Billy Idol
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well...but this fundamentally breaks the illusion during gaming imo and cannot (and should not!!) be ignored for future evolutions of this tech..similar to other "artefacts as e.g. aliasing!
Rage (id Software)
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well...but this fundamentally breaks the illusion during gaming imo and cannot (and should not!!) be ignored for future evolutions of this tech..similar to other "artefacts as e.g. aliasing!
In the city there is evidence of both normal maps and specular maps in the stores and such, specularity is kept quite low for most of the places.
Specular map is mostly used as a mask for cube maps.
Not sure if the big wasteland scene has all maps.
What I'm sure is that the tech would be incredible for adventure games and/or JRPGs, FF series springs to mind.
Bah... that's why I thought they will introduce long range weapons (with assorted scopes and radars) in the game. Long distance warfare can be interesting too (The distance has a natural fog-of-war effect).
How 'bout a weapons pack, Id ?
That kinda makes sense as the wastelands have the largest surface area, whereas cities are very small and so it's not such a big cost to have multiple layers.
Then again the talk on virtual texturing always mentions a lot of data, 10 bytes or so... they also store other information AFAIK, related to the type of the surface and so on.
Been playing the game some more and I'm really liking id's approach to weapons and ammo upgrades. They've designed it in a way that makes even the "weaker" weapons like the pistol fun to use. My favorite ammo for the pistol has got to be the kill burst rounds. It just looks, sounds and feels badass even though it doesn't do a lot of damage to the stronger armored enemies but it's a challenge to use because you have to constantly reload it after each burst. It works quite nicely on mutants when used in conjunction with the wing sticks allowing you to reload and not be vulnerable.
The Authority bullpup is pretty cool too, though it's not very challenging to use which is expected given it's supposed to be a low recoil PDW. Pretty neat just watching and listening to the reload animation of having a huge capacity top load magazine like that of a FN P90.
As far as the double barrel shotgun...well I haven't used it much yet because it just wastes ammo but i'll start using it soon. I find that's it's more useful against slow mini bosses where constant reloading after each shot is not that critical.
BTW did I mention that the FOV is very annoying? Your peripherals are stretched just like when you use "smart stretch" to fill a 16:9 screen with 4:3 material.
The Authority bullpup is pretty cool too, though it's not very challenging to use which is expected given it's supposed to be a low recoil PDW. Pretty neat just watching and listening to the reload animation of having a huge capacity top load magazine like that of a FN P90.
As far as the double barrel shotgun...well I haven't used it much yet because it just wastes ammo but i'll start using it soon. I find that's it's more useful against slow mini bosses where constant reloading after each shot is not that critical.
BTW did I mention that the FOV is very annoying? Your peripherals are stretched just like when you use "smart stretch" to fill a 16:9 screen with 4:3 material.
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Yea I'm really liking the shooting aspect of it. The way it's designed feels really good and makes the pretenders look bad. I haven't had this feeling in a long time. I would say probably since the original Halo. The enemy AI is also top notched, combine that with how the shooting feels, it's the best designed shooter I've played...well....since Halo Combat Evolved but I'm old-school like that so that's my bias.
It does feel very good as a shooter. But this is ID, and if there's one thing they really know how to do well, it's shooters. It's like the daddies back in town after a seven year absence.
Now all we need are the HD remakes of their back catalogue. I would kill for a bit of Wolfenstein or to wreak havoc in Quake 2 again!!
dragonelite
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And the bloggo sphere doesn't really help if i look at N4G the fanboys are running loose.
Maybe more in some area, but honestly I'm not found it so dramatically different to 360. There are a lot of video on youtube.
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What does it mean?
It has worse pop in (than fully installed 360 version) and more resolution drops, other than that it's very good (it even has slighty better framerate). You can eliminate pop-in completly with SSD.
That's the point of n4g, it's literally pretty much the most controversial video game news they can drag up and exaggerate. A straight ploy for views I guess.
I think its incorrect to use the word pop up here, cause that's not the issue with RAGE. The issue is with delayed texture streaming, on PS3 apparently its a lot more noticeable when compared to the installed 360 ver. (and even here you get quite a lot of it)
Is the SSD HDD version the best then ? i.e., no pop in at all ? If the 360 full HDD install also has many pop ins, then perhaps the tech is too heavyweight at this point.
Using unbuffered IO means less time is wasted copying the read/write buffer in the kernel. But it also means that the app (usually) has to align the buffer to the sector boundary. It may prevent Sony from improving PS3 file system later (or create b/c issues in the future?)
And more memory is of course better ! ^_^
Using unbuffered IO means less time is wasted copying the read/write buffer in the kernel. But it also means that the app (usually) has to align the buffer to the sector boundary. It may prevent Sony from improving PS3 file system later (or create b/c issues in the future?)
And more memory is of course better ! ^_^
dragonelite
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Only go there because some of the news/leaks get there faster then Neogaf.
It means there's a forced delay before the data is made available to the system.
I haven't really noticed the pop in unless I've been looking for it and so far I haven't noticed any drop in frame rate.
RenegadeRocks
Legend
http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8206
An artist shared a lot of assets from RAGE !!! Makes me wanna chk out the game !
An artist shared a lot of assets from RAGE !!! Makes me wanna chk out the game !
