SneaksieDave on 27/11/2004 at 20:53
Quite interested in the project indeed. Regarding being on the team, I sent you a PM.
Fingernail on 28/11/2004 at 10:31
Hopefully spar will pass that PM to me....
Domarius on 29/11/2004 at 06:52
Quote Posted by SneaksieDave
..."Haze" or heat wave (and water) effects apparently need a directx9 ready card. ...I have a GF4Ti4600. So far, I haven't seen anything the card can't do, albeit slower than the next gen cards. Is this perhaps "the thing it cannot do?"
Yep.
I have a GeForce 5900, and I get all those cool effects, and my brother with his GeForce4 can't. And apparently the dynamic lighting is heaps better too.
The "heatwave effect" is also used on all glass windows in the game, to give a "wobbly" effect that you see when you look through glass because it isn't perfect. As you move, it really looks like the glass is distorting your vision. Someone on the Dark Mod tweaked this effect for those fancy mottled stained glass windows you see in Victorian themed things.
SneaksieDave on 29/11/2004 at 14:55
!! See now that's the weird thing. I see the window distortion.
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Fingernail on 29/11/2004 at 15:25
Can you send your PM to me instead, sparhawk never mentioned it yet.
Hemebond on 29/11/2004 at 20:20
Quote Posted by SneaksieDave
"Haze" or heat wave (and water) effects apparently need a directx9 ready card.
Doom 3 uses OpenGL for all rendering.
jay pettitt on 30/11/2004 at 00:19
Quote Posted by SneaksieDave
Edit: Also, a question for those who might know (coincidentally, most likely the people in this thread ;)) - "Haze" or heat wave (and water) effects apparently need a directx9 ready card. I've heard (or at least I think I've heard) that previous generation ATI cards have been made DX9 ready and capable with a driver revision.. does anything exist for previous gen nvidia? I have a GF4Ti4600. So far, I haven't seen anything the card can't do, albeit slower than the next gen cards. Is this perhaps "the thing it cannot do?"
Doom makes some funky choices about what it should and shouldn't render based on the performance and specs of your hardware. The traditional setup where you get to pick individual video settings from an option screen has been done away with in favour of a simplified 'intelligent' system. You might be able to turn some of those render effects back on by tweaking a .cfg file or entering commands at the console.
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http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Doom3/FPSVisuals.htm) clicky
SneaksieDave on 30/11/2004 at 00:55
Quote Posted by Fingernail
Can you send your PM to me instead, sparhawk never mentioned it yet.
Sent you an email earlier. It's a yahoo address, so it might go into a bulk folder...
Quote Posted by Hemebond
Doom 3 uses OpenGL for all rendering.
I'm just going by what I read:
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http://www.gen-x-pc.com/doom3_FAQ.htm)
Quote Posted by jay pettitt
You might be able to turn some of those render effects back on by tweaking a .cfg file or entering commands at the console.
Coolness, thanks, I will check that out.
Fingernail on 8/12/2004 at 15:13
Website Update (minor)....actually a few days ago, sorry bout that.
Macsen on 8/12/2004 at 18:09
That new Builder Guard looks rather camp in his knee high boots, pink skirt and 'defiant feminist' pose. Also that armour is a bit too 'high fantasy'. Things need to look as real as possible, as the Thief universe depends on that felling of reality for its gritty, mud under your nails atmosphere. However, the general quality of the work so far looks of an astoundingly high level. :D
