Ray traced q3

Deadwing

Dont know if this has been posted before, but i thought id link to it anyway.
www.gamershell.com has a video a bunch of college students from germany (i think) made of quake 3, only completely ray traced instead of rasterised. Its pretty damn impressive, makes q3a look more like doom3. Its a big file, (28mb) but damn nice

Giblet

Shoulda linked directly to it, can't find it anywhere!

Deadwing

http://www.gamershell.com/download_6178.shtml

done and done

Giblet

I like how they rip off the Unreal 3 engine video.. nice

KdjaCL

Looks crap Still looks like quake only shinier.

kdjac

CombatCow

Yeah that was probably the most boring tech demos i have ever seen.....an it wasn't evan good looking...Omg Q3 can do shadows and colored lighting :rolleyes:

CombatCow

KdjaCL

the new MOH game is using a heavily modified Q3 engine ,jebus it looks great. Took me a while to believe it was the q3 engine.


Kdjac

zAbbo

seen this last week, to run q3 ray traced, you'd need some serious power(about 20 fps@36 GHz in 512x512 with 4xFSAA)

interesting, but useless

tba

Originally posted by bazH
seen this last week, to run q3 ray traced, you'd need some serious power(about 20 fps@36 GHz in 512x512 with 4xFSAA)

interesting, but useless

surely they didnt do it in real time?

Sir Random

Anyone remember Tenebrae Quake? It added stencil shadows and per pixel lighting to the original Quake code. Not perfect, but very impressive for what it is. Bump mapped textures everywhere brings a real 3D feel to it, well worth the download if you're interested in this stuff.

http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/

btw, it's not a movie, you can actually play it (the Quake demo levels)

Deadwing

Woah that tenebrae quake looks impressive. You used it, sir random? Just wondering if its hard to run/install etc. *will be downloading it when i get home*

Sir Random

Originally posted by Deadwing
Woah that tenebrae quake looks impressive. You used it, sir random? Just wondering if its hard to run/install etc. *will be downloading it when i get home*

It's simple to install (requires Quake full/demo). I got it from PCGamer last year and it's very impressive. Screenshots don't do it justice, you need to be moving to see the dynamic lighting in action.

Deadwing

Sweet, ill give it a try. i already tried fuhquake, that was cool, ill see how this runs, cheers

:EDIT:
just installed it, and wow! i mean its not perfect, theres some fps and clipping issues, but damn it looks good. now ive another excuse not to study for my hardware exam :dunno: