ask him if he gonna incorporate atmon polygons into idtech6

year after some fools chatted about it, youtube full of demos with 30 trillion polys on screen

ehm?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VTknttRrNKw/TIqFMQt...shot_3.jpg

Talk about overkill.

Yeah, they have been boasting about that since.. 1993? It will never work. Even if they ever got it to work, which they haven't, the system is still incapable of rendering animations - you would be stuck with a static world.

its why youtube got bombed with all the demo vids, dell etc all go packages to test it out, and its on most tech sites

most of the vids have 1m + views since 1 aug

... and they have no actual working model, and still will not be able to incorporate animation into it at all. It's useless.

depends if nvidia or ati open another GPU thread to transform normal polys into atom polys using another core on CPU on pci e 3.0 cards, which open the doors to all engines and applications n shit with pre processing

the vid is probaly fake, and has less detailed polys then rage link under it

No.

atom poly code in card drivers like physX engines call on or 3d apps and super computers that make movies

animation is played in engine
>transform polys to atoms
frame rendered
frame on screen

It can't actually render physics, as nothing can move in the engine.

Well, they say in the comments box on the vid "Yes grumpy forum people, we do have animation, but you'll just have to be patient".

So.. maybe... Oo

But it's basically a big troll, so that probably won't happen.

I don't think anyone doesn't want it to happen, though, because that shit looks pretty damn good.

They've been saying it since 1993.

why would it need to render physics, atom is just some "technology" to transform normal polygons into atom polygons, model design and build process doesnt change, the modeller just does`nt have to worry much about the number of normal polys` they use on a model

somewhere in the engine or GFX card, the polys would call the atom function to transform polys into atoms

physX is in nvidia cards and does random manipulations to external physic code in the engine http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_new.html

games that use physX are "slightly" different to games played on ati card, ati doesnt have physX

No.

yup, find out more about it all, and it is all it does, you not working with atom polys during design, its business as normal when making models, and that what dell says

somewhere during the processing of all http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch14.html and before the frame is rendered, poly`s are converted to atom polys

does it have custom hand models tho?

only if some modeller makes some for failed transfer mesh, but its a shit player model..

make custom player models, modellers can make inview arms for it too and have custom voice taunts and extra sounds

Q43A does 100% custom MP player models

anything else Q4, when a player is playing and using the failed transfer model, on their screen will be the default marine arms and skin holding your weapons, while the world you will be the failed transfer model with skinny arms and wasted flesh on your arms

sry, not interested then.

play as the medic, and you will a dodgy skin change and have a white armor patch on your glove, or pro green/orange models have skin changes but armor is not as bright as the world skin cos its too eye catching

start a wifi server in your quakecon hotel if you aint going to strip bar at night , 1.4.2 win/linux

http://www.moddb.com/mods/q43a/downloads

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8386977075/its-a-scam

i kinda remember playing delta force 2 i think, and the terrain was not poly's but more like crude grass, even though it was supposed to be snow i think. That was kinda weird, but i guess novalogic really tried their own way with games. Can't say it worked out for them.

those were voxels (volumetric pixels) iirc, same thing that powered the awesome outcast game.

Damn outcast was amazing :(

i have seen the other vids a long ago and they said it uses some kind of search engine and only renders what you are seeing. i would still call it fake, but we will see if they will ever release the tools.

i found the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWujsO2V2IA&feature=related

I don't understand how they can come up with all that, yet still be incapable of uploading a 1080p youtube video without fucking it up.

here's more info from someone who has coded more then just mods.
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8386977075/its-a-scam

i have already said the vid is probaly fake

Q43A isnt a few tweaks on code, most of the driver/sDK has been recoded which is more then any other mod for idtech has ever done before, and made a crap game good and fully playable, adds more new features n shit then any other mod ever has and so on, when most mods make the game crap

to make this vid you would need a super computer or a couple of months to render then scenes and animation paths

yeah what modern games need is a new gfx engine since there hasnt been enough effort put into graphics instead of gameplay in the last decade

He wont. He made a comment about it on twitter.

https://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/98127398683422720

"no chance of a game on current gen systems, but maybe several years from now. Production issues will be challenging."

Which essentially is carmack language for "close to impossible to make it working in an actual game.

probaly no worse then having plants with wind affecting them, what is wind in a physics engine and game, or realtime water

plant models are all static, until you put wind up in atmosphere files

and its probaly down to nvidia and ati to add it to the cards and how they handle poly`s, while nothing much really changes anywhere else, like physX code