ZylonBane on 15/12/2005 at 16:19

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Processing power aside, because dynamic lights/shadows look like crap. Precomputed lights can have soft edges and radiosity effects.

bukary on 15/12/2005 at 17:34

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I wouldn't be so sure...

Renzatic on 15/12/2005 at 20:25

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It doesn't matter if there's something bigger and better out, Odd. People are still going to make T1 & 2 fanmissions simply because they're the classic standard and are guarenteed to run well on everyone's computer.

Renzatic on 15/12/2005 at 20:57

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He's managed to get the maps to display with the lightmaps. It's a small step, but still a promising one nonetheless.

What really matters is if he's able to keep his attention on it from here on out. There's at least another year's worth of work to be done before any random FM will be playable in it.

Domarius on 15/12/2005 at 23:11

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@ZylonBane - Wow that's an impressive list, but they are arent' really difficult, just require a decent amount of man hours. Some of the ones you listed are trivial (eg. dynamic lights for example - the engine he uses will have a built in class for that, and physics - if the engine doesn't support it, there are stacks of free libraries available that will do the job more than sufficiently)
They don't have to be reproduced in exactly the same way as the DarkEngine did, which is what would be hard - as long as they produce pretty much the same results then pretty much every FM will work with it.

@oDDity - the main reasons I see for this project is
* to replay the existing HUGE amount of FMs and the OMs with much nicer graphics and realtime shadows.
* And - hopefully co-op play, on any mission you want. Even if DarkMod implements co-op, which you KNOW isn't in the near future, someone would have to re-create Calendras Legacy etc and all the other cool FMs in Doom 3 if I wanted to play them co-op with my brothers.
* Also the requirements for this openDarkEngine would be much lower than DarkMod.
Some or all of those reasons may not appeal to you, but they do appeal to me and I'm not alone. So there are the reasons. You dont' have to like them.

Comparing DarkMod to openDarkEngine is like comparing Doom 3 to Doomsday. Both have their place. You can't play the old Simpsons Doom WAD in Doom 3 on co-op, and certainly not have it run on very low spec computers either.