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Asher
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Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999
time: 22:34
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Originally posted by Solver
You talking about this?
code:
// "mtr_light_shader" ""
// "light_color" "0 0 0.8"
// "light_radius" "160"
// "light_offset" "-8 0 0"
// "mtr_explode_light_shader" "muzzleflash"
// "explode_light_color" "0 0 1"
// "explode_light_radius" "160"
// "explode_light_fadetime" "0.25"
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Yeah. If you remove all of the comment lines (the "//" part), it should enable lights.
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Why would that be? If a light of, say, fireball, illuminates area in radius of 50 pixels, would it not need to recalculate ~7800 pixels only? |
Because of how the engines are set up, "shiny" objects set up to reflect parts of light. Like if the walls are metal-ish, a fireball will reflect on that somehow, even if the fireball is only 50 pixels large in radius.
There are ways to "block" it out so its only re-rendering certain parts...but the problem there is that videocards work by rendering "passes". It needs to determine which pixels on the screen it needs to block out anyway, which doesn't make too much difference. "Blocking out" means it basically puts an invisible boundary around objects to stop them from reflecting.
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the original dooms didn't really have water. all it was was basically regular floors/walls with different textures that were animated iirc. i imagine doom3's lighting and water might not work out too well.
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Maquiladora
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It looks a lot better with vsync on, I dunno why it's off by default. |
Because its a whole lot faster. I personally never noticed this tearing in any games ive played, and i have vsync off by default in my graphics cards options. It used to give me +5 to 10fps with half-life, back when i had a 32mb graphics card.
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Guynemer
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Originally posted by Apocalypse
Also, did you find the easter egg in the first mirror? |
I must have missed this. Is this in the mirror in the bathroom near the kitchen, on your way to Marine HQ at the very beginning of the game (ie, before hell literally breaks loose)?
Right now, I've only just gotten my way back to the main building, haven't gotten back to HQ yet. If I remember correctly, I just met some guy hiding out above a ladder, the only survivor I've seen so far...
The imps are freaking my ass out.
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Guynemer
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Okay. I just don't think I've made it that far back yet, unless I'm very much mistaken.
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Solver
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Apolyton Duke Of Something
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Latvia, Riga
Sep 2000
time: 07:34
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To trigger the scene in bathroom, you have to equip your flashlight and come real close to the mirror.
Apparently, video card is most important for this game, followed by RAM, followed by CPU. Like I said, CPU being the bottleneck of my system, I still run High fairly well after some optimization.
I also play original Doom... in fact, Doom2 is my most played FPS game, and what I liked best till Doom3. It's nice to know that I will also be playing Doom3 in 3 years when I am equipped with a 6GHz machine, 2 GB RAM and a GeForce 8400 with 512 VRAM. Will make the system requirements seem a joke.
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