenes, dodgy lighting (whats up with your contact shadows/occlusion?), highly derivative content, nothing-concept (isnt it just random scenes?), slow, pretentious, bad framerate issues in places on a 680, some parts looking strangely low res (the city), dull soundtrack - all trying to hide behind a ridiculous amount of lens flare, huge glow and overshot dof.
the timesquare part works well though - probably because it plays to the strengths of the engine (i.e. tons of glow, and no lighting to worry about..).

i think ive said this about the last few mercury prods now but ill say it again - if mercury could direct, had good concepts and good scene content they could really deliver something special. as it is, it just always falls short of greatness.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 11:41:31 by smash smash
this doesn't make any sense anymore, crazy la la la la la laaa
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 11:43:08 by yzi yzi
Well deserved 1st place! :D
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 12:08:38 by Xanthe Xanthe
pleasant to watch one
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 12:13:31 by g0blinish g0blinish
what everbody said except me
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 12:26:23 by stfsux stfsux
Smash: you are just saying that so you dont have to make a new 64kb intro again ;-)
added on the 2014-04-21 12:27:26 by magic magic
Magic: i feel no pressing need or desire to :)
added on the 2014-04-21 12:42:08 by smash smash
Massive!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 12:44:32 by Korguiq Korguiq
Loved the lens flares and the times square scene. Other parts were good too, but the whole was a tad disjointed.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 12:51:12 by uncle-x uncle-x
Impressive.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 13:03:56 by Shadikka Shadikka
Can't get it to run on Windows 7. Won't work with Windows XP SP2 or SP3 compatibility mode. Won't run in admin mode. Won't run in 256-color mode.
added on the 2014-04-21 13:22:37 by danseur danseur
Massive amount of content, with some great lighting and lens effects. I really like the night city scene and those sci-fi buildings when they light up. Overall the scenes are quite generic though.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 14:15:55 by exocet exocet
Amazing stuff!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 14:47:03 by Otis^Infuse Otis^Infuse
Chapeau! Respect to the Mercury family... Well Done demonstration!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 16:00:57 by s7ing_ATZ s7ing_ATZ
Total eyecandy, but never gets to the point. Every snare roll made me believe that it would have gotten somewhere where it never got, and that became frustrating after a few scenes.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 16:03:53 by dixan dixan
Visually stunning, amazing postpro. Lacks a bit of direction, concept, camera work, so there is still room for improvement. Anyways, great prod!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 17:12:44 by jco jco
pretty much what others said
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 17:47:16 by Ger Ger
Farbrausch meets Fairlight meets ASD, gets 2014-era HD graphics on top and is squeezed into 64 kilobytes. Great stuff. The greetings scene is one of the best scenes I've ever seen in a demo.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 17:48:41 by Sesse Sesse
Impressive!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 18:12:01 by aech aech
o.O wow.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 18:26:33 by FOSTER FOSTER
Lotsa stuff!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 18:28:28 by Marq Marq
Sehr sehr geil.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 18:37:23 by SiR SiR
boring music, awesome code!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 19:23:08 by humphr3y humphr3y
"Awesome!"
a little hint for understanding the idea behind the scenes: https://startpage.com/do/search?q=%22the+timeless%22
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 20:07:14 by ro0mquy ro0mquy
awesome, love it!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 20:09:57 by blackpawn blackpawn
you won revision.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 20:12:29 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
Best PC prod this year :D.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 21:07:37 by elfan elfan
Jaw-dropping. Phenomenal.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 21:19:58 by Alopex Alopex
Congrats! This looks amazing.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 21:49:23 by glow glow
I think it was cupe who said in the stream that there was room for improvement still and I would agree. All the scenes felt very separate even if they had a similar theme(timeless buildings right?), but it didn't feel that way overall. Switching between scenes just didn't seem to be that smooth, if you know what I mean. Also the scene were you had the infinite hallway with the pillars felt very plain, it needed more color, stronger shadows and variation(too much repeating patterns to me atleast). The city scene had quite a lot of brown and green color, I'm not a big expert on colors but I would say it didn't work that well.

But overall this production looked technically frickin awesome. It had a lot of stuff crammed into it. Models looked really great and I really enjoy the bokeh stuff, also the camera movement was near perfect.

The best 64k so far.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 22:06:05 by MuffinHop MuffinHop
As usual with something that impressive you would want to go even further and fix small issues (i.e. too much lens-flares, rendering/lighting artifacts), however, its still way above most 64k intros out there!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 22:10:39 by tomkh tomkh
Some people hinted that I might love this. And it's impossible not to :-) The technology and colors are just breathtaking. There is no question that Mercury is now the solid leader in PC post-processing and color-grading... Jesus - I'm so jealous!

