Technology?

(Flawe) #41

When you think about it, aren’t we all virtual?

(jRAD) #42

:stroggtapir:

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(mortis) #43

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What is real? How do you define real? Real is simply electrical impulses interpreted by your brain!

(Nail) #44

at least 6 of the beer I drank last night were real, the others I’m not sure

:stroggbanana:

(Mustang) #45

Here is an interesting presentation about how virtual textures work:
http://silverspaceship.com/src/svt/svt.avi

(ReDox) #46

Link doesn’t work.

(Nail) #47

works for me
you could try right click, save link as or w/e your browser does

(tokamak) #48

I think I understood about two percent of that.

(SebaSOFT) #49

it’s mostly like megatexture, it uses slices of textures to make bigger textures modifying them and coloring them with pixel shader programs and achieving a large texture from small ones.

(tokamak) #50

Yeah that’s it, it’s not really so much a visual effect as bumpmapping is, you’ll just see more detailed textures at a better performance.

(system) #51

I’ve to admit that id Tech 4 didn’t come to my mind at all when I first saw the screenshots. Compared to ETQW there are far more details, the textures look like they got a significant higher resolution as well as the models seem to have seriously increased polygon numbers and I could go on for a while with this.

So great job so far guys with the engine.

(ailmanki) #52

id3 lives since long
id4 will live long
id5 isn’t born yet… but its otw

(system) #53

Looking at the screenshots, I see that you guys use soft shadows… Great to see this as the id Tech 4 shadows may have been revolutionary at the release of Doom³, but nowadays these hard shadows look really dated.

So with all those changes made it looks like id Tech 4 got its 3rd major incarnation after the original release (D3, Q4) and the 2nd one with megatextures (ETQW).

(Paul) #54

id Tech 5 shows really good :slight_smile: Looking forward to the system specifications from Brink too! Looks fantastic - but possibly I can go out buy a new pc :stuck_out_tongue:

(ispellcorrectly) #55

thats what im doing :smiley: especially for brink!

(hamza123) #56

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