doom 3 wanna be

Some maps i made to look like doom 3 using some editor.

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Doom 3 levels in Serious Sam?

serious sam 2

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This is pretty neat-looking - are you actually using Doom 3 textures, or are you using custom-made or SS2 base textures?

They're Doom 3 textures alright. They just look like they lack their normal and specular maps.

Haha...mostly this looks really good, but the shot of the outdoor area is kind of hilarious compared to the real Doom 3 stuff.

Danarchy said:

Haha...mostly this looks really good, but the shot of the outdoor area is kind of hilarious compared to the real Doom 3 stuff.

It's because that terrain on the screenshot is really shitty. Not only the topmap barely has any shadows, I can't see a rocky layer that would enhance the appearance. If done properly, it could come close to D3's terrain. Serious Engine is a pretty piece of code. They had real-time lightning (as in dynamic lightmaps) way before Doom 3.

It MIGHT have looked pretty good if the textures didn't look so much like garbage.

Nmn said:

They had real-time lightning (as in dynamic lightmaps) way before Doom 3.

I agree that the Serious Engine is awesome, and the new one is even prettier, but that's not true. SS1 had Bumpmapping and stencil shadows, sure, but it did not have a unified lighting renderer.

People always seem to miss the point of Doom3's engine. It's not that things cast stencil shadows. It's that EVERYTHING casts shadows from the same kind of light source.

OP: That stuff is pretty good apart from that some areas seem 'empty', kinda, and the textures/lighting let some areas like the outdoor shot down.

Nmn said:

They had real-time lightning (as in dynamic lightmaps) way before Doom 3.

IT'S NOT THE SAME THING

Serious Sam and Q3A had the "omg stencil shadows" as an option, but it's not close to doom3's per pixel lighting effects at all

If you look at this and say that it's unimpressive or ugly, then you're probably just one of those snobby graphics card whores who feels that anytihng that isn't top of the fucking line is some inferior piece of visual garbage; the same type of people who were praising the original Unreal Tournament when it first came out and then spitting on it when the next, more visually stunning version arrived (this is not a personal attack on anyone, but we all know gamers like that). For what the SS2 engine seems to be capable of doing, and compared to what one might expect from current PC gaming technology, I'd say it looks pretty damn good, except for the outside shot, the human characters and a few architectual pieces here and there lacking the proper shinyness.

Do this for Gzdoom or Edge (doesn't matter if you have to remove 3/5 of the details) and I'll love you forever.

gargoylol said:

IT'S NOT THE SAME THING

I'm not talking about variable lightmap size. Play SS1 map 02, inside of the temple, there are some headless morons running around. One is carrying a point light that makes a pillar cast shadows in various directions, real time.

GoatLord said:

If you look at this and say that it's unimpressive or ugly, then you're probably just one of those snobby graphics card whores who feels that anytihng that isn't top of the fucking line is some inferior piece of visual garbage; the same type of people who were praising the original Unreal Tournament when it first came out and then spitting on it when the next, more visually stunning version arrived (this is not a personal attack on anyone, but we all know gamers like that). For what the SS2 engine seems to be capable of doing, and compared to what one might expect from current PC gaming technology, I'd say it looks pretty damn good, except for the outside shot, the human characters and a few architectual pieces here and there lacking the proper shinyness.

Interesting.

You're right that some gamers are hypocritical in that they praise new games but later call them "crappy." However, game snobs like me are NOT like this. I actually call ALL new flashy-graphics tech-demo games crappy, because they are crap games after all. I'm unimpressed by this technology because it's yet another step forward in the wrong direction for games.

Textures are from Doom3,Quake3,serioussam2ssecondencounter,internet and others i made.In serious sam your allowed to set the shadow size to "sharp or blur".When set at sharp it looked pretty good but ran slow.When editing i set it high, added fake shadows "gradient" over the real shadows then set the wall to fullbright "wall does not recevie shadows from light source" it speed things up by 50%.The shadows look real but most of the levels are fullbright with gradient.The picture of the outside base is actually tiny to make it seem bigger and give it depth,you dont go outside.thanks for the feedback.

AndrewB said:

I actually call ALL new flashy-graphics tech-demo games crappy.

You call anything but Mario 3 ugly. My point? You're an idiot or something.

Well, he said crappy, not ugly.
For me, it's as always, a matter of gameplay.

Scuba Steve said:

You call anything but Mario 3 ugly. My point? You're an idiot or something.

True, I am something.

Es pretty, I like it.

Nmn said:

I'm not talking about variable lightmap size. Play SS1 map 02, inside of the temple, there are some headless morons running around. One is carrying a point light that makes a pillar cast shadows in various directions, real time.

AirRaid said:

SS1 had Bumpmapping and stencil shadows, sure, but it did not have a unified lighting renderer.

SHUT UP

AirRaid said:

SHUT UP

Hmm.. fuck you too

Great now "Can yooouuu feel the love tonight..." is going through my head.

seeing as he lives on the zdoom furums, i am not surprised

Nmn said:

Hmm.. fuck you too

Both of you shut up.

:(

GoatLord said:

If you look at this and say that it's unimpressive or ugly, then you're probably just one of those snobby graphics card whores who feels that anytihng that isn't top of the fucking line is some inferior piece of visual garbage

Right.
No. This is so far from the visual quality of Doom3. Good job on converting the architecture and such, but it doesn't exactly look good. The textures seriously miss their depth, and everything seems overbright.

AirRaid said:

:(

I'm sorry. : / I meant "please."

run cmd. bam, instant doom3.

gargoylol said:

run cmd. bam, instant doom3.

That's the best one I've heard yet.