Damn impressive!

Basq

Brillant piece of work attached below!

It's about a 15 minute long animated movie... looks amazing and only 64KB!

Anyone know how did they did it so well (possibly DirectX or OpenGL), and only a 64KB file?

PS - the file to run is an EXE. Scanned it using an updated Kaspersky AV. It's safe but if you don't believe me, scan it yourself!

JackKelly

thats class. Anyone no of some more graphical demos? i have all the ati ones and i really like them.

Heres the 96kb game, by presumabely the same crowd. Its only small, but it still takes a fairly decent pc to run.

Mutant_Fruit

even though its 96kb doesn't mean it doesn't need a fast graphics card. The game uses all the advanced rendering techniques that you'd see in most games. Thats because all those functions are embedded in DirectX, all the game does is use them.

I read up on em before, and they're so small because they generate all the images and suchlike on the fly at the loading screen. There are no bitmaps, no jpegs, no nothing. For detailed descriptions of how they work, check out their website

We merely store the individual steps employed by the artists to produce their textures and meshes, in a very compact way. This allows us to get .much. higher data density than is achievable with normal data compression techniques, at some expense in artistic freedom and loading times.

^whitey^

There was a competition in a german (I think) magazine, a few years back to see who could create the highest rate of compression or something like that.
These guys won.

Giblet

Yep all the textures are generated by algorithms.

Gone West

so the 64k is basically a clever bit of maths and not some fancy texture thing.

Giblet

Yep.

Capt'n Midnight

there used to be a tiny one for flying over mars - fractal landscape

deckie27

Wow thats amazing

PS how do u shoot in the game

Dec

unkel

Astonishing :eek:

Check out their website for more!

CyberGhost

Amazing! can you imagine in couple of years, sending 10 dvd quality full movies to someone with an email? lol

Mutant_Fruit

CyberGhost wrote:

Amazing! can you imagine in couple of years, sending 10 dvd quality full movies to someone with an email? lol

It'll never happen. Ever. Theres limits to what this technology can achieve, and rendering DVD quality movies is DEFINATELY far beyond their capabilities.

zAbbo

CyberGhost wrote:

Amazing! can you imagine in couple of years, sending 10 dvd quality full movies to someone with an email? lol

gawd you spout some amount of retard crap on this forum

kjt

Damn thats amazing compression, good game for less than 100k!!!

CyberGhost

bazH wrote:

gawd you spout some amount of retard crap on this forum

I'm sorry for not being a genius like you

please bless us with your brilliant thoughts

angelofdeath

that kkreiger game was pretty amazing allright, haven't watched to other one yet, will do when i finish work

Khannie

bazH wrote:

gawd you spout some amount of retard crap on this forum

Jaysus. That's very harsh. No need for that IMO.

edit: In fact, the post was just independently reported to me as a bad post, and I have to agree with it. bazH: No more personal abuse. Let's just leave it at that.