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Hey guys, I've been thinking for a while of doing some big art farty maps with large open spaces and detailed geometry. There's no gameplay involved, it's a purely visual thing and shader wise it would be really simple, all about simple aesthetics. One thing I've been wondering is, which BSP version...

Sharks. With lazerbeams

How about Q3 patch meshes with texture panning (using the non-tiling flag, which name is escaping me) + up/down vertex shader.

I like the aesthetic Jim, very oldschool. Reminds me of gritty 80's scifi.
Maybe it's kind of huge for a hudgun tho?

Bad bloom is a pet peeve of mine, though it's gotten a lot better over the last couple of years. Use multiple iterations like Spike said, it makes a huge difference visually. Blur during downsampling to avoid pixelation, reduces crawling pixels when moving around. Bluring with small kernel size duri...

I think D3 BFG added some optimizations found in this talk to reduce overdraw, at least I noticed some console variable...
http://www.terathon.com/gdc05_lengyel.pdf

goldenboy wrote:The best QC ladders are in RMQ.

They also seem broken sometimes in DP since I last tested.
But yeah, they work pretty well when they do.

while on the topic, might just drop this here

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutori ... ditor.html
mirror: http://www.astralax.ru/en/articles/inflames

Problem I have with alpha fading fire is the LDR color fade. Fading fire should not be a tint of gray, the white highlight should go to trough yellow to red. If the fade is fast enough it's usually not an issue. I always advocate using a grayscale sprite + a 2D color ramp shader where height represe...

I experimented with huge textures once, game didn't crash but the swapping in and out of textures into video memory caused noticeable hitches.

I'm sad right now, Quake 3 has some of my favorite character art ever.
RIP bro.

Something which I think would look cool on D3 would be self shadowing bumpmaps

You could consider using a different parallax mapping algorithm, POM is terribly slow.
Relaxed Cone Step Mapping, Anisotropic Cone Mapping and Quadtree Displacement Mapping converge much faster and don't suffer from the stairstepping effect.

I haven't tried Noesis yet, but I did try to split a mesh by hand. It might be kind of a worst case scenario for this -- a broken pillar with pieces of shrapnel. It's a total pain in the ass though, making corrections becomes a pain, not to mention it completely screws over the uv mapping procedure....

Okay, I've seen I should be able to export and run trough Noesis to .iqe/.iqm which listed edge-flag smoothing and smoothing groups as features. If that fails I might just split the mesh and see if works. I'm not really targeting any specific engine at the moment, but RMQ, DP and Cube2 are likely ca...