But on the other hand... There is still sooooo much potential in this one. I don't agree with all things smash said, but still: I can't believe you did this. I'm going to have nightmares on dreaming about retiming it. It would have been so easy to drastically improve its impact by leaving out a couple of scenes, arranging the order to tell a little story, aligning the pace the to music and tweaking some camera perspectives. I beg you to make a final. Study TBL: how they take so lala content and just by presenting (or should I say "selling it") perfectly, they lift their stuff to an entire different league. If you would add a grain of TBL to your stuff, most of your serious release might end up in the top 10. This one might even without, but compared to "Debris" I assume will quickly loose its impact over the years.

But hey: That's all criticizing something that already a million levels above the average demoscene level (and including myself). So, I'm quiet humbled by being greeting! (And please don't stop to do so :-) )

Btw: Shame that you couldn't give your seminar on color-grading. Would have fitted perfectly. Looks like I finally have to tackle this topic more seriously.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 22:14:49 by pixtur pixtur
Probably nothing more I can add to what has already been said before... but jesus.. that was the best intro I have seen in a long time.
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 22:23:13 by darkus darkus
Awesome!
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 22:30:35 by puppeh puppeh
Stained-glass windows effects are stunning ! The whole prod is impressive !
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 22:30:43 by Hexogen Hexogen
Hi guys, amazed by the demo! Amazing work! What language, is that C/C++?
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 22:35:04 by anonymous-gamer anonymous-gamer
fucking amazing, i love this. Even more after urs explained the background of the story to me :)
rulezcdc added on the 2014-04-21 23:44:39 by skomp skomp
I enjoyed this (except the marble stuff).
rulez added on the 2014-04-21 23:56:26 by datsua datsua
Big thumbs! Lens flares, bloom and lens dirt does a lot to sell it, especially the night scene.
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 00:03:59 by Claw Claw
Should have written my comment after getting some sleep. An edit feature would come in handy now. Doh!
added on the 2014-04-22 00:31:37 by pixtur pixtur
no nightmares?
added on the 2014-04-22 01:06:09 by skomp skomp
\o/
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 02:55:33 by nhi nhi
Awesome!
Yeah, Best 64k intro I ever seen!!
rulezcdc added on the 2014-04-22 03:30:28 by FL1NE FL1NE
Really, really, really awesome. This one'll go down in scene history.
Please, though, after you guys get some rest and time away, come back and make a final! This demo deserves to be remembered in super-polished form!
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 05:22:18 by MidKnight MidKnight
Looks really awesome and I love the lens flares.
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 07:07:30 by chock chock
Feel the same as I've felt when watching .the .product for the first time. Really, really impressive technically, but lacks everything else - it's basically "just" exceptionally pretty random flyby. While I realize it's strengths, I can't say I was blown away by it.
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 07:43:08 by Jailbird Jailbird
+ if Michael Bay was doing demos.
added on the 2014-04-22 07:44:38 by Jailbird Jailbird
Some of the scenes here looks really really great!
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 09:02:04 by Proteque Proteque
Bass in the music!
Water with max foam looked very fake and city was a bit meh, but otherwise this intro looks totally fine as did Luma.
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 09:03:19 by leGend leGend
great stuff and nice vibe on the party but so far no luck with REAL HARDWARE - dual titans, i7 & 64 gigs. watching such stuff off yt is bs. ideas?
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 10:26:37 by comankh comankh
Very random scenes, which don't seem connected at all. A little bit of effort / direction could have elevated this one way above what it actually achieved. But damn, still great music, superb greetings scene and overall great scenes that look amazing.
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 10:49:22 by elend elend
Styles not my thing, but really good
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 11:07:51 by halcy halcy
Almost didn't find any scenario/direction, just camera rolls. But end scene impress much. And I think on bigscreen it was visual bomb! So thumb up.
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 11:08:57 by Raynoa Raynoa
Much has been said about this intro, and I agree with a lot of it (both positive and negative)

As a musician I must add that the soundtrack does add to the atmosphere in many places, but also feels somewhat empty during a lot of the intro - at least that's my personal opinion.

One can not let this intro go unthumbed - great work by the whole team - and thanks for one of _the_ highlights at Revision 2014!
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 11:28:48 by Puryx Puryx
64k is killed again, tihs time with raymarching
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 11:31:10 by pista pista
fantastic
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 11:46:14 by Canopy Canopy
Amazing...
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 12:20:54 by dstar dstar
maybe the best 64k nowadays. Massive work!
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 12:22:14 by neoman neoman
Probably the best Windows 64k ever made...
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 13:16:44 by argasek argasek
Massive!
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 14:02:56 by Intrinsic Intrinsic
geht doch
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 15:18:46 by Warhead Warhead
I don't quite get the massive hype (or people are this desperate for good 64k's, dunno :), it's just a solid tech show. A really good one at that, but unfortunately it falls short in all the departments that would make it memorable.
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 15:23:37 by zoom zoom
Great prod!
The music reminds me of the endpart in oxyrons Dawnfall
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1418
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 15:50:35 by medron medron
Wonderful production! Belongs to my favorites now! :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 18:40:32 by Kojote Kojote
What everybody says...
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 20:37:44 by mutti mutti
This was awesome on the big screen! Really liked the traffic sequence in particular :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 21:36:51 by Zonbie Zonbie
rocked the party!
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 21:45:37 by mad mad
Supergeil!
rulez added on the 2014-04-22 23:52:25 by h4xor h4xor
Speechless....Bombe!!!!
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 00:57:38 by maniac maniac
Each scene on its own is massively amazing - the colours, the rendering, the code. I also love the music.

