Carmack on DOOM @ E3
Posted by Steven Parker on 30 May 2002 - 11:12 · 8 comments & 801 views
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#1 Posted by King Mustard on 30 May 2002 - 11:24
- http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/doom3/DOOM+3/1/thumbs/fatty.jpg You can tell they're only at medium quality. The textures are REALLY blurred!
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#1.1 Posted by baphomet_irl on 30 May 2002 - 11:57
- yeh - the thing is thou that most of the models' appearances are actually created by bump maps (which i think are then turned into displacement by the engine)
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#2 Posted by Ishmael on 30 May 2002 - 17:48
- What are you talking about washed out extures. That is a jpeg image, compressed from the original targa output. Jpeg makes things fuzzy, that is how it works. Regardless, I still would say you are crazy if we were looking at the actual screendump. What game in the world has textures that look as detailed as that jpeg. the bummapping on that fat guy's face is unbelievably realistic. The clothes, eyes, everything is unbelievably nice. I cannot think of a single game announced or on the market that I have seen detail hold up in like this one. The additionaly fact this was on medium just blows me away. Ishmael
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#3 Posted by T0Y S0LDIER on 31 May 2002 - 05:25
- As much as i wanna play Doom 3 at this very point in time, im happy it doesnt come out for a while yet, gives me time to do some major upgrading so i can actualy play it when it does hit the shelves. TS
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#4 Posted by
timdorr on 31 May 2002 - 05:46
- ok, that piece of news is just SCARY.... i'm gonna go chop up my TNT2 card now... cyas...
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#5 Posted by lx qu33n on 31 May 2002 - 05:52
- well i just bought a gf4 ti4400, i think i might even be in the sand for this game. =,
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#5.1 Posted by nic on 31 May 2002 - 20:28
- i have this rule:
only buy hardware that you can't live without. If there are no games that support the new hardware, don't buy the hardware. Everyone and their mom was telling me I should go with the MUCH more expensive GeForce4 Ti over the GeForce4 MX. And I knew how much lower end it was.
But when it came down to it:
it will play all the game that I want to play better then my crapy GeForce2. And there were no games out in the market that I wanted that required the extra hardware.
If you wait until those titles appear in the market, like Doom3. Then you should buy the hardware that supports it. I'm sure the Geforce 4 Ti will work fine with Doom 3. But my point is when I buy it (or something better) then it will be a lot cheaper (or a lot better).
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#6 Posted by Osiris on 01 Jun 2002 - 23:48
- lol damn, well all be needing some serious GeFOrce4 action for this.
We actually screwed up at E3 -- we should have been running it at high quality settings (uncompressed textures, anisotropic filtering), but we were chasing some problems the first day, and it got set back to medium quality. The problems had gone away, so we left it that way, rather than risk changing it back.
Yup, DOOM was only running at medium quality, it gets even purtier. In addition, Wired has an audio interview with Carmack and Trent Reznor.The next-gen ATI stuff was being compared to a juiced up GF4 card (Probably what would be called a GeForce4-Ultra) by Carmack. Calling that NVidia's next-gen stuff was a bit of a misnomer. Oops?
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