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Used Avast before, today, I use windows defender add no need for another anti-virus.

IMO this would be more a "marketing" tool than anything, would be cool to see lets play youtubers play TDM and scare the crap ot them selves because they talked at a inconvenient time.

I see this used more for youtube lets plays' thou.

geegee, IMO (even thou I sometimes fail at that) the best way to not reach this stage, is to ignore threads that touch subjects where you have a strong opinion on, is a sure way for you to find people that totally disagree with you or to read posts from others that you may find very offensive, my advice stick to the threads about the game that are mostly on topic. Personally I've add very few instances were I've add to totally ignore someone in a forum and on this forum even less, imo is the most mature mod community I ever seen.

That is how my own simple LOD system works, it does a origin to origin float distance number and I have yet to see any major problem with it, but I will not claim that I have tested it that much, specially in a complex scene with hundreds of LOD entities. I do make sure to do the check, only when the player is within the same area has the LOD object and the player is moving, no need to do it, if the player is stationary or the distance value didn't changed that much between frames. I also do the check in a larger interval, if the entity itself is totally hidden. Btw would love to do the LOD, based on size of object in pixel/screen space, (size of object on screen) like Unreal Engine does but currently I don't know how to do that, if someone has a hint...

You are certainly right, but I was not saying that assert substitutes code for runtime user error handling, it can be used for such a thing (in debug builds) but I use it mostly to catch my own errors, for frontend user errors I use mostly goto; I know goto is hill advised and disliked by many programmers but I use it and I've yet to see any problem with it, but in no way am I saying is the best way to program. b32 somefunc(void) { if(this check fails) goto Error; .... Error: { print("Error message!") return 0; } } I know is not always the best option but it works and idtech 4 besides exceptions also seems to use goto for error handling, personally, I've yet to find the need to use exceptions.

I'm not a programmer of the caliber of any of you, being coding in c++ on and off for 3 years only but I've heard from expert programmers that I have total confidence (Jonathan Blow and Casey Muratori) that exceptions are bad and they do more harm than they help, John Carmack does seem to use them, as anyone can see by looking at the idtech 4 code but is also apparently used very sparingly, like you advise. But your find reinforces the advice from Jonathan and Casey, don't use them at all, so personally even thou Jonh Carmack may have used them and he is a master programmer, personally I haven't been using exceptions at all, only assert or even just a simple goto (this last one I've read, some high level languages like JAVA, masquerade as exceptions). https://youtu.be/UNXHK8O-B_g?t=5630 http://xahlee.info/comp/why_i_hate_exceptions.html Jonathan Blow about his JAI language

"so I'd imagine support for gamepads might have existed in vanilla idTech 4" No vanilla idtech 4 has no gamepad support, is possible to go around that by using some emulation/translation software, that maps gamepad cmds to keyboard cmds but the code itself has no idea about gamepads. (that can be easelly changed today) idSoftware were not fans of those for FPS's when Doom 3 was made (that I totally agree), they were openly against gamepads (that has of course changed now) the game was also PC exclusive for years, they were a very PC centric company in the past.

Oh ok thanks for the info cabalistic, thanks for trying to solve it at lest. Btw I did all in my power, trying to make AMD aware of this problem, I exposed the problem on twitter to the official driver guy and I sent two bug reports on this problem, using the driver bug report feature, but unless many other AMD users do the same, I don't think they will prioritize this particular bug, if only a few complain.

Did something changed in the latest dev 2.10 dev16330-9508 version about bindless textures? I didn't updated my AMD RX 570X driver and when I enabled bindless textures before they were broken and today just because, I enabled it and textures are fine! Are you guys just silently disabling the feature in AMD GPU's now or is it really working? How can I tell?

Not sure if this is what you wanted or if TDM engine as something better but idtech 4 does have the ability too blend two materials, afaik only two, using Black and white (RGBA) vertex colors painted unto the mesh, was used on Doom 3 for many Mars and hell terrain models. https://modwiki.dhewm3.org/VertexColor_(Material_stage_keyword) https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=DrVertexBlend_(tutorial) https://web.archive.org/web/20080418194854/http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=12067 The ability to use terrain masking, to support more than two materials, like what Quake Wars used for their terrain, would be awesome but alas no source code for us to see how they did it. Apart from the later the only other option more or less possible, that I personally know, is painting all the materials you want, in blender (or other 3D tool) and bake them down into a single texture, than if possible, use the unfinished Mega Texturing system, to display this huge, baked single terrain texture, in small chunks very fast but afaik that code was removed entirely from the TDM engine. Without MT or unless someone implements virtual texturing into TDM, unfortunately, this means that with this technique, only very small terrain peace's are viable, why, because this can create a huge terrain texture that even with compression, could have many GB of size (depending on resolution and compression used), and so be very heavy, specially for older GPU's, with low amounts of VRAM space. Btw perhaps something like this is now possible in TDM? Perhaps using a GLSL shader? Or can it be replicated using the existing material system?