But the direction appears to be utterly random. Did you get rushed in the end? You MUST do a final to fix this, otherwise timeless will not be timeless. I think pixtur said it best.

DO A FINAL PLZ!!
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 01:00:57 by Calexico Calexico
wow!
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 01:15:43 by spiny spiny
Freaking hell. This is awesome.
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 01:42:21 by iks iks
Amazing
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 08:20:36 by deadscene deadscene
Watch dogs in 64k!!
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 11:29:15 by BackSpace BackSpace
Wow. Especially the credits scene.
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 13:15:09 by raer raer
Clean your damn lens!
I really liked this and the twist really bought me over. Congrats!
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 13:59:28 by cxnull cxnull
Darf ich Dir sagen dass Du eine sehr sehr geile Demo bist? Supergeil.
added on the 2014-04-23 14:38:58 by h4xor h4xor
Awesome despite the lack of lasball!
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 14:41:59 by D.Fox D.Fox
Lots of content (some of it doesn't look that good though), good tune and what a greetings part!
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 14:49:15 by StingRay StingRay
Proper eyecandy.
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 15:57:55 by rp rp
Best PC prod by far at Revision this year!
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 15:58:46 by toms toms
cool prod. underated.
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 16:11:13 by Bartoshe Bartoshe
Worked perfectly fine on my GTX660Ti btw. Just a few scenes that didn't entirely run full framerate :3
added on the 2014-04-23 17:50:25 by ___ ___
some scenes/materials extremely 90's looking, but i guess that's the price you have to pay for now. but it shows what kind of visual madness we can expect in 5 years or so.
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 18:52:10 by toxie toxie
Very nice.
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 19:53:16 by jimmi jimmi
Impressive
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 20:20:41 by flure flure
Awesome. Waves are very cool !
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 20:56:25 by Hellflip Hellflip
This one blew my mind!
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 21:08:39 by wurstgetrank wurstgetrank
Just do not know how the waves came into the desert. Some very nice parts and a lot going on here.
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 22:04:57 by Zweckform Zweckform
Everything roxxx except the marble madness
rulez added on the 2014-04-23 23:54:59 by Cyg_BLaBla Cyg_BLaBla
+1 for a final version: I wish it was shorter, more consistent, with less reuse of the same thing over and over with just a small change here and there, also make the marble less 'default POV 1.0 material' (dirty would be cool).
rulez added on the 2014-04-24 09:34:18 by Dbug Dbug
i don't know.. somehow left me cold.
i liked the ocean wave stuff best.
sure a lot of work has gone into this, and there's lots of nice tech here. but then there's so much cheesy and pretentious stuff..
next time more style and less posing please :)
added on the 2014-04-24 09:53:09 by arm1n arm1n
I really like the physicality of the rendering. The fact that there appears to be an atmosphere with dust, flares, all that stuff. That's nice. Some of the scenes are also lovely, but most of them are really not that interesting to look at (the 'daytime' cityscape, the church) imho.

The lack of direction really hurts this intro. I hope the next Mercury release will have a designer looking at it and throwing out 50% of the stuff, so what remains is a tight, gorgeous-looking production. Without that marble texture.

Anyway, it's still miles better than the rest of the 64k's that get released nowadays, so thumb :)
rulez added on the 2014-04-24 10:20:05 by sagacity sagacity
awesome code!
rulez added on the 2014-04-24 11:05:11 by st0ff st0ff
Impressive to see so much things in 64k.
The city by night was the highlight of the show!
rulez added on the 2014-04-24 11:06:41 by Hicks Hicks
Oh yes! ♥ the neon light scene the most too!
Direction is very meh tho! But congrats anyway!! :]
rulez added on the 2014-04-24 13:05:30 by ewerybody ewerybody
Super Wellen, super Lichter, super Lensflares, super geil :)
added on the 2014-04-24 16:26:28 by xTr1m xTr1m
Nothing to be done better here!
I simply ♥ it!
rulez added on the 2014-04-24 19:15:20 by ɧ4ɾɗվ. ɧ4ɾɗվ.
oh wow!!!!
rulez added on the 2014-04-24 20:11:04 by SX1Freak SX1Freak
Wow, just wow!!!
rulez added on the 2014-04-24 20:54:07 by Optimus Optimus
Love it! Love it! Love it!!! Time and again! I like every single scene, and the water reflections remind me on Australia! Keep goin' guys!
rulez added on the 2014-04-24 21:06:27 by gigadet gigadet
Shieeeeeeeeeeeeeet
rulez added on the 2014-04-24 21:07:34 by Peak Peak
<3
rulez added on the 2014-04-24 21:29:05 by thec thec
coooool
rulez added on the 2014-04-24 22:39:16 by decca decca
The last part with credits and cars lights is just brillant
rulez added on the 2014-04-25 00:11:26 by leonard leonard
Absolutely spectacular scenes! Love the ocean waves, the cathedral windows, the twisting paths, the night cityscape. And the music breathes a nice coating of threatening atmosphere to it all. Just awesome!
rulez added on the 2014-04-25 01:11:52 by SunSpire SunSpire
Crashes on precalc for me. Just as the progress bar gets to the C in Mercury, the following error is thrown in debugger:

