What The D3 Engine Can Do...

[Springheel]

Take a look at these shots. Might be useful to have these on hand the next time someone says the D3 engine can only do dark corridors.

 

http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=10469

[Renzatic]

And this is still a work in progress too...scary cool stuff.

[oDDity]

IT's the guys who designed, built and textured the level plus the other guys who've work on water etc who've 'done it', not the Doom engine. Of course it's capable of a lot if you put a lot of hard work into it, the renderer is the best on the market.

[Springheel]

Well obviously I didn't mean the engine does the work. But there is a large contingent of people out there who don't think it's possible to create scenes like those with the D3 engine.

[Springheel]

A great looking cathedral using the D3 engine.

 

Cathedral

[Fingernail]

It looks quite good, but I miss some proper stained glass textures.

 

Also, it's not intended to be a playable map as it's far too high-poly. More like a walkthrough, but I doubt it could ever be playable with monsters on most people's machines.

 

So, as a level it obviously doesn't work too well. And as an architectural 3D visualisation of a cathedral - I've seen better.

 

Still, that shot does look quite atmospheric.

[Springheel]

This one is pretty old, but for the people who haven't seen it yet:

http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic...&highlight=tree

 

Also, it's not intended to be a playable map as it's far too high-poly. More like a walkthrough, but I doubt it could ever be playable with monsters on most people's machines.

 

Not right now, but in two years when we're done the mod, something like that could be very playable.

[Fingernail]

That's more impressive IMO - a nice looking map, and it ran quite well on my PC.

[Springheel]

He's given us permission to use the resources too, so I'm in the process of adding the rock and tree models to our collection.

[John D.]

Wow, that looks so good, absolutely tramples TDS!! I've got to get my new system together, I've just begun paying on a layway for a 160 gig Seagate harddrive. Hopefully when I get my hands on that I can hurry up and get a processer/OM and get my new system together so I can get back to learning Radiant!

[SneaksieDave]

That really is pretty goddamned amazing, both in how it looks and this guy's design prowess. A hell of a lot of detail in that map, professional (and beyond) quality, and it looks incredible. AND, it runs great too, somehow - from the perspective of a 1.4 GHz machine, even. And I love the cathedral as well.

 

This hints at really good possibilities for TDM maps.