Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2025?

On Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:39:03 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

but it suffered from some
grainy textures and unimpressive models. At first glance, the game
looked a lot older than it really was.

Did it still use ID-Tech 5 megatexturing? The original Rage also had a
grainy texture problem because of it. Especially, and this is baffling,
the high res textures. It looked like it was taken with a disposable
Kodak Disc camera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_film

Megatexturing (MT) had a lot of cool benefits, but it also takes a lot of
work to implement well, so a throwaway attempt isn't going to look very
good. The whole point of MT is to provide a seamless, handcrafted
environment without tiling everything. If all they did was then
copy/paste tile everything, the game missed the point.

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Zag

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