"Unhandled exception at 0x696399ef in hg_the_timeless.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000080."

Call stack ends in nvoglv32.dll!696399ef()

Win 8.1 (tried all compatibility settings), GTX670, latest drivers.

Loved the video of it though, just a shame I can't see it in all its 64K glory. Hope the final works :P
rulez added on the 2014-04-25 01:35:18 by pablo256 pablo256
Beautiful!
rulez added on the 2014-04-25 08:24:47 by Blueberry Blueberry
Of course this deserves a thumb up for the visuals. Except maybe for the marble scenes, this looks amazing! And the city at night scene with the "faked" cars is clever and awesome! Although at one point you can clearly see detached lights at close distance which somewhat breaks the illusion, but that's the only lapse.

Too bad the demo lacks cohesion and a clearer concept. I showed this to my (non-demoscener) wife, and her reaction was "look nice, but what has the first scene to do with the second or the following? Is it random?"...
rulez added on the 2014-04-25 09:36:22 by Kylearan Kylearan
!
rulez added on the 2014-04-25 10:33:28 by emha76 emha76
holy shit. total 2014 demoscene pr0n. Irre!!!
rulez added on the 2014-04-25 16:46:57 by twh twh
What zoom said. And what Gloom said.

Getting rid of a few scenes, drop the kaleidoscope and use the left over bytes for some interesting to happen in the scenes left would have have liftet this to a whole new and memorable level.

Fish in the underwaterscenes?
Some activity/city life in the dayligt scene too?

Marble scenes - wtf?! :)

But eye candy it is.
rulez added on the 2014-04-25 17:04:58 by maytz maytz
Solid.
rulez added on the 2014-04-25 22:20:02 by Tolle Tolle
Traffic scene!

Brilliantly executed.
rulez added on the 2014-04-26 13:24:45 by Deus Deus
No lasball
sucks added on the 2014-04-26 13:48:03 by cce cce
totally awesome! you're creating a mysterious world full of beauty. the epic soundrack does grat support building the athmosphere. i especially liked the ligning and shadowplay as well as the gorgeous night city scene.
i only wish it would run on my amd graphics-card.
rulez added on the 2014-04-26 15:39:14 by v3nom v3nom
btw. only thing i disliked was the marble texture
added on the 2014-04-26 15:54:29 by v3nom v3nom
One more thing:

I still like it, but its arguable that making intros that are not a slideshow (not even talking about smooth framerate here) only really high-end GPUs is a good practice.

On the other hand, raymarching might get faster and faster over time.

Interestingly nowadays you could make an intro pretty quickly, but taking some decent raymarching shaders from shadertoy (i.e. www.shadertoy.com/view/lsXGWl ) and add music to it ; )
added on the 2014-04-26 16:58:56 by tomkh tomkh
Bah, no ATI video card support. :(

Anyways, pretty on YouTube. :)
added on the 2014-04-26 18:30:02 by AntDude AntDude
There is a little bit of everything I hate in 90% of demoscene productions. Reusing scenes. Showing off your texture generator. Camera path that feels like the camera has no weight. Natural scenes that feels off. Thanks god there is no saturated whites.
It might be technically good, I don't know, and I don't care, it left me completely cold because I was annoyed by those typical problems.
added on the 2014-04-26 19:39:42 by ponce ponce
A bit random and about a minute too long, but with such tech those are only minor drawbacks :). Rules!
rulez added on the 2014-04-26 19:50:23 by Alpha C Alpha C
The waves, the twist and the signs..... Well done!
rulez added on the 2014-04-26 20:21:50 by Frequent Frequent
well done,
close to debris
rulez added on the 2014-04-27 00:00:04 by jok jok
I especially like the part with the hexagonal lens flares.
rulez added on the 2014-04-27 00:34:42 by Charlie Charlie
This is an amazing demo, its a real shame it is plagued by this crash for many people. If anyone has an idea how to fix this please post.

Geforce GTX 680, I7-2700k Processor, Win 7 64bit.

