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Article #86348Re: Doom 3 has "ADVANCED" lighting???
From: francium
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:30
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:30
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What you (the original poster) are requesting is a feature called radiosity... something which is currently only available in pre-rendered movies. Your display card and CPU are way too slow for that. Even if id has included it, are you willing to play Doom 3 in 0.001 fps with a GF6800 Ultra@SLI? http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/rtradiosity/ -- You know, if C:\> was an emoticon, it could be seen as an arab with a turban and beard. "francium" <francium_at_softhome@dot.net> wrote in message news:cfc3mm$g78$1@news.hgc.com.hk... > The current gaming hardware and API can't do that, period. > > You can't blame id for that > > -- > You know, if C:\> was an emoticon, it could be seen as an arab with a > turban and beard. > > "BitchingHamster" <BitchingHamster@zeroping.com> wrote in message > news:Xns953DA2070CA4BBlueHampster@204.127.199.17... > > > > Where is the 'Turn on the real goddamn lighting physics' option so I can > > see where the fuck I am? In my universe, light bounces and scatters off > > surfaces, so that three inches behind a light source isn't TOTALLY FUCKING > > PITCH BLACK. Why did the lame ass developers at ID copy the lame ass > > lighting from Splinter Cell? At least Splinter Cell has unique gameplay, > > but in the real world LIGHT DOESN'T WORK THIS WAY. Don't believe me? Why > > don't you and one of your geek friends, if you have a friend, go into a > > warehouse at night with some of the lights on, stand in the light and have > > one of your friends stand 10 or 20 feet away in the shadows. If you are > > living in my universe and aren't Stevie Wonder you will not fail to see > > him. Then do me a favor and send a fucking photo of this to the id geeks > > so they can fix their goddamn game. (and yes I'm pissed that I payed 50 > > bucks for this crap) > >
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