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"And I say it�s about goddamn time to force 95/98/ME users to upgrade"
Yay! lets hand Microsoft some more money! Wooo! I love you Bill. windows 95, in 2004?! Buying one new operating system per decade isnt too excessive.
Why should I have to buy a new operating system when my msdos 3.0 still works perfectly well?
if there was anything useful in each successive upgrade that was not available in the previous versions + addons then I wouldn't be pissed off with buying a new O/S. My computer still suffers from becoming shit about 2 months after a clean install whatever O/S I run.
I'm not criticising id for not supporting old operating systems, nor MS for releasing new ones. I was just saying "yay" to more money for something that isn't really that much better than the thing I've already got... just newer, flashier and requires a more powerful system to run. Oh, and apparently stops me upgrading my system in a hassle free manner (in the case of XP). In any case, I've got 2k at home and at work :) If you're still running win98, you're probably not on a computer that can handle doom3.
eod, lol, wwjd(fakb)? Hi all!
I almost finished my new Quake2 DM map. It doesn't have title yet, but the level itself is about 95% done. A little light polishing and then if the level is done, playtesting for itemplacement is required. Here are a few screenshots: http://zorius.dionussos.com/images/temp/msgboard01.jpg http://zorius.dionussos.com/images/temp/msgboard02.jpg http://zorius.dionussos.com/images/temp/msgboard03.jpg http://zorius.dionussos.com/images/temp/msgboard04.jpg http://zorius.dionussos.com/images/temp/msgboard05.jpg I hope I can release it soon! bye that level looks really, really bland. The all grey texturing doesn't really look that good, and the lighting doesn't help. I would add a lot more details and make them not grey becuase these images (which should be in screenshot forum i think) don't really excite me or make me want to play the map. But keep trying.
2K/XP is a lot more stable than 95/98. I was totally thrilled when i got 2K at home. However, there isn't much of a difference going 2K->XP, as far as i could tell. Just some snazzy eye candy that i turned off.
for guided missiles and orbital satellites it should be good enough for a video game. So the claims from a standpoint of advances in or necessary technology are suspect to me.
I have Windows 2000 on my laptop, but it did not come with the disk so I'm screwed,though the laptop worked fine with Max Payne 2 and FarCry I really need to upgrade the PC for that TOTAL experience. Ogier is the level editor used by Starbreeze and currently supports Enclave, Quake (improved support in this release) and Knights of the Temple (new for this release).
I haven't tried this version yet but making quake maps should be very straightforward. Announcement on ogier forum with some details: http://forum.starbreeze.com/viewtopic.php?t=27 Download page: http://www.starbreeze.com/sbz/EN_PlainPage.asp?id=2215 I would download Ogier and map for Enclave, but I think I'm going to be very busy very soon.
On the other hand, I don't have a PC that will play Doom 3, so maybe I'll use that to keep me preoccupied. Just letting people know I've been having problems with my computer lately, so if you don't see me around, it's currently not working.
Leave me an e-mail if it's urgent, I'll be checking it from time to time. on a cluster of computers totalling 36ghz.. if this means anything to anyone. I've no idea what RT is but:
http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/~sidapohl/egoshooter/ thanks for the link phait... i read about that in some pc mag recently but forgot to check the website. Interesting stuff, i cant see raytracing hardware being included in graphics cards any time soon, but i guess it's a possibility for the future. The video you can download is a bit unprofessional i thought, but maybe thats unimportant.
Ray tracing is simple enough. You shoot lines out from the camera as though you were tracing the path a photon would take backwards. The first place that line intersects something is where that photon would come from. If that surface is reflective or translucent it could also shoot out rays (at angles derived from physics) to figure out what it's own colour is.
It's a good brute force approach, and in it's simplest form is only a page of code. There are about a billion ways to augment and remix it though. Good way to get a masters. Thought at first this might be the 'trailer' you refer to but there's a difference.. though this is new:
http://www.3dgamers.com/news/more/1090599619/ I have only watched the last 3 vids to be released, the "official one" the one Phait linked and the other G4 one. Up until this time I haven't bothered, (bothered is the wrong word) haven't wanted to look at any vids or screen shots etc for DooM3, but it's so close now I thought I'd look at a couple. Only thing is my new ASUS V9999 GF6800 Ultra Deluxe may not get here in time. But I don't think we will see the game here in OZ for another 1 to 2 weeks. Definately not even going to try the game without it, I want to see and experience it all as good as possible.
but I have this speculation of being let down.. I don't know how to explain it, but I remember alot of older games being immersive and memorable, and some of the newer ones - as fun as they were, all the advances in graphics may have been a bit distracting or the attempts at pulling realism off failing in some spots, when years ago that wasn't always a priority - but the game as a whole.
I'm not going to buy Doom 3 just yet. It might run alright at lower resolutions on this 2ghz, 512mb ram, 256mb GeForce (this card isn't feature laden to my knowledge, only $126), but I'd rather holdout till I build my own PC. But that might not happen.. I hope DooM3 comes through, it's costing me $2000au on top of the price of the game, so I hope it does.
My present machine would probably run it ok, all be it lower. But I want the hole experience as good as possible. I'm only upgrading for DooM3, I don't intend on buying another game before Quake 4, and my current setup is more than enough for the games I play now, so if DooM3 is a flop I"m assuming you mean 'flop' as in in the game won't be that good. Because certainly flop as in 'won't make their money back' is irrelavant for id, no?
Also, game combat in the offical trailer looks slower than some of the other videos, not sure about that, maybe its just me. I remember there is/used to be a quake2 (i think) font that was a symbol font that had various strogg symbols and stuff like that- anyone have it and/or know where I might get it?
RQMDM4: Return to the Edge is my remake of the classic Q2DM1 by everyone's favorite, Tim from id Software.
More information, screenshots, and the download are available here: http://www.planetquake.com/rqm/maps/quake2/rqmdm4/details.htm (rejected news due to it not being a recent release and Requiem has a release from today he just posted as news.)
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