Quick questions for the Quake wars team

(thepiman) #1

some of the textures in the screen shots look low quality and some of them look ok and other just suck why is that.

here are the reasons i could think of if you want to give feedback that would be great. also i am still going to get the game i just want to know what is up with the textures

if you can’t comment directly then just tell me if my reasons are correct.

  1. There is a good chance that the game will have better textures then shown in the screens because applying HI-quality textures slows down the rendering and makes no difference to the play testers. why would you apply high textures in a beta/alpha build? it just would slow down the bug hunting and wast time.

  2. it is a multiplayer game so it might have lower textures to prevent lag.

  3. Call of duty 2/3 use the quake 3 engine (with an improved rendering system) so i don’t see why they would not have improved the Doom 3 rendering system, they have added so many features from Mega-textures to open Al sound.

  4. they have said that the map textures are Gigabytes in size and have been compressed to 8 megs to save space that could be the real reason. they don’t want to install 10 gig of crap on your drive like some games do.

(Joe999) #2

did u see the nvidia vid? there’s nothing to complain about. besides i wouldn’t judge from screenshots. all that matters is how it looks & feels like when you play it

(Dima) #3

I really hope that the low quality textures are for play testing only.
Because id’s game just cant look bad.

(thepiman) #4

I have seen the Nvidia video what is why i think that there is hope for HQ textures.

(Joe999) #5

what is HQ textures good for if gameplay is crap? have you seen the latest crysis gameplay? eyecandy everywhere, but the gameplay totally sucks imo. and i don’t see what’s wrong with that nvidia vid.

even this low quality vid looks all in all seen better than any video i’ve seen from crysis:

http://www.gamekult.com/video/7491501/

(kamikazee) #6

I choose option 4, because all those pictures you can see on gamesites are JPEG compressed. The game itself will likely use TGA and DDS images.

I wouldn’t care too much about the quality though. It will be OK, and when I’m playing I’m rather improving my aim instead of looking around to marvel at all the nice textures. :wink:

(Bongoboy) #7

There have been a few unfortunate screenshots and videos where the textures have looked fugly. Honestly, they won’t.

(Nuclear Mr.Rogers) #8

Just the fact that the game uses the Doom3 engine should get rid of any worries about the textures looking bad.

(thepiman) #9

what is HQ textures good for if gameplay is crap? have you seen the latest crysis gameplay? eyecandy everywhere, but the gameplay totally sucks imo. and i don’t see what’s wrong with that nvidia vid.

even this low quality vid looks all in all seen better than any video i’ve seen from crysis:

have you played crysis? knowing nothing about crysis i am am willing to give it a good try after playing farcry. but your right when it came out farcry had load of eye-candy and after we all upgraded our computer it played really nice so lets see a like to the video you are talking about

Edit: i just watched a Crysis video from ces and it looked like crap.

  1. the ‘sun’ washed everything out so i am willing to say the the lighting is bad.

  2. why does the hero have super strength. it you can throw everything on the map, including the Bots what incentive do you have to conserve ammo

  3. i take back the quote … you were right.

(ayatollah) #10

http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=5dbf2571-b5e8-4615-a117-673b3e8aa607

Not the best size but shows the quality.

(amazinglarry) #11

lol I love how the poll question is “what do you think is the best reason.”

That’s a pretty general question :evil:

And the answer is… 42.

(thepiman) #12

well the only people that know the answer to the question are bums and will not tell us… give us a new screen…

how hard is it to " whops… i have no idea how the QW screen got there but …i am in trouble"

Also by asking “what do you think” i leave the door open allowing for more posting.

(AKA Sneaky) #13

Here is much bigger video of the 8800 demo:

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/748/748377/vid_1740174.html

(Joe999) #14

i think that if you want a new screen you should ask in a different way, and the other thing i think is that i still don’t see your point. the game looks awesome imo. besides the game is still in development and to quote myself: “i wouldn’t judge from screenshots. all that matters is how it looks & feels like when you play it”. quake wars isn’t a slideshow, it’s full of action. you won’t have time to stand around and enjoy the eye candy :smiley:

(thepiman) #15

i agree with you 100%