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: hg_the_timeless.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 535292bd
Fault Module Name: nvoglv32.DLL
Fault Module Version: 9.18.13.3750
Fault Module Timestamp: 533347c7
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 006699ef
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
rulez added on the 2014-04-27 05:49:10 by scenelover78 scenelover78
ok, this is pretty fucking good

especially the music

but, if it 10 fps on fucking youtube, what would be it is on real hardware????
rulez added on the 2014-04-27 18:10:56 by blala blala
Error details

GTX 660 (driver 337.50), i5-2500K, Win 7 64:

Faulting application name: The_timeless.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x535292bd
Faulting module name: nvoglv32.DLL, version: 9.18.13.3750, time stamp: 0x533347c7
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x006699ef
Faulting process id: 0x2c18
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf6237d0c67130
Faulting application path: D:\_PC_Demo\64k\The_timeless.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\nvoglv32.DLL
Report Id: 11c5925e-ce2b-11e3-9e90-fc22418c611c
added on the 2014-04-27 18:48:17 by ramon ramon
UPDATE: Crash at intro with Nvidia driver 337.50 Beta. Work fine now after downgrading to 335.23.
rulez added on the 2014-04-28 02:28:01 by ramon ramon
Amazing! The night city / greetings effect is one of the best things I've ever seen on da scene.
rulez added on the 2014-04-28 10:46:43 by slayer slayer
that was a blast :D
rulez added on the 2014-04-28 16:54:22 by nekomono nekomono
greetings part is ossom!

blala: it ran fine on 770, so doesnt require as highend stuff as you imply ;)
rulez added on the 2014-04-28 16:57:45 by maali maali
In my face!
rulez added on the 2014-04-28 16:58:32 by ok3anos ok3anos
Nicely done
rulez added on the 2014-04-28 17:14:34 by cxw cxw
City in the night is awesome. A specially lights without cars.
rulez added on the 2014-04-28 22:43:34 by Lovely Hanibal Lovely Hanibal
Hats off.

(btw: I have pinged AMD about the issue you reported. Would be great if you could drop me an e-mail, you can find my address in my profile)
rulez added on the 2014-04-28 22:53:38 by kbi kbi
Once in a while, someone makes one of these and then we all feel alive for a while. Thank you.
rulez added on the 2014-04-28 23:08:49 by Preacher Preacher
Jaw droppingly beautiful scenes. I must have watched the youtube about 15 times already, AMD and 5 yr old PC so no fun running it myself for me :(
rulez added on the 2014-04-29 02:45:33 by Thorjak Thorjak
Beautiful!
rulez added on the 2014-04-29 12:21:31 by baah baah
what preacher said!
rulez added on the 2014-04-29 15:58:42 by bonefish bonefish
what ramon said: Crash at intro with Nvidia driver 337.50 Beta. Work fine now after downgrading to 335.23.
added on the 2014-04-29 16:00:30 by comankh comankh
I'm looking forward for this to enter the "all time top".
rulez added on the 2014-04-29 18:32:44 by TLM TLM
We have just updated the file in the archive with workarounds for two bugs that the nvidia 337.50 beta driver introduces. I'd recommend not using this driver version :)
(This is not the final, we've just started working on it). Except for the workarounds it's exactly the same as the partyversion.

Thanks for all your comments <3
added on the 2014-04-29 23:05:23 by cupe cupe
really impressive!
rulez added on the 2014-04-30 00:57:39 by 0rel 0rel
Geil intro! Piece of info: the street scenes provide me with approx. 3 to 4 FPS. :) --> i7-3610QM 2,3 GHz, Windows 7 64 bit
rulez added on the 2014-04-30 09:33:02 by netpoet netpoet
now do a remix of it in 4k )
rulez added on the 2014-04-30 10:13:49 by randomi randomi
A well-deserved win.
rulez added on the 2014-04-30 15:31:36 by Steltek Steltek
Code, colours, music, direction. It all felt epic. It's actually amazing that there is room for improvement in content and effects given how wonderful this is already. The 'Time Square' part was astonishing and raised the whole intro another level. Top ten.
rulez added on the 2014-05-01 08:20:48 by auld auld
PLEASE: More resolutions! :)

