Chaser Engine Video

so what does this have that the Quake3 engine didn't have 2 years ago?

I think the Carmack has finally got a little competition:

I mean damn, Unreal 2, Kreed, and now this. id may actually be given a run for their money...

Probably not, but you never know...

this vid is pretty cool.

I'm putting it on a server for a few hours since the main download site is slow as hell.

http://207.21.201.184/CloakNT_td.zip

it will be up there until about 7pm EST.

cheers!

has anybody been able to figure out an ETA on a demo or a full release from this company or any other info ?

an interesting bit i read here:http://www.tolstiy.ag.ru/what/chaser.htm

Tolstiy: May be it's too early to ask about how detailed the world of Chaser will be - we may need some statistics here - number of polygons in one frame, quantity of primitives in models, how complicated (from the standpoint of geometry) the levels will be etc. Can you tell us something about this?

David Durcak: This will depend on power of computer and options set by player. Characters will have around 6000 polygons. There will be around 40.000 polygons per frame on an average computer, but as I said on a slow computers this will be less while on high-end computers there will be much more polygons. Because of our portal technology we can have really huge levels but we intentionally split them into smaller ones to optimize loading times and to have more various environments (because of texture memory limits of 3D cards).

anybody know how these numbers stack up againt the current shooters ?

this looks alright. Portals-based engines generally look pretty nice, especially when they have as many features as this one seems to.

I really wish that Double Aught had finished Duality... that was going to be one badass game.

Notable things missing:
- LOD on terrain. Can it do large outdoor terrains with trees, bushes, etc?
- LOD on characters?
- Object casing shadow on itself?
- Soft shadows?

A lot of features seem to be taken out of the Doom 3 engine, which is pretty impressive. Like the dynamic lighting, and the cool bump mapping and stuff.

The big test will be whether they can get good artists to really make this look good. Some games have great engines but if a great artist doesn't take advantage of it, it's all for nothing.

Oh yes and I hope the physics and player movement in the games will be tweaked ok, and not feel "weird" like in some games.

Shack culture:

When presented with a graphically superior game on the XBox:
"XBox sucks .. graphics aren't everything"

When presented with a graphically superior game on the PC:
"WOW! fapfapfap These graphics ROOL! Gameoftheyear'd!"

*sigh*

Damn I just got done watching it and it's fucking cool as hell... I wasn't seriously impressed until I saw the bump mapping, dynamic shadows and especially the player models/skins. Talk about detail.. good lord.

just saw the demo (thanks to omer) and it's worth watching. I'd like to get some numbers on framerates...not from sgi machines.

Doesn't this engine remind you of when we first saw Prey in action?

True water surfaces, reflective bumps, Higher poly counts,..........

this engine will change our lives. Cities will be built around it. You don't need to convince people to get this....it will just happen.

its worth the download. very nice.
wouldnt mind seeing a realtime demo

343bytes/s is crap. fuck this

ooooh 4kps.. ahh the memories. only 434 hours remaining!

it feels like i'm downloading UO phase 1 beta again.

mooooooooooooo