Congrats man that is very cool to get the recognition you deserve, hope is not very hard to bring it to TDM.

I see no fade in/out, in that test map the entities just blink out of existence do I have to turn something on? edit: ho I see it now, is obviously not alpha blending but alpha testing, like used on the Doom 3 monsters and peter_spy example, but works fine. I will need to try harder it seems.

That looks very good, like I said, I did a bad job and that proves it.

You are right, the doom 3 like effect I used was bad for LODing but I concede that I may just have done a bad job, I tried some other alpha textures but it just looked strange and not a smooth transition like I wanted, so I gave up. Others may make it look and work well anyone is free to try.

Is this fade in and out even possible? I know almost nothing about rendering but I tried to do it, in Dhewm3 and no matter what i tried, it just didn't worked, the only alpha fading, I could do was on lights and material colors, alpha was always totally invisible or visible, there was no in-between. The only "fade" I could easily do, was the normal monster burn effect used on Doom 3, but is bad for LODing and like I said uses alpha testing, not alpha fading. Perhaps you need a shader for this that Doom 3 and Dewm3 engine lacks? Btw this seems very strange, when you have the translucent option, but it seems to be a hack and objects with it on, do not interact with light, bad for grass, it stays full bright in shadow, but I could be totally wrong and just not knowing how to do it, very probable, like I said, I'm not a graphics/rendering guy. Also Quake Wars engine seems to do LODing using a technique called alpha dithering, not alpha fading, if you guys extract the quake wars assets, you will see in Textures/common the various dither textures they use for the fading affect, to my ignorant eyes, seems to be used just for a texture animation, where you change a alpha mask texture for one with more and more pixels disabled, and small and small in size, in a grid like pattern.

No problem, glad to help.

I love horror games, some of my favorites are those from Frictional games and Silent Hill so I agree, the fact that someone likes or not horror games, could influence the preference of Doom 3 over the older and new Doom's.

Yes I played Prey 2006 and Quake 4, finished both more than once, but this is because both followed more less the Doom 3 formula, with their own special sauce, being Prey the most unique in that regard with the portal stuff. About Doom eternal never played it, so I can't say much about it but based on the videos I saw, looked more of the same from Doom 2016 just in a greater scale.

I completely love Doom 3, it was my first introduction to the Doom franchise, so sad that idSoftware decided to go back to its, Serious Sam like roots. Just to put things in perspective, I finished Doom 3, 10 times or more, start to finish, while Doom 2016, I never finished one single time, found it to be repetitive and boring, never bought Doom Eternal because of it. Doom 3 to me was like a movie experience, a somewhat serious, more mature game, for example the Doom 3 marine, was a normal man, put into a unusual situation that pushed him to its limits, modern doom is like a arcade kiddies game, where you are a literal super hero that everyone should fear and the player ego goes through the roof because "YOU ARE THE SLAYER!!!", some may like this but personally I don't.

Not trying to start a flame war or a fanboyish debate here but IMO that is a really huge exaggeration, AMD drivers aren't THAT bad, specially when I have a AMD GPU and know how good or bad it is, in general in D3D and Vulkan games, it works perfectly, in OpenGL games is hit or miss, so yes their OpenGL support could be better or at lest comparable to Nvidia but going from, not that good OpenGL support, to "Absolutely Miserable Drivers corporation" is a really big jump. And not trying to imply anything here, but I just have to say and I swear for my mother life that I love very much that the AMD drivers I have used in the last 5 years, have been fine in pretty much all games I play, apart from a single recent feature on TDM, Bindless Textures, hell I work in my spare time, on Dhewm 3 engine, a idtech 4, OpenGL based engine, like TDM, as you know and it "just works", even other OpenGL games like the ones from Frictional Games, work well, no obvious broken graphical features (perhaps they don't use BT's?), this on windows, don't know about Linux. Again I'm not implying anyone is doing a bad job in TDM engine I hope that is clear. /// And about FSR, I have tried it on this game demo and it worked just fine, when playing a 1440p or higher, in quality or ultra quality FSR level, unfortunately playing in 1080p (the rez that I play the most), even at ultra FSR quality, was obviously inferior to the native 1080p image (it is essentially upscaling a 720p image to 1080p, the information is just not there).

This person also add problems with BT on some AMD laptop GPU's and was able to solve it by doing the following Is this something you guys are aware?

I remember that thread very well but somehow I didn't associated it with what totallytubular was asking, most be tired...

sikkmod for Doom 3 afaik has post process godrays, so is apparently possible the problem, is that afaik he modified the engine c++ code to support that and his shaders are ARB and not GLSL... cabalistic, not that I'm a expert in this stuff but I don't see why a single directional light, couldn't be marked has the "sun" direction and its light origin, used for the effect, could be done perhaps by requiring that it be named that particular name, "sun". I assume not many mission developers over used directional lights perhaps one or two are used and I assume a few even name it "sun" but I could be totally wrong.