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Overwhelming Power of Doom3!

retroborg - Mar 27, 2004

		retroborg	Mar 27, 2004
		Doom3 will have the best graphics in gaming history. No modern graphics GPU will be able to handle it at 60FPS! Not even the All mighty GF FX5950 Ultra & ATI Radeon 9800 XT! :thumbs-up: Time to throw away your old PCs! The apocalypse is coming!!!! And if you Infidels donât upgrade, then you will burn in the fiery pits of hell!!! :thumbs-up: :devil :devil

		it290	Mar 27, 2004
		It looks sweet, but I hope they add some outdoor environments to the game. I don't see it happening with full effects on the engine though. Maybe they could do it like Far Cry and have full bumpmapping and shadows indoors, with regular more regular type textures outdoors. That's sort of what it looks like during the intro scene in the alpha when it pans past the Martian city anyway.

		retroborg	Mar 27, 2004
		What? Aren't there any out door scenes in Doom3? The whole game takes place in dark corridors in the Deimos station?

		gameboy900	Mar 27, 2004
		Looks like it from all the screenshots I've seen. They're really trying to (over)use the whole hide in shadows thing, with lots of creatures jumping out at you from them.

		retroborg	Mar 27, 2004
		This guy looks nasty. http://media.pc.ign.com/media/014/014934/img_18182... What's the equivalent in Doom 1 & 2?

		it290	Mar 27, 2004
		Hmm.. the only thing I can think of would be the flaming flying skulls.

		Akomander	Mar 27, 2004
		Isn´t that the skeleton who resurrects enemies and fire missiles at you in Doom 2?

		retroborg	Mar 28, 2004
		It's the Revenant. He shoots missiles at you but doesn't bring back the dead. That's the Arch Vile.

		Des-ROW	Mar 28, 2004
		It does look very very good in terms of texture and lightning, but the geometry is so basic.

		Juuli	Apr 18, 2004
		Originally posted by Des-ROW@Mar 28, 2004 @ 01:13 PM It does look very very good in terms of texture and lightning, but the geometry is so basic. As far as i can recall, carmack's plan was to use less detailed geometry when designing models and simply using advanced techniques during play to give the creatures theyre detailed appearances, light meshes, etc etc over the simply model.

		it290	Apr 18, 2004
		Quite true; the polycount has to be kept fairly low because there are so many rendering passes involved. Although I believe some of the models are using normal maps, which makes the geometry look like it has a higher polycount than it really does. I can assure you that although the environments seem to be all indoor, they are generally much more detailed than that screenshot shows.