1360X768
1440X900
1680X1050 (---- Me!
1920X1080

I want to see this masterpiece @ native resolution on my screen!
added on the 2014-05-01 19:22:33 by ramon ramon
What everyone else said. I liked the marble texture!
rulez added on the 2014-05-02 20:53:57 by blueghost blueghost
Absolute great.
rulez added on the 2014-05-04 03:55:41 by Chainsaw Chainsaw
This was really impressive!
rulez added on the 2014-05-04 10:15:36 by [Nik] [Nik]
this is so impressive! i love the waves, the little "inception"-reference and those marble textures. great music (thank you! you did not ruin the intro with wobwob to the max) and great variety. the greetings part is a class of its own. i actually would have also thumbed it up if it had 20mb. but 64k? I actually feel bad that I only can thumb it up once. i know where my next cdc goes to.
rulezcdc added on the 2014-05-04 10:49:05 by sensenstahl sensenstahl
What sensenstahl said :)
rulez added on the 2014-05-04 20:30:08 by insane insane
yep!
rulez added on the 2014-05-06 06:08:20 by kyv kyv
Extremely Good
rulez added on the 2014-05-06 10:06:04 by laz33rr laz33rr
beautiful! awesome lighting fx... and those waves!
rulez added on the 2014-05-07 06:46:06 by CrzyClst CrzyClst
Thanks so much for releasing that patch. Works great with 337.50 driver now on GTX 680. Epic 64k, brilliant!
the product will make you happy!
rulez added on the 2014-05-10 13:24:45 by merkur merkur
Really cool, especially the city at night.
rulez added on the 2014-05-12 20:41:23 by RA RA
Impressive!
rulez added on the 2014-05-15 00:55:25 by muh muh
on of my next cdcs could easily land here
rulez added on the 2014-05-16 14:13:48 by HellMood HellMood
great work, so nice !
rulez added on the 2014-05-16 18:47:08 by Sylvao Sylvao
Beautyful.
rulez added on the 2014-05-17 12:04:58 by cruzer cruzer
this is just COOL! O_o
rulez added on the 2014-05-18 03:47:46 by .. ..
wow, just wow.
rulez added on the 2014-05-18 11:51:17 by 4kum4 4kum4
awesome <3
rulez added on the 2014-05-19 01:30:55 by Lycan Lycan
This is sooo cool. <3
rulezcdc added on the 2014-05-22 19:25:28 by rimina rimina
Fantastic!
rulez added on the 2014-06-08 03:08:03 by Wiklund Wiklund
What a pleasure,

Bro´s thats kinda fine stuff and makes my willi rather hard !

TOP !
rulez added on the 2014-06-13 13:10:51 by AMItac_TSA AMItac_TSA
forgotten thumb!
rulez added on the 2014-06-13 13:19:31 by dwarf dwarf
what gargaj said
rulez added on the 2014-06-22 01:25:08 by T$ T$
fuck yeah!
rulez added on the 2014-07-06 19:23:38 by fyrex fyrex
Very nice rendering, lots of details in the rendering engine. You guys did a fantastic job of putting current graphics style and tech in a 64k demo. I was also surprised how well it ran on my machine considering my video card is only average.
rulez added on the 2014-07-19 23:49:00 by drift drift
Probably top 5 demos I've seen in my life, omg.
added on the 2014-07-25 23:45:19 by lachose1 lachose1
We just released the final version during the assembly demoshow \o/

Fixes include a few technical and performance things as well as many small and not so small aesthetic changes.

Get it from here or watch the high-res video. Download links on pouet should be updated soon and a youtube upload will follow.

We have reasons to believe that the final version will run on some future AMD driver since we have fixed our bugs and AMD has acknowledged issues in their driver that prevent it from running. Sorry, not yet.
added on the 2014-08-01 01:11:39 by cupe cupe
Now this deserves a thumb.
rulez added on the 2014-08-01 01:43:34 by mudlord mudlord
That's pretty close to perfect. Milestone! Congratulations.

One tiny critique: the camera is occasionally moving a little fast, making the scene appear unneccesarily small.
rulez added on the 2014-08-01 08:40:06 by revival revival
... at some spots I actually think the final version is a step back direction wise.
added on the 2014-08-01 11:49:03 by Salinga Salinga
I need another thumb.
added on the 2014-08-01 12:08:46 by gaspode gaspode
I like that you made the tunnel and the inception scene longer. Overall a great final!
added on the 2014-08-01 12:23:19 by velo velo
i kind of agree with Salinga. in some scenes (e.g. marble stuff, church, rusty sci-fi buildings) the camera paths got a lot worse in the final :)
added on the 2014-08-01 12:23:46 by maali maali
A final!
Cupe talked me into uploading this re-edit: https://vimeo.com/102303741
added on the 2014-08-01 13:59:15 by pixtur pixtur
Oh good job with the final. Not as radical as I had hoped, but excellent work. The fractalesque cathedral blew my mind!

BTW: The side by side youtube comparison is slick.
added on the 2014-08-01 14:07:33 by pixtur pixtur
pixtur: Wow, now I want to see that version in realtime without the jerky motion. Well done remix! :)
And of course well done final version!
Thanks for the final! I look forward to watching it in realtime on my AMD soon!
Direction-wise i really love pixturs re-edit. It does a great job in creating that mysterious athmosphere the imagenary is screaming for.
added on the 2014-08-02 09:17:38 by v3nom v3nom
Whoa, Pixtur's remix just blew my mind. Amazing how different basically the same visuals can feel with a different direction and soundtrack. Very, very cool!

