Carmack Shows Off the id Tech 5 Engine

MojoKid writes "id's keynote address from this past week's Quakecon featured John Carmack revealing details of the id tech 5 engine. For more on the subject, GamesIndustry.biz has an interview with id developer Steve Nix about the project. 'I know that when we started working with Splash Damage on Enemy Territory they wanted large, detailed outdoor terrains, and they had some ideas on how to dynamically load the textures and everything, and John [Carmack] said, 'Why don't we try this new approach and make the entire terrain one massive texture, and then just load blocks of texture in dynamically that you can see at any one given time?' So John did the initial work on it, got it up and running, and it just so happened that that work was the basis for what we have in id Tech 5.'"

Comments

Re:Booth babes?

[clem]

Look on the bright side -- she'll still be smiling even when you get close to her.

Re:Carmack is the real deal.

[mrchaotica]

I cannot put into words how awesome John Carmack is.

And he's even more awesome because he GPLs his old code!