Just like years ago, when id showed their Doom 3 engine at a Mac conference, this year's Apple WWDC (world wide developer conference) was no different! John Carmack was on stage announcing their top-secret new engine, called id Tech 5, complete with a video and all! The engine will be used for a new IP, which they're keeping secret until the Mini-e3 next month. Here's the story from Joystiq, go there for the fuzzy pictures:
Carmack introduced the technology, saying, "So the last couple of years at id we've been working in secrecy on next-gen tech and a game for it ... this is the first time we're showing anything we've done on it publicly." He describes the demo happening on screen: "What we've got here is the entire world with unique textures, 20GB of textures covering this track. They can go in and look at the world and, say, change the color of the mountaintop, or carve their name into the rock. They can change as much as they want on surfaces with no impact on the game."
Carmack finished off the tease saying, "We're going to be showing on a Mac, PC, PS3, and Xbox at E3, we'll have another Mac announcement at E3."
"id announces id Tech 5!!!"
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"20GB of textures covering this track"
BLURAY FTW!
damn that's a lot of textures.
good luck with your night-rotation (dunno whats its called exactly, but still, good luck!)
10:19 pm
nope, not bluray
nor hd
he uses procedural tricks to compress 20gig to something as stupid as 8 mbyte! YES. 8mb!
this technology (called megatexture) is being used in the up-coming Quake Wars:Enemy Territories
So no sony FANBOI, it ain't bluray :p!
6:06 pm
?????!!!!
Megatextures -> VERY HAWT!
lemme read up on that!
howz it done? just freaking HOW??
lemme see..
and what's with the SONY buttons thingy? you know i'm not patient, at ALL! come on come on tell tell!
10:45 pm
I said "coming soon"........ :p
I'll post today
8:10 am