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Sketch Quake Renderer
icemind writes "And you thought Panoramic Quake was cool. NPRQuake is actually three renderers which make Quake levels look hand sketched, like they're blueprints or even done with brushstrokes, all in real time. Very cool, although if this interview is anything to go by it sadly isn't being updated anymore." I'm not sure if making Quake look like that Aha's Take on Me video is an idea that will make quake playable, but is really sweet.
You wouldn't need a mod to do this. After all, you probably don't know what Noah Adams looks like. For all you know, Noah Adams looks just like one of the regular monsters.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
An Edward Gorey renderer:
i nks.html
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http://students.washington.edu/cread/gorey/goreyl
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/3441/object1
--Jim
we're quaking away
i don't know what
i'm to say i'll say it anyway
today's another day to find you
shying away
i'll be coming for your hide ok
take on me
take me on
you'll be gone
in a sec or two
so needless to say
you're odds and ends
and that's me ducking away
quickly learning that life is ok
say after me
it's much better to be safe than sorry
take on me
take me on
you'll be gone
in a sec or two
oh the things that you say
is it live or
just to play my worries away
you're all the things i've got to dismember
you're shying away
i'll be coming for you anyway
take on me
take me on
you'll be gone
in a sec or two
(With apologies to A-Ha)
proof, n. A demonstration that a conclusion is implied by certain premises and axioms.
The current incarnation has several improved renderers and works non-invasively. In Other Words, one can play Quake 3, as well as many other GL games/applications (works with A|W's Maya), with pencil sketches, blueprints, depth-cued wireframe, etc. etc.
It's really great work, Alex presented it at the I3D conference this year. It isn't being released to the public at this point, but for more information, including pictures and a video, look here when the slashdotting dies down: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Gallery/Stylized/
NPRQuake was done a year ago by Chris Herrman, Andy Gardner, Steve Dutcher, Erik Bakke, and me.
We aren't working on it any more -- we've all pretty much moved on. Although it did lead to some research presented at I3D this year. You can see some of that here.
Sorry for it being Windows only, but since we only had like two weeks to do the project, it was pretty much just hack hack hack. And since my Linux box doesn't have a 3D accelerator...
It wouldn't be too hard to port -- mostly just exchanging the DLL code for shared library stuff. Although the code is rather unsightly.
There are a lot of things that could be vastly improved. Silhouette edges, for instance--even a naive method would be fast enough. Also, transforming geometry to screen space and drawing there would help various things.
I think it would be great if someone wanted to pick it up and apply it to some real mod with a rendering style focused on that mod. For example, do a comic-book style for some comic-based mod, or a traditional toon-style for some "cartoony" mod.
Alex Mohr
as a cheat code. The server is down so I can't compare, but the 1996 n64 Turok game had a pen and ink mode, I believe it was one bit, this sounds greyscaled? Still pretty cool at the time. Now is there a premiere plugin that automatically Aha's things?
when Push Comes to Shove
...of some light jazz music, followed by two soft voiced announcers saying something like "Today, on News of the World, ++31337 D00D++, in the words of Shakespeare, slipped off this mortal coil, after riding DeathUrges boomstick."
And now, back to All Things Considered....
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A tad sketchy!
*rimshot* *booo*
:)
This just shows that just because a game has two sequals to it does not mean the original is dead. Even more interesting is that The CPL is running an up coming tournament which includes DOOM2 and QuakeWorld as a deathmatch games.
Certainly interesting for a couple of games most people considered dead...
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Check out my blackbox styles
or a Dali maybe. Or one that makes it look like it was drawn by "Billy, age 7"... That would be sweeet....
+++ ATH0 +++
I always wanted to frag Click and Clack.
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it's already been done.
check out Pencil Whipped
Non Photorealistic Rendering is very cool indeed.
:)
Nvidia's website has some demos on how to do sketch rendering on their hardware. Intel have done some pretty cool research on sketch rendering and cartoon rendering.
This page has a lot of good links. Check any recent Siggraph set of proceedings as well.
Most current techniques seem to involve "thresholding" the Lambertian diffuse lighting equation, so banding the colours used, or using that as in index into a 1d texture map which contains the different shades used for a model.
Hmm. Check the websites above for a better explanation than that
Henry
i don't do sigs. oops.
You can choose the stealthy quickness of a Mara Liasson or the heavy-weapon "bad-assedness" of Karl Cassel.
And, yes, the NPR vs. PRI team fortress mod rocks!
If anyone is interested in non-photorealistic-rendering techniques, check out these link:
R R/realtimeNRR.html
http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~nick/realtimeN
and
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/npr/
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
pleeeaasse....
..Barny
Kinda reminds me of that ASCII filter I heard about a while back. Never got to see it in action, but I find it amusing that people buy 3D graphics cards to make the rendering really scream, then... convert it to something that really looks 2D. (Clever hacking, though!)
Hmm.. at least with this, people can get away with playing Quake on a schoolnight! Pop in a Dali or Picasso plugin, pretend it's Monet, or maybe one of the modern action-painters (all that blood spattering all over the place remind you of something?), and you can pass it off as... art research! Yeaah!
Parents might even think you're voluntarily picking up a little culture...
I would think it would be like Quake, only with drab commentary and stuffy classical music. Oh, and publicly funded.
Strom Thurmond; the dean of the US Senate...
Strom Thurmond; the dean of the US Senate...
the deadest fart on slashdot.
I'm not sure if making Quake look like that Aha's Take on Me video is an idea that will make quake playable...
Hey, now there's a mod idea! Of course, you'll have to create that pipe-wrench weapon the motorcycle dude tried to use on the lead singer.
Quakedude was fragged by Meat-Beater's pipe wrench
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
if quake is all cartoony then when you shoot something it will just have a black face or have a bandage appear on it. and it will be all better in like ten seconds later as though nothing had happened. and all the guns will be frying pans and cannons and 100 ton weights.
this would make quake really difficult so i vote against it.