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Do you think it will beat Unreal Engine 3 and even maybe look and perform better than crytek?
Do you think "id Tech 5" will be te next best engine?
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Haven't seen anything about it.
Is it going for "drab realisticness/brown everything" like UE3 or something a bit more imaginative?
Giz a link.
same as ut3/the current cod style engines really.
Very plastic looking people but very good model detail on them.
MEnt to have very good shadows though.
That's down to art design rather than the engine really.
That's is market really.
Crytek or ultra high end/realism, ut3/the id tech (doom)/quake engines for the mid rage.
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The crytek engine is very good but I just wonder if it could power games without so many poxy trees LOL I wonder if it would be as good in a city based game.
some people have made gfx scence etc in an urban enviroment and it looks great.
The next crytech engine (3) in crysis 2 has a whole section set in new york so we'll see how it handles urban environments
Yup, iirc megatexture is where the whole map is one giant texture, which then can be changed on the fly for level of detail, although having said that I'm sure I have read somewhere that these texture files as in excess of 10GB each!
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Megatexture was used in Quake Wars.
has been done before by quake wars.
was good but hardly spectacular.
The textures are no where near that size other wise your page file, ram and gfx ram would need a massive boost
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Yeah,it's using id tech 5, Megatextureing is meant to use very big textures (like 100k x 100k) without any performane hit ( so John says LOL).
lol, imagine waiting three hours for the game to load, only to swap every frame into VM
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lol, imagine waiting three hours for the game to load, only to swap every frame into VM
Thats the point of the new tech, its meant to use hardly and vram for textures. Last I heard it was about 8mb of vram for the textures needed.
...always?
"8MB for textures" sounds rather abstract..8mb needed in what context exactly?
My entirely personal opinion is that id just trade on their history, and have been over-rated for years. This 'new' (it's been talked about for bloomin' ages!) engine seems like more of the same. Remember how revolutionary the Doom III engine was meant to be?!
A little disconcerting that there is little new media for Rage. Didn't get released last year when it looked likely that it would be so I am really hoping for this year. Can't see it reaching us before q3 now. 
Doom 4 is what might (will) challenge the high end rigs since although using the i.d.tech 5 engine it will provide up to three times the graphical richness. So this engine might be a contender after all.
Doom 4 is what might (will) challenge the high end rigs since although using the i.d.tech 5 engine it will provide up to three times the graphical richness. So this engine might be a contender after all.
The textures are no where near that size other wise your page file, ram and gfx ram would need a massive boost
Textures that size you're looking at over 100gb uncompressed. Even with compression I bet your looking at 360 games on multiple dvds and requiring a HD install to fit the texture. RAM isnt the issue as Tech 5 uses a funky texture streaming technique.