[Ghostavo]

Originally posted by Deepblue
Does Doom 3 use the same physics engine as both H2 and HL2?

No...

[Turnsky]

Doom3's physics engine is in house, HL2 uses Havok 2.0, Halo2 also uses a version of the havok physics engine, so does Max Payne 2, i might add.

[Deepblue]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon


Doesn't matter. It doesn't have the grav gun.

Halo 2 CE has a grav gun. Used for jumping really high or knocking things around.

[Deepblue]

How the hell did that happen?

[Ransom]

D3's unrealistic look is due to the actual textures and weirdness with all the overdone bumpmapping and things, not the engine. A friend of mine got HL2 textures and stuff and made a map in D3 with them, and it looked almost identical to HL2 except with dynamic shadows.

Also, the D3 expansion has a gravity gun in. Looks like HL2's gimmick has become an epidemic.

[Janos]

HERE IS A SCREENSHOT OF DOOM3:













lol dark

[Ransom]

*sigh*

The darkness of Doom 3 is there because it's kinda a horror game. It's supposed to be dark. Anyone who's actually tried to make a map for it would know there's an ambient light you can make which does not cast shadows. Make a big one and you don't have any hard black shadows anymore.

Edit: http://www.gamingforums.org/forum/files/hl2d35.jpg

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Ransom Arceihn
*sigh*

The darkness of Doom 3 is there because it's kinda a horror game. It's supposed to be dark. Anyone who's actually tried to make a map for it would know there's an ambient light you can make which does not cast shadows. Make a big one and you don't have any hard black shadows anymore.

dude, the beginning of the game, is dark, it's not very well lit at all.

that said,  the specular mapping makes some parts of the game look...plastic.

[Ransom]

Originally posted by Turnsky


dude, the beginning of the game, is dark, it's not very well lit at all.

that said,  the specular mapping makes some parts of the game look...plastic.

I'm aware of that. I'm pointing out that that's simply the fault of the map designers - the engine's perfectly capable of brightly lit environments, but being a horror game there was no call for them. And yeah, the textures look plasticky, but again, that's a problem with the textures themselves, and nothing at all to do with the engine.

[aldo_14]

We evaluate games based on the game itself, not the potential of the technology behind it.

[Ransom]

Well yeah. Doom 3 sucks. I'm just pointing out that its engine is just as capable of realistic stuff as Source.

[Turnsky]

actually, doom3 's spec maps need work.. badly.. i know that d3 is capable of well lit enviroments..  but source's scalbility, and ability to run well on pratically any PC hardware config, makes it a winner

[Anaz]

Originally posted by Turnsky
actually, doom3 's spec maps need work.. badly.. i know that d3 is capable of well lit enviroments..  but source's scalbility, and ability to run well on pratically any PC hardware config, makes it a winner

and then there's steam

[Stryke 9]

[Liberator]

Originally posted by Anaz


and then there's steam

Which I'm afraid isn't dying...

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Anaz


and then there's steam

well, i said the engine holds great promise, not the mental giant who thought up steam.

[Liberator]

When  you put it that way, yeah, the engine in awesome.  Steam is why I won't ever play HL2, I'm not even going to DL the demo.

[aldo_14]

[Deepblue]