Let's not get too worried about graphic card horsepower. Carmack is a genius with rendering engines, Quake3 is a testament to that given how smoothly it runs compared to other engines that came out afterwards. Quake3 blows Lithtech2 out of the water for example.
Carmack is aiming at a moving target and probably knows some Nvidia product secrets the rest of us don't. Also what Doom3 runs on NOW is not what it will run on when its released in a year or so. I bet it needs a 1.5+ Gigahertz machine with 1 gig of RAM just to run passably in its current in-production state, but that all changes with optimization.
I'm definitely eager to get my hands on the tools. The maps will not need a lighting compile (The big CPU/Memory/Time hog), given that the map file is used as-is by the game itself. That means all dynamic lighting (Again hinted at by his comment about being efficient with lighting). I don't know about other mappers, but I only use one light per fixture and tweak the hell out of it to get the right look, so I should be fine. With dynamic lighting you can't place sourceless lights, otherwise the shadows will look really odd... and I imagine using excessive numbers of light entities would tax the engine on runtime.
<!--QuoteBegin--Graheim+May 23 2002,17:13--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Graheim @ May 23 2002,17:13)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Nah, just wiat until right before the game is due to be realeased and the buy the GF6 or whatever is latest and greatest then. Give you more time to save lunch money too.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> ehem, there wont be a gf6 <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo--> The next graph card family Nvidia releases wont be called geforce,
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<!--QuoteBegin--Crisis+May 24 2002,12:32--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Crisis @ May 24 2002,12:32)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Cool huh.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> That's the one I like the least... :-\
Hey, the reason the shadows are pitch black in those shots is because there is only one light source in those scenes. If you watch the movie that i already posted the link for, you'll see that in-game with multiple shots, the shadows are not all pitch black.
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Carmack is aiming at a moving target and probably knows some Nvidia product secrets the rest of us don't. Also what Doom3 runs on NOW is not what it will run on when its released in a year or so. I bet it needs a 1.5+ Gigahertz machine with 1 gig of RAM just to run passably in its current in-production state, but that all changes with optimization.
I'm definitely eager to get my hands on the tools. The maps will not need a lighting compile (The big CPU/Memory/Time hog), given that the map file is used as-is by the game itself. That means all dynamic lighting (Again hinted at by his comment about being efficient with lighting). I don't know about other mappers, but I only use one light per fixture and tweak the hell out of it to get the right look, so I should be fine. With dynamic lighting you can't place sourceless lights, otherwise the shadows will look really odd... and I imagine using excessive numbers of light entities would tax the engine on runtime.
ehem, there wont be a gf6 <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
The next graph card family Nvidia releases wont be called geforce,
<a href="http://www.gamespy.com/e32002/image.asp?/e32002/pc/doom3b/9.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.gamespy.com/e32002/image.asp?/e32002/pc/doom3b/9.jpg</a>
Cool huh.
<a href="http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia512/home.cfm" target="_blank">This is that <b>I'm</b> saving up for.</a> <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
That's the one I like the least... :-\