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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.) seems it's not a old release like I thought.. just a re-release... any case, I added that rejected news into Requiem's posted news.
BuzzKill
Jesters Site http://www.planetquake.com/j-spot/ Screenies http://www.planetquake.com/j-spot/jbuzz.html Yes, Flop as in wont be that good, not as in wont make their money back. But I'm all most willing to bet that it will be excellent.
The thing that bothers me is the pace, and player speed. Some that already have the game have said that the pace is very slow, but we all pretty well knew that was going to be the case. If the player speed is anything like Unreal2, I don't think I could do it, unless the rest is good enough to overcome that. Only time will tell In Unreal 2, you mean being interrupted with a cutscene or some static moment almost every minute? That's my experience in the demo, from what I remember.
I mean the speed at which the player walked/ran, it was painfully slow. They released a "fix" for it in the patch, that allowed you to increase walking speed, but you had to type it in the console everytime you started the game, not a big deal I know, but Unreal 2 just wasn't even worth that little extra effort I'm afraid. I'm feeling ill just thinking about it :)
That's my experience in the demo
lol I bought the retail product, and I thought that was the demo, it was over so fast. Come to think of it, the games shortness was a blessing. Can we make post #4927 news please? A new version of a level editor that supports Quake is certainly a lot more appropriate than clean source from Tomaz...
:D More on that wierdness with FitzQuake: It goes away if a
I'll have to try reinstalling and see what happens. No
Which makes me suspect something's broken somewhere else. I have upgraded to DirectX 9.0b after all. Another bit of evidence for same is in E1M2 - things look all right until I get that super shotgun, and pow! rings of wild colour. And always the same pattern every time. Damn it, I got coding Arcane and forgot. I'd better clean up my Quake dir and see what happens. I don't think FitzQuake (or any other Q1 engine) uses DirectX for any rendering. They all use the OpenGL API. I also have FQ 0.75 suddenly painting strange coloured spots on the walls in some maps (nothing psychedelic though).
Fatty: I didn't get before whether the issue is completely FQ isolated or other Q1 engines also expose the same behaviour? Any difference window/fullscreen or bitdepth -bpp 16/32? Any complaints in the console at startup regarding video?
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