Dima Posted December 19, 2001 Get it here: http://filefront.gnutelliums.com/demos/CloakNT_td.zip Pretty cool stuff: bumpmapping, real time shadows, pixel/vertex shaders, etc... Highly recommended! 0 Share this post Link to post
Lord FlatHead Posted December 19, 2001 Well that looks pretty cool. So do the screenshots at the CloakNT Homepage. Although it probably has like 10 times less triangles than a typical Doom 3 scene, and (like Kreed) the art isn't as good as it could be. Coolest thing seems to be the wavy water surfaces... Let's hope id can pull off something like it. Bumpmaps rock - especially the shiny bumpy statues. Sweet. The only thing that looks ass would be the hard-edged jaggy shadows. Seems like Carmack's still leading the pack but a couple guys are catching up fast... 0 Share this post Link to post
Zaldron Posted December 19, 2001 That water's probably the easiest thing you can do with a GF3... 0 Share this post Link to post
Dima Posted December 19, 2001 Guys, you've got to admit, the characters look pretty cool! I am not talking DOOM quality here, but they are on par with Unreal II (especially the close-up scene with the guard). Other stuff worth noting: As FlatHead already said, the wavy water surfaces look cool (even if it's one of the easiest things to do with the GeForce III). The bumpmapped statues look really cool as do the scenes where bumpmapping is shown seperately (Zaldron - remember that image you sent me? same here, only in motion). They shouldn't have included the hard-edges jaggy shadows in the movie as it ruined the impressions from the engine (DOOM has spoiled me I suppose). Overall, quiet impressive, but not DOOM. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zaldron Posted December 19, 2001 Oh well if you have a GF3 is obvious that you can code something that looks like DooM 3. The engine's real power is the stability, the optimization (something we cannot really appreciate from movies), the modularity, the ease to modify and the degree of freedom it gives to the player and developers. If no engine using pixel shaders so heavily matches the the polycounts on DooM 3, that means The Carmack's using some of his math superpowers and pure genius to find more effective and faster algorythms. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted December 19, 2001 algorythms carmack's code - like music of cosmos! 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted December 20, 2001 Download finished. Hmm. That's definitely impressive, but nothing compared to what I expect of DOOM3. 0 Share this post Link to post
