The Doom3 engine

Doom3 looks amazing, that's for sure, but still some people thinks it doesn't looks THAT AMAZING just because of its low polygon counts. They often make comparisons with Unreal tournament 2004 or Farcry. Have you thought what could happen if you put realtime shadows in a high polycount game like Unreal tournament 2004. Man, it will run like hell.
The guys at Epic are going to use bumpmapping and other tricks because they have realized that the next thing to put in a engine are the shadows, and the current hardware cannot affort a high level of poygon counts. (Still, I want to see the Doom3 engine games, let's say, three years in the future. Man they're gonna look gorgeus. Just compare the Quake III Arena graphics with Call of Duty, and you'll see what I mean)

The Doom3 engine is so flexible that some people are not only modding the weapons, but the rendering itself. That guy, Junkguy, made a very interesting modification: Parallax mapping. This technique can really make a game look gorgeous and its something Unreal engine 3 its going to have.

NOW TO THE POINT (I'm sorry, I had to say all that) : What kind of mod do you think could make the Doom3 engine make a big step forward?.

I say gimme SOFT SHADOWS and I'm in heaven. What do you think?

parrlex mapping does nothign but make the bump maps deeper, hes not changing any renders or anything.

First, this it's the first time I make a post, so sorry (because my topic was posted two times).

now, you must know what parallax mapping is. Bumpmapping its not perfect because its only afected by light, and not by the perspective. With parallax you can make those doors in Doom3 or those walls wich looked so flat look with more depth and perspective.

bumd mappin is affected by the perspective of the light...WOOOHAHAHAAAARRRRRRR

I mean YOUR perspective, not the lights'.

Sounds cool enuff, but why in gamershell wasn't it implemented by the devs then? :bucky!:

thats what bump mapping does, it gives it more depth, all parrelex does is give it some more depth, there are no new technologys, all the mod does is take the indents made by the bump maps and increase the amount they are inserted.

Now normal mapping is what is used to make the player models look good, the actual models are no better then Quake3's

Normal maps on



Normal maps off



They both use the exact same models and settings, normal mappings give the impression of more detail.

Mods do nothign but modify what the engine has.
No mod can "revolutionize" the engine

You like to post these screenies, don#t ya sepht

I think they carry a lot of points with them.

Originally posted by KamisoriX@Aug 17 2004, 08:11 PM
You like to post these screenies, don#t ya sepht

he sure does... :thumbup: