Mudpie

On the same note take a look at farcry from crytek. They are developing PolyBump (doom3 uses a type of it) for other ppl to use.
They were in a few game mags but they have gone largly unoticed


Ben Gosney.

"There''s a war going on out there... and it aint easy" - Hardwar

The CryEngine looks great - particularly the plant/fauna life.
ex.

It's certainly impressive stuff, although there aren't too many screenshots on the official site. (only two.). I assume that the "polybump" technology is simply generating bump maps based on polygonal models.

The quality of some of the mudpie shots is insane...

Screenshot
Another one
And another
And yet another

I'd just be interested to hear about some of the technology behind this engine. All anybody *really* knows about it is that it will be a "massively multiplayer" game for people with broadband. In some ways I find this dissapointing, because I enjoyed the single player experience of myst and riven, and I think that this technology could be used to make an incredible single player game. But really, who care: look at the eye candy.

[edited by - skjinedmjeet on July 27, 2002 12:50:43 PM]

It has everything but a good name. I mean, seriously folks..

The MudPie Engine? . Could they at least think of something that sounds reasonably well?

If there''s some special reason for the awful name, please enlighten me!

They *could* have called it the Hampster Engine

Awful names are funny, it''s an on-going joke

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Are you sure this is a 3d engine, and not a 3d character walking on pre-rendered 3d backgrounds?

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Original post by Demosthenes
Are you sure this is a 3d engine, and not a 3d character walking on pre-rendered 3d backgrounds?

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[edited by - demosthenes on July 27, 2002 3:28:31 PM]

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while your at it, why don''t you tell them that Santa Clause isn''t real


I hope its not pre-rendered, but even if it is I may still give it a try. With lots of people, the puzzles might go a little faster...

someguy: "hmmm, this ones a stumper. how will we solve it?"
me: "umm, bathroom break, how about you handle this one..and I''ll get the next one"

I should be able to keep that up for about two or 3 rooms

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Original post by munkie
It has everything but a good name. I mean, seriously folks..

The MudPie Engine? . Could they at least think of something that sounds reasonably well?

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The GoatseCaek Engine?

One fellow wrote a music library for Allegro and called it DUMB. Bonus points: one of the structs is called a DUH ....

Chris Barry (crbarry at mts.net)
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while your at it, why don''t you tell them that Santa Clause isn''t real

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But Santa is real... This is not, though.

Look at the screenshots: It''s the exact same idea of Alone in the Dark with better graphics...

It looks okay, but I think it needs assault weaponry so that those of us who don''t enjoy solving inane puzzles can just go off and blast other players for points.

Resist everyone

It''s not pre-rendered. This has been discussed at length before. Read some of the interviews etc. regarding it. It''s fully real-time/ moving camera/ etc.