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First Pictures of Quake IV

Posted by Zonk on from the on-wisconsin! dept.

Snaller writes "Yahoos GameDomain are looking ahead to 2005, and have the first pictures of Quake IV. For all those who have missed the Stroggs since Quake 2 - fear not, they are baaack! Quake IV will be made by Raven software using the Doom 3 engine."

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  1. Plastic wrap by supabeast! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One thing that really bugged me about Doom III was that everything appears to be wrapped in plastic. Be it metal, skin, paper or stone, everything was shiny. When I look at the Quake IV shots I see the same thing. I don't see this in games like Farcry, Painkiller, or UT 2004 (Or the next-gen UT engine demos) so I'm assuming that it's just got something to do with Doom III's lighting engine.

    Does this bug anyone else.

    1. Re:Plastic wrap by Have+Blue · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I personally chalk this up to the sudden appearance of detailed shaders. 3D games have had a certain "look" for years- a look that is missing a lot of aspects of real scenes. A lot of stylistic tricks were created to get around these limitations and improve appearances, and this is what we became used to as "looking good" or "realistic graphics". Suddenly, it becomes possible to put a lot more detail into things, the bar is raised, and the tricks can be replaced with more realistic alternatives- but this breaks the expectations we've developed.

      The real world really does have a lot of shiny things in it- walk around your room/office and see how many things have faint or blurry reflections in them, and how many have specular highlights (that change location depending on your view angle).