best engine?
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April 19, 2005 01:07 PM
Probably Doom 3.
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April 19, 2005 01:35 PM
Quote: Original post by johnhattan
Probably Doom 3.
Or the latest Unreal engine. Both look pretty nifty.
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April 19, 2005 02:32 PM
Quote: Original post by evolutionalQuote: Original post by johnhattan
Probably Doom 3.
Or the latest Unreal engine. Both look pretty nifty.
Epic have dropped OpenGL support haven't they? Besides, even if it did the U3 engine is indevelopment, and so unreleased.
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April 19, 2005 03:03 PM
I think FarCry's CRYTEK engine is the best I've ever seen.
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April 19, 2005 03:10 PM
I guess the real question is "best at what?"
Looking at just Doom3 and Unreal:
Doom3 offers an approach supporting fewer polygons that have more pixel processing against them,
Unreal offers higher polygon count with less emphasis on pixel details.
Doom3 is terrific for indoor scenes and management, with limited quality on outdoor scenes
Unreal does a good job of outdoor scenes (Men Of Valor).
...ultimately its what the developer "likes" or what the game is about, and that's what makes an engine "the best".
Looking at just Doom3 and Unreal:
Doom3 offers an approach supporting fewer polygons that have more pixel processing against them,
Unreal offers higher polygon count with less emphasis on pixel details.
Doom3 is terrific for indoor scenes and management, with limited quality on outdoor scenes
Unreal does a good job of outdoor scenes (Men Of Valor).
...ultimately its what the developer "likes" or what the game is about, and that's what makes an engine "the best".
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April 19, 2005 03:12 PM
Quote: Original post by oconnellseanm
I think FarCry's CRYTEK engine is the best I've ever seen.
Yes, that is a fine looking engine, however, the OpenGL implementation of it's renderer is sketchy, at best. They said themselvs, you should only ever be using OpenGL as your renderer with Far Cry if you absolutely can not use Direct 3D.
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April 19, 2005 04:09 PM
Quote: Original post by superdeveloper
I guess the real question is "best at what?"
Looking at just Doom3 and Unreal:
Doom3 offers an approach supporting fewer polygons that have more pixel processing against them,
Unreal offers higher polygon count with less emphasis on pixel details.
Doom3 is terrific for indoor scenes and management, with limited quality on outdoor scenes
Unreal does a good job of outdoor scenes (Men Of Valor).
...ultimately its what the developer "likes" or what the game is about, and that's what makes an engine "the best".
Unreal 3 offers a better approach than Doom 3 by far when it comes to pixel details. It supports normal and parallax mapping, Doom III does not even have parallax mapping. Doom 3 does not even compare in my opinion to the Unreal 3 engine.
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April 19, 2005 04:48 PM
Quote: Original post by oconnellseanmQuote: Original post by superdeveloper
I guess the real question is "best at what?"
Looking at just Doom3 and Unreal:
Doom3 offers an approach supporting fewer polygons that have more pixel processing against them,
Unreal offers higher polygon count with less emphasis on pixel details.
Doom3 is terrific for indoor scenes and management, with limited quality on outdoor scenes
Unreal does a good job of outdoor scenes (Men Of Valor).
...ultimately its what the developer "likes" or what the game is about, and that's what makes an engine "the best".
Unreal 3 offers a better approach than Doom 3 by far when it comes to pixel details. It supports normal and parallax mapping, Doom III does not even have parallax mapping. Doom 3 does not even compare in my opinion to the Unreal 3 engine.
Argh! Why are people comparing a technology that's about 9 months old, to one that won't even be out for at least another year or so? If anything, you should be comparing ID's in development technology with Epics indevelopment technology.
Yes the Unreal 3 engine is really impressive, yes it has more features than the Doom 3 engine, if it didn't I'd be worried about Epic. However, lets compare like with like.
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I think FarCry's CRYTEK engine is the best I've ever seen.
The CRYTEK engine is really impressive. Definately the best at outdoor rendering.
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April 20, 2005 04:56 AM
Quote: Original post by oconnellseanm
Unreal 3 offers a better approach than Doom 3 by far when it comes to pixel details. It supports normal and parallax mapping, Doom III does not even have parallax mapping. Doom 3 does not even compare in my opinion to the Unreal 3 engine.
Well doom 3 has everything doom3 needs and it's a fairly old engine.
Most of it was compleated a few years ago.
Now while it's not in the game, paralax mapping has been added in an mod, so it's entierly possible to do that in the doom engine.
allso they chose to use only one shader for bump/texture/ppl in doom.
this means that everything looks the same(sort of like plastic).
But that is possible to change to.
Unreal 3 on the other hand can harly even be run on even the most powerfull graphics cards.
So theoreticly you could rig doom3 to look sort of like Unreal 3.
The next id engine will probobly blow Unreal 3 to pieces when it comes to visual quality, but that's in the future.
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