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Damn impressive!

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  • 17-04-2005 3:34pm
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    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,844 ✭✭✭✭


    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!


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    JackKelly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭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.


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    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭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 :p
    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.


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    ^whitey^
    Registered Users Posts: 843 ✭✭✭^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.


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    Giblet
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    Yep all the textures are generated by algorithms.


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    Gone West
    Registered Users Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


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


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    Giblet
    Registered Users Posts: 11,979 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    Yep.


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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


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    deckie27
    Registered Users Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭deckie27


    Wow thats amazing

    PS how do u shoot in the game

    Dec


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    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,162 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Astonishing :eek:

    Check out their website for more!


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    CyberGhost
    Registered Users Posts: 5,554 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


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


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    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭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.


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    zAbbo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭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


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    kjt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,057 ✭✭✭kjt


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


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    CyberGhost
    Registered Users Posts: 5,554 ✭✭✭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


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    angelofdeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭angelofdeath


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


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    Khannie
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 37,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


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