doom3 gold!

jaja, die indizierung, da dürfen sie nicht bewerten, sonst wäre das "werbung für ein indiziertes spiel" de piefken hoit

wart auf die ersten mods , möglich sind auch aussenlevels mit der engine (eben angesprochen mit der aussenmission)

oh, weshalb bewerten sie dann nicht? die werden doch net zu blöd sein um sich zu einigen!?

Zitat von Vinci

ähh... doch

und die Wertung ist auch schon bekannt ?

alles unfug, wenn man ein bischen hirn einsetzt:

1. nur innenlevels -> siehe story, welchen sinn macht es auf der oberfläche vom mars herum zu streunen?
2. exzessive gewalt -> pflicht?!?!? wtf? zugegeben, vom szenario her wären ein paar fliegende gedärme und hirne oder was auch immer die sich vorstellen passend, aber gibt das spiel wirklich nur dann den vollen kick?
3. das mit dem PDA werd ich mir selbst anschauen, alles IQ-sache.
4. 20 stunden? wo ist das problem. nicht jeder ist noch schüler. viele haben oft nur 1-2 stunden zeit pro tag, am wochenende sicherlich mehr, aber wenn man mal aus der guten elternstube raus ist, gibts viel zu tun..
5. spielmodis, fanmaps und mods wo mehr als 4 spielen können werden sprießen wie pilze, wir befinden uns mitte 2004, die gaming-community ist riesig und hat viele talentierte leute.

3 war auch mehr ironisch gemeint. aber ich halte das mit dem PDA für kompletten schwachsinn. die hat wohl geistige umnachtung befallen, spiele von id software waren bisher immer deppensicher.

.plan update (Robert A. Duffy, D3 Programmer)
[quote]I've seen quite a few posts in the forums about "Ultra" quality and why we don't set this by default out of the box. I thought I would clarify a few of the reasons and also take the time to mention some of the hardware and software we found incredibly useful during the development of DOOM 3.

To put things in perspective, most production levels in DOOM 3 contain more media assets than all of Quake 3: Arena. When we started working on the memory foot print, our goal was a 256MB system. In most cases loading up an area of the game on a 256MB system works fine, the problems arise when you start to transition from one area to the next (successive map loads). Memory fragmentation starts to really work against us and it ultimately made it just not feasible for a reasonable play experience to support 256MB.

Two basic options make up the quality levels, sound diversity and image fidelity.

Sound diversity is effectively how many sounds we support per sound shader for a given "sound". There may be for instance, 7 different "bullet striking the wall" sounds for a given bullet. In low quality, we only use one sound for this vs randomly choosing between one of the seven available. When we started on memory optimization, most levels used between 80 and 100 megabytes of sound data. We made the choice to move to .OGG for quite a few sounds which effectively removed the problem for us.

Image fidelity is dependent on what quality level we load the textures at.

In Ultra quality, we load each texture; diffuse, specular, normal map at full resolution with no compression. In a typical DOOM 3 level, this can hover around a whopping 500MB of texture data. This will run on current hardware but obviously we cannot fit 500MB of texture data onto a 256MB card and the amount of texture data referenced in a give scene per frame ( 60 times a second ) can easily be 50MB+. This can cause some choppiness as a lot of memory bandwidth is being consumed. It does however look fantastic :-) and it is certainly playable on high end systems but due to the hitching that can occur we chose to require a 512MB Video card before setting this automatically.

High quality uses compression ( DXT1,3,5 ) for specular and diffuse and no compression for normal maps. This looks very very close to Ultra quality but the compression does cause some loss. This is the quality that for instance the PC Gamer review was played in.

Medium quality uses compression for specular, diffuse, and normal maps. This still looks really really good but compressing the normal maps can produce a few artifacts especially on hard angled or round edges. This level gets us comfortably onto 128MB video cards.

Low quality does everything medium quality does but it also downsizes textures over 512x512 and we downsize specular maps to 64x64 in this mode as well. This fits us onto a 64MB video card.

One thing of note on the normal map compression is that generally speaking if you DXT a normal map you get really crappy results. NVIDIA hardware supports palettized compression which yields good compression and normal maps retain hard and round edges really well. Unfortunately this compression does a poor job in other cases and you end up getting splotchy areas. ATI does not support the palettized compression so we needed a better solution. ATI had done some research on various methods of normal map compression and we ended swapping the red and alpha ( which is zero in the case of a normal map ) channels. This effectively allows the compression to do a much better job and is just one extra instruction in the fragment program to move the alpha channel into the red channel. The bottom line on what happens on each card is as follows. [...][/quote]
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