DX11 Tech preview "Heaven Benchmark"

The Unigine team have released a new tech demo called "Heaven Benchmark" to show the advantage of using DX11 for Hardware tessellation purpose.

The following features are demonstrated:

Support of DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11 and OpenGL

Comprehensive use of tessellation technology

Advanced SSAO (screen-space ambient occlusion)

Volumetric cumulonimbus clouds generated by a physically accurate algorithm

Dynamic sky with light scattering

Interactive experience with fly/walk-through modes

Benchmark mode

 The video of the demo:

To see in real time the Hardware tessellation you can see this video (Tessellation On/Off) :

Hardware tessellation look promising and give an excellent way of have a nice vertex map to fit the best to be adapted to the height map and so give the best visual result (compared to Parallax mapping).