I wish I understood what's going on there.
added on the 2014-08-02 10:12:43 by Kylearan Kylearan
i want to thumb it up again :)
added on the 2014-08-03 19:34:10 by seppjo seppjo
<3
rulez added on the 2014-08-09 23:54:24 by uncle_H uncle_H
This is so good in so many levels.
rulez added on the 2014-08-17 18:11:33 by skirk skirk
Amazing music. Astounding sound elements and drones in there. I have no comment on such spectacular graphics!
rulez added on the 2014-08-19 16:19:46 by potasmic potasmic
Before I get back to the shadows from whence I came, I wanted to say that it's an exquisite production. red, las, proud of you guys :)

Much love <3
rulez added on the 2014-09-07 22:30:37 by skizo skizo
unbelieveable, is it really 64 kb? mercury, you rule!
rulez added on the 2014-09-23 14:16:36 by anvil's earwax anvil's earwax
My eyes love it
rulez added on the 2014-09-24 18:16:10 by Maissi Maissi
im glad to see technology wise how much 64k's have been improved since .dot product by farbrausch.

positives: - title and music - ocean water and out of focus hexagon lenses - (most of textures) and 3d-objects - city part - one outdoor scene and the last indoor scene -

critics: - direction wise: includes ambiance of some of the scenes (might be the colors, or might be how the textures are used) - switching to much between the scenes - should have sticked to three or four individual parts and make them blend more smoothly together imho.

still think this is an good 64k-technology show, and dont think the people behind it put that much effort in making the direction look good (unless they wanted it to be like that). i think they made alot of effort puting this together even, so thumbs up.
rulez added on the 2014-10-08 00:42:15 by rudi rudi
I fuckin liked it.
rulez added on the 2014-11-01 06:25:55 by Negostrike Negostrike
Was all good, until greets section. Then it was was 'mazing
rulez added on the 2014-11-06 20:49:00 by Mtl Mtl
Exactly what Mti said.
rulez added on the 2014-11-22 13:29:41 by The_Grandmother The_Grandmother
Delivering on our (and ATi's) promise, apparently the current ATi driver (Catalyst 14.12) is able to run this prod \o/
added on the 2014-12-11 13:23:55 by cupe cupe
i pressed esc.
this was so boring and kitschy, just like blockbuster movies.
sucks added on the 2014-12-12 21:33:52 by kimi kardashian kimi kardashian
We just fixed a bug that made the water scene not show up when running recent nvidia drivers (one shader didn't compile anymore). Download has been updated.
added on the 2015-01-12 17:53:20 by cupe cupe
YAY for AMD-Support \0/ Looking forward to watch it in realtime when i come home today!
added on the 2015-01-12 17:58:08 by v3nom v3nom
OMG, this 64k is so diverse and rich, I would expect such performance from a full-fledged demo! In fact, I like this one more than the 1st ranked demo from this party. Thanks a lot! Great work!
rulez added on the 2015-01-21 03:31:22 by MichaelB MichaelB
I have an Sapphire R9 270X Dual-X 2GB
I see the launch screen with Mercury.
Than the music starts, blue screen with a black square on the left side.

CPU : AMD Phenom II x6 1090T
RAM : 12GB DDR3 RAM
GPU : Sapphire Dual-X R9 270X 2GB
added on the 2015-02-16 15:44:06 by MISTERAMD MISTERAMD
загрузка 5% тормоз :( AMD R9 270x ( 13.12 ) :(
added on the 2015-03-05 10:05:10 by DIMABOOZ DIMABOOZ
Fantastic!
rulez added on the 2015-03-08 09:52:32 by Alone_Coder Alone_Coder
Работает AMD R9 270x (14.12) плохо эффект :/
rulez added on the 2015-03-13 21:48:03 by DIMABOOZ DIMABOOZ
So,..why didn't I thumbed this up yet?
I'm curious if it will win any awards.
rulez added on the 2015-03-29 05:22:26 by numtek numtek
Wait, I didn't even thumb this up? Argh, I'm an idiot.
rulez added on the 2015-04-04 21:44:35 by TheT(ourist) TheT(ourist)
Inspiring stuff! The best 64k intro I have seen so far.

Personally I would have made it a bit shorter.
rulez added on the 2015-04-05 03:06:45 by Toffeeman Toffeeman
8/10
rulez added on the 2015-04-05 22:25:57 by Lacrimael Lacrimael
WHAT?
rulez added on the 2015-04-06 09:31:11 by w00t! w00t!
at least the important scenes work now on AMD R9 series! just one scene is bright pink (the desert scene). but the best scenes (water and traffic) are purrfect!
rulez added on the 2015-04-07 11:04:54 by plonk420 plonk420
Incredible!
rulez added on the 2015-04-08 11:35:45 by SkyLyrac SkyLyrac
that's really really really awesome

