Cnet have posted Steve Jobs' keynote speech from the Mac thing that is happening, which features John Carmack demonstrating their new engine, running on a Mac with a GeForce 3. The quality is not astounding, but I had my Oh Face on. Oh. Go and watch it! Thanks rerun for the link.

OMFG thats looks sweet but i still wouldn't get a mac

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Local mirror is in the pipeline....

Coming soon to www.rukh.net

you got scared playing unreal singleplayer
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Did i say scare?

No sorry i meant amusement for acid =P

Seriously, the opening levels of unreal chasing that alien was pretty cool

After that it was just mindless boring killing

Rukh's Haus

make it clicky next time for the lazy ppls =)

Bugger the footage - no one picked up Trog's awesome usage of an "Office Space" quote!!

Creepy, everyone who's ever been to a QGL has seen trog's "Oh Face" its nuthin new :P

:p

K, just finished looking at the movie (courtesy of Rukh's site)

That's a damn cute looking engine...but I couldn't help feeling that the game is probably a very long long way off from release...since they'll need to wait for Hardware to catch up for one thing...

I actually found the demo of Luxo Jr. to be more jaw dropping...GF3 looks mighty sweet.

The luxo jr thing wasn't bad, but the shadows and the lighting in the id demo impressed me more. Especially the shadows near the end of the demo with the moving light sources, light shining through slats/fans/etc onto creatures. That was just awesome.

blah - you're a skeptic ;p

The raw power of the GF3 should easially be able to handle the poly count, the free antialiasing helps, and the programmable nfiniteFX Pixel Shader(tm) should handle all of the neat per-pixel shadow stuff.

The real question is - what's it going to look like on cards other than the GF3? And how are MS going to handle programmable GPUs through DX?

I like this quote from Broussard:

In 1991 my partner Scott and I went to Shreveport to meet with id Software about the new Commander Keen engine they had written.

At a small Chinese restaurant, over dinner, a simple question was asked of John Carmack. We wondered how he was able to do such amazing things with his engines (back then - a smooth scrolling platform game engine was a big deal).

He looked up from his dinner and with all due modesty just said: "Well, I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do."

We all nodded and accepted the statement matter of factly and went back to talking about games and eating our dinners.

That statement has always stuck with me, and I've told the story many times to internal developers. I feel it's appropriate to re-tell now.

Ten years, and many engines later, it's no different.

Last night John sent a shockwave through the world of gaming that will be felt for years. We got a peek at Doom 3 - or at least it's engine.

Yup, he's pretty damned good as what he does all right :)

/applause

I think that this quote by Brak from Space Ghost is even more relevant...

"I like Pork!"

And remember kids: "John Carmack" rearranged spells "rope the goat".

I think there's something in that for all of us.

While most of us drool, i bet most of us will have to play the game with every setting 'off' just tog et a decent frame rate...same as Q3A.

If you watch Q3A being played in high-res in 32 bit with everything 'on', its looks unbelievable, but alas, you goto a LAN (ala QGL) and check out what people are running. Vertex, blurry pic_maps and simple items. Some prefer it because they can see things more clearly, others for the big frame boost to keep the game smooth.

So unless we all go and buy GF3's for however many thousands of dollars it will be, will Doom3 end up being 'Doom3 looking like GL Doom2'?

If steve jobs were truly gay in every sense of YOUR word.... you wouldn't even have a GF3 so quit yer b****ing

The Geforce3 is due out in the next month or two. The 'New Doom', on the other hand, isn't likely to see the light of day until at least 2002, I would assume. By then, the Geforce3 will be extremely cheap - going on Nvidia's usual performance, the 'GF3 Ultra' will be released towards the end of this year, and who knows what after that.

In other words, GF3 will be affordable for the average user by the release of the new Doom (hell, it could quite possibly be the low-end card on the market).

As to the 'turning everything off', the new doom is supposed to be predominantly single-player. The reason people turn everything off in Q3 is cos we want the maximum frames possible. That isn't as important in single-player, where you can more fully appreciate the eye candy :)

More than your mum makes in a month :P

Now now hunter....

you know how the little boys get cut when you make references to their parents paying for stuff

like $2k a year insurance for silvias

*ducks*

if it wasn't for steve jobs we'd have the gf3 on pc before mac

i reckon it'd be awesome if id just forgot about the deathmatch and made it an uber coop game

sif you'd want to get past the laser things anyway

yeah and from what guv said it actually got better after the frog/mosquito levels

oh hold on i'll have to restart to win2k

stupid rally masters keeps blue screening so i have to run 98

you're such a kiwislut acid

yeah and you can read up on all the latest kiwi gossop as well