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Adair · May 31st, 2002

I think this game will be alot of fun. (I'm already a big FPS fan anyway.)
The reason the game looks so good is not due to a high polygon count though. What they actually did is they created high poly characters and did their lighting effects on them. Then they made lower poly characters and somehow told the rendering engine to light the lower poly characters in the same way as the high poly characters. I'm pretty sure that John Carmack is the first to use this technique for lighting. Also its obvious that the textures are very well done.
Just the detail put into the urinals alone makes me want to wet myself.

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May 31st, 2002	#18 (permalink)
Adair Ghost Hacker Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 1,830	I think this game will be alot of fun. (I'm already a big FPS fan anyway.) The reason the game looks so good is not due to a high polygon count though. What they actually did is they created high poly characters and did their lighting effects on them. Then they made lower poly characters and somehow told the rendering engine to light the lower poly characters in the same way as the high poly characters. I'm pretty sure that John Carmack is the first to use this technique for lighting. Also its obvious that the textures are very well done. Just the detail put into the urinals alone makes me want to wet myself. __________________ WindowsXP pro \| ASUS A7N8X Nforce2 motherboard \| Athlon XP 1700+(1.46 Ghz) IBM 40GB 7200rpm \| 512Mb DDR PC3000 \| Leadtek geforce4 Ti4400 \| SB live X-gamer 16x DVDrom & 4x4x24x CDrewriter \| Enermax EG465 (430watt power supply)