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Posted by Natus on Wed Apr 27th at 6:26pm 2005

i cant download the video smiley
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Posted by Captain P on Wed Apr 27th at 8:07pm 2005

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Dosn't look that much better than the stress test, and almost non of that was ever put into the game. Furthermore, community mappers arn't using the power of then engin because we dont know how to make all that fancy stain glass, etc.



Well, I've seen some people using fancy effects already. I think it's just because mappers spend less time with texture creation and more with architecture that you won't see these effects used a lot.

And 170 MB for this, well, that's too large. It looks nice, but I believe it's something you have to see real-time in-game before you can really appreciate it.
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Posted by G4MER on Wed Apr 27th at 10:33pm 2005

Now I feel like a Ferret who stubbled onto a bunch of shiney stones.. I was impressed, and you humens were like.. it just car keys you stupid ferret..

".Drool but they jingle when I run around.. shiney object OHHH.. .drool"

But the dynamic lighting video for Doom3 was much better, I have to agree.

As for the Download it only took like 56 seconds for me. And I am on Road Runner Cable.. humm strange that it was taking so long for everyone else..

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Posted by ReNo on Wed Apr 27th at 10:47pm 2005

This isn't a dynamic lighting video, its high dynamic range lighting, which is a different topic entirely. Dynamic lighting is lighting which can change in real time. Source has pretty limited capabilities when it comes to this, due to the prominent use of precompiled lightmaps, while Doom 3 used dynamic lighting extensively. High dynamic range lighting offers far more levels of lighting value for each pixel - most engines offer only 256 levels of brightness, which compared to what the eye can differentiate between is very low. I believe source is one of the only engines that currently allows for it, though I think I heard it was added to Far Cry? It needs pretty high spec graphics cards in order to run at acceptable speeds though, so you'll probably need a near top of the range current gen card to make use of it.
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