and that track! so lovely
Wow! Speechlesssssssss
rulez added on the 2015-04-27 22:37:16 by whizart whizart
Traffic scene - just wow.
rulez added on the 2015-06-17 19:36:42 by Jakim Jakim
Technically superb, out of this world. Directing could be better.
rulez added on the 2015-08-05 01:43:59 by DickThunder DickThunder
\o/
rulez added on the 2015-09-22 21:32:41 by Maugli Maugli
Interestingly, the initial awe from the year ago when I saw this intro the first time has given place to a more neutral, somewhat critical evaluation I'm approaching it now. That being said, it's still an A+ for effort. Just wish it left more of an impact.
rulez added on the 2015-10-05 04:30:59 by moozooh moozooh
simon ley mastery
rulez added on the 2015-10-12 10:04:14 by 1in10 1in10
Just watched it for the first time. Awestruck. For 64kb it's up there with the best prods of all time for me.
rulez added on the 2015-10-21 14:09:45 by baldrick baldrick
So impressive on its own terms, and even more being a 64k demo. Greetings section is the icing on the cake.
rulez added on the 2015-11-15 14:33:12 by animehaus animehaus
Very nice!
rulez added on the 2015-11-24 20:23:30 by Flops Flops
i fucking love this intro.
Работает AMD HD 7790 (16.5.2) хорошо эффект :)
added on the 2016-05-18 13:12:38 by DIMABOOZ DIMABOOZ
One of the best .
rulez added on the 2016-05-29 02:11:03 by golem golem
I think it's the best 64k demo.
rulez added on the 2016-08-02 16:52:25 by co3moz co3moz
Amazing scenes, post-process and overall just awesomesauce.
Sure, it ran in like 20FPS over here but still I was enjoying myself. :D
rulez added on the 2016-08-29 23:43:01 by TomoAlien TomoAlien
<3
rulez added on the 2016-09-28 23:27:55 by ccr ccr
Panda Free Antivirus deletes exe at once... :(
Damn me, I didn't thumb this yet?

@Clemens: anti-virus detection ain't that uncommon because the intro use similar algorithms to crunch the data, but now really you can trust the executables linked here
rulez added on the 2016-10-09 17:52:32 by Triace Triace
effin' masterpiece
rulez added on the 2017-02-09 18:16:08 by nagz nagz
when you die, this is what happens while you are passing to another side
rulez added on the 2017-06-06 13:37:01 by natalia natalia
AWSOME!
rulez added on the 2017-07-30 00:45:55 by Volantis Volantis
Neat, but slow as hell. Ryzen 1700x/64gb/8gb Vega 64.
Looks like driver problem.
what a content for 64k :o
rulez added on the 2018-09-11 22:32:07 by TomCatAbaddon TomCatAbaddon
i love how conduit starts dosbox for this :p
added on the 2018-09-26 23:51:00 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
hot stuff
rulez added on the 2018-09-27 00:16:53 by lsl lsl
I like the Inception like effects in the city landscape and tiltshift and lighting all around. absolutely astonishing
rulez added on the 2018-10-06 12:30:04 by hollowone hollowone
wow missed a glop here, I really enjoyed it back then.
rulez added on the 2018-10-06 12:32:08 by skarab skarab
Nice 64k demo missed to glop it reminds me a bunch of Debris and other demos but great homage
rulez added on the 2018-11-04 12:33:26 by Queen_Luna Queen_Luna
this is what first got me into demoscene. still amazing 5 years on
rulezcdc added on the 2019-06-06 06:07:28 by blackle blackle
Quote:
We just released the final version during the assembly demoshow \o/

Fixes include a few technical and performance things as well as many small and not so small aesthetic changes.

Get it from here or watch the high-res video. Download links on pouet should be updated soon and a youtube upload will follow.

We have reasons to believe that the final version will run on some future AMD driver since we have fixed our bugs and AMD has acknowledged issues in their driver that prevent it from running. Sorry, not yet.


I uploaded the HQ video above, which is no longer online, to archive.org: https://archive.org/download/thetimeless_final/thetimeless_final.mp4
rulez added on the 2020-02-24 15:27:22 by ner0 ner0
rewatch time.
Great!
rulez added on the 2020-06-12 23:29:57 by Emufr3ak Emufr3ak
Well, abductee sended me this unrelated to the question, lol. Anyway time to rewatch.
That's why kids should learn tropical mathematics & geometry. Insane use of procedural geometry. Absolutely brilliant Demo. Bravo.
rulez added on the 2021-04-05 13:36:33 by TrueNeutralEvGen TrueNeutralEvGen
This is nice and enjoyable. 11-30 FPS at 3840 x 2160 with a 1080 Ti. New benchmarking tool. GPU utilization: 100%
rulez added on the 2022-06-27 21:28:18 by hexen hexen
AY YO THIS HAS THE CATHEADRAL FROM THE SEMINAR!

Wish you'd release the source, it's been so long and I wanna learn your techniques.
rulez added on the 2022-11-30 18:16:09 by MrSynAckSter MrSynAckSter
Бог есть?
rulez added on the 2023-03-25 09:32:01 by ded^RMDA ded^RMDA
2nd best Demo ever been made!
(Masagin better! this being an intro, this best of all 64ks!)
That was sweet!
rulez added on the 2023-11-26 12:48:13 by noglin noglin
re-watch time!

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