Re: Anyone heard anything about Trinity??

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From: Dohnut
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 00:00

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In article <79hmdk$s...@edrn.newsguy.com>, james_b...@yahoo.com wrote:

> I have been hoping to hear John Carmack talk about the project he laid
aside in
> order to do Quake 3 Arena...it was called Trinity, and it was supposedly
> Carmacks pet project and he was supposed to have big plans for it...
>  Anyone heard anything I havent??

Quake 3 basically is Trinity, scaled back a bit. It's got most of the
graphical and networking improvements he was thinking about (at least
those that are practical right now, such as curved surfaces and specular
highlighting, but things like bump mapping are just too demanding for
today's hardware). The main things not included yet are massive
scalability in terms of level size (to have huge outdoor areas) and
connecting servers together to have huge, limitless games. Also, I think
Trinity was supposed to include a regular single-player scenario, and of
course we're not getting that with Q3:A.

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Subject: Re: Anyone heard anything about Trinity??
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