New Rage Trailer Debuts at QuakeCon

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  WTF wear you expecting it to be?? More than half the shit that comes out nowadays is nothing new He... : MOB712
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    because idtech 2 to 3, 3 to 4 etc were much bigger jumps in technology? so yes i was expecting a similar ... : boobie
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      I don't think you quite understand what virtual texture management entails for the future of gaming. It's... : ZaldronGG
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        uh. i understand exactly what it is and what it means, but im looking at the outcome of that technology r... : boobie
        • What other game looks as good as Rage and runs at 60fps on the 360? The engine could do more detail if th... : gabrobot
        • Games will inevitably hit a visual plateau as long as artists have so much time to dedicate to a single s... : ZaldronGG
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        There is a restriction, the total amount of memory you have available at the time. The technology can ta... : ease one
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          It doesn't bear that much of an impact. Think about it this way: if this engine was perfect in its capability to stream from disk ONLY what's needed from the textures, and the original texture size is always beyond that of what you need for perspective mapping so that no values need be interpolated by filtering, it would only require as many texels as pixels you have in your framebuffer (your screen resolution, which doesn't really amount to more than 9 megs of ram at 1900x1600).
          
          Of course this engine is probably several times less efficient, and it's not like it must waste CPU time figuring out the required assets to such degree. There's also a lot more granularity, with power of two texture size fetching that will most likely result in unneeded data a lot of the time, but surely you can agree even if this engine is 100 times less efficient than perfect the requirements are not absurd for the "most unique texturing you can get at this resolution", and that's with current hardware. Think of the future, how much RAM we will have to fuck with and no longer be proportionally consumed by the ever-increasing visual fidelity.

          Aug 13, 2009 5:34pm PDT
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          It doesn't bear that much of an impact. Think about it this way: if this engine was perfect in its capabi... : ZaldronGG
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            PS: of course the "perfect streaming system" would generate a texture buffer too complex to draw quickly,... : ZaldronGG
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              PPS: pixel shaders are key to this development not because we're all used to fancy normal mapped material... : ZaldronGG
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                errata: in the "megatexture", not the "metada". : ZaldronGG
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                  http://s09.idav.ucdavis.edu/talks/05-JP_id_Tech_5_Challenges.pdf page 15 virtual texturing thrashing ... : ease one
                  • When their 1024 pages fill up, or is close enough to the limit the megatexture object starts loading sub ... : ZaldronGG
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      bigger jumps in indoor technology? the car chase looked a lot better and fluid to me than anything ive s... : logan
      • are you serious? : mc-fine
    • The only really drastic jump was from 3 to 4, and that was largely a result of the improvements in hardwa... : FlatlineDixay
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  I agree. It might be fun, but the animations looks very canned and meh compared to some earlier videos. Y... : BauriceMastard
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    "it might be fun, but"...? am i the last guy on earth that plays games primarily for fun? : radio_babylon
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      Apparently the only reason to play a game is to complain about the graphics. : beanman101283
      • Well, actually, he's complaining about this video, which isn't a very accurate representation of the fina... : Jobos
• Current system can barely handle the current high end games and sales numbers show that pc sales are plum... : tlover2
• I love the comments sometimes here, people have their heads so far up their ass's. The ONLY thing we nee... : Batmanshack
• So now, essentially, ID has become a victim of it's own success? ... good fight. : killscientology
• Fix your damn eye's. : Mad BH