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
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          Games will inevitably hit a visual plateau as long as artists have so much time to dedicate to a single scene, and no automated agents or tools intervene in its design. The trend has been somewhat logarithmic for the last decade, things are always looking better but the days of graphical wow like jumping from flat shaded polys to texture mapping are over. Other aspects in the search for photorealism and inmersion will take front seat.
          
          This engine basically allows you to throw as much texture assets as you want to any set of geometry. The next id engine will, hopefully, based on Carmack's comments, also allow you to throw as much geometry as you wish to model. That's basically it. You are no longer constrained by anything but time, for hardware advances will more or less allow you to treat your Radiant like a 3dsmax, building as much shit as you want, as detailed as you want, without really having to worry about hitting a programatical limit. Sure, you can do something too intricate to run at 30fps in current hardware, but it's not going to crash or exit on account of a basic limit.

          Aug 13, 2009 5:41pm PDT
          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 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