Carmack Keynote

http://www.monstaquake.com/admins/r...2002_Speech.mp3

- Stressed the importance of 64/128-bit Color.

- Reiterated that Doom III was/is designed around GeForce1-level hardware. He did state that there would be some things added to take advantage of next-generation hardware

- The next iteration engine would be designed around a high-level shading language. He stated that, by and large, the various implementations (OpenGL/3DLabs, nVidia's CG) are identical.

- Stated that he has written backend for NV30.

- Similar to the high-level shading, Carmack is calling for a standardized Graphics API to prevent having to spend time in optimizing/specifying how to do certain things; rather, let the hardware driver figure out how to make the specific API call happen. He didn't mention specifics regarding CG, so I expect him to eventually throw his $.02 in the near future.

- He stated that the ball is now in the artist/level-designer's corner, as the core technology is virtually complete, minus optimizations, etc.

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