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Eh, what the hell, here is the official press release, replete with some media :)

A lien Arena version 7.53 is now released!

Some of the new general features for this release include:


Extended use of VBO for big performance increases
Signifigant improvements to bot AI
"Dm Lights" server ...

Not to spam this thread with tech demos (etc)... but what do you think of Humus's "Shadows that Rock" implementation for Shadow Mapping?

http://www.humus.name/index.php?page=3D&ID=28

Bad aliasing on the shadow edges.

These demos typically only use a single light source and a relatively low poly ...

One I think everyone forgot about - UT/Ut2k3-4/UT3 - The Redeemer Now THAT is a fun and satisfying weapon

Animating meshes in your vertex shader is the way to go. Combine that with static VBOs containing all of the xyz data (and better yet, if you have generic vertex attrib arrays you can use GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE for Quake formats; don't normalize but make sure that you pad them out to 4 bytes and set a w ...

We've already done that sky effect in Alien Arena. Not really that hard to do.

Dramatic exits are never a good thing.

Our press release:

A lien Arena version 7.52 is only a week away from release!

Some of the new general features for this release include:


Many new models and textures
Four exciting new levels
Vegetation shadowmapping
Account system for stats
Improved stats algorithms
Various improved ...

In practice though it doesn't really matter. For Quake there is more or less no difference between VBOs and client-side vertex arrays in terms of performance. You need to be hitting it with enough data to bring your driver to it's knees before you'll start seeing performance gains, and bandwidth to ...

still darkplaces does it quite well with the media at hand but quake was newer ment to run like that.

DP has md5 support(or at least comparable formats), and can run q3bsp maps(maybe others too?). So I don't think that DP is hampered by being limited to Q1 content, so a reasonably accurate ...

goldenboy wrote:I expect that Doom3 will beat Darkplaces when it comes to performance. But it's an unfair comparison.

Why is it an unfair comparison?

I'm not so sure Doom 3 runs faster than DP, or many other modern engines out there. In fact, I think it's probably the other way around.

Hello
I have the Half life tools for Worldcraft, but when I compile a map and load it, it uses the default Console characters. I am pretty new To This HLBSP. The HLBSP is a port of Bakers HLBSP[PorQuake psp] and doesn't use Wads.

I start up the map just fine, but it still has the Numbers. Is there ...

Problem now editing my booth

Tells me I cannot edit another users booth!

Is there an IRC channel this year where everyone is hanging out? If so, you should have it listed on the main Qexpo page.

daemonicky wrote:Doom did not use skeletal animation? I have seen these monsters doing some ragdoll so I assume it could have skeletal animation, but I dont know.

Doom III did have skeletal animation, Quake III did not.

daemonicky wrote: Quake 3 uses skeletal animation?

Quake 3 does not use skeletal animation.