Your Key to the Source Engine Thread

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Read that file to get indepth info on how the Source Engine works and how complex it really is.

Here is more info if you need it. Tjs.5u.com

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Wow, this is great! Thanks a lot, Uber. This'll really come in handy!

This will also help those who want indepth info on how everything works. Maybe proves usefull with the SDK?

whoa, nice job uber

That's what I meant. It gives us a good idea of what to expect

woah my head hurts now

Well, you didn't have to read it

yea but I did...

Thats pretty neat

NO ITS NOT ITS HEADHURTINGZ0RZ!!!

nice definition of shading there... not that difficult to follow if you know this stuff a bit

lol well I obviously dont... I got down to where there were equations and stuff and waslike... wait wtf was I just reading??

hehe... if you had university courses about 3d computer graphics those equations are familiar to you... the nice thing on those shader thingies is just that you can mostly to ray-tracing like calculations (meaning point-by-point basis) and this makes it much simpler to follow... ^_^

oh now I know exactly what you mean.... thanks.... lol

Well, he's not going to teach you an entire college course in order to understand the sheets.

Uber, my coder, Konst, thanks you very much for these links, as he knows that they will come in handy on determining the limits for our mod

i guess the limits in this case are less by the engine and more by the graphic card used as this shader thingy mostly is carried out on the GPU alone.

Basically it shows that HL2 is better than FarCry and Doom 3 techincally. In other words it looks better in the end.

nah... doom3 for sure uses a similar shader technic... i don't think they both take away each other much. with FC i don't know but i guess it's not far behind neither.

All Doom 3 had going for it technically was bump-mapping. lol

Half-Life 2 is so much better

nope. look at the glass effects and the steam effects. they are the same technically as the source water and glass effects. also doom3 has different kind of texture-maps to produce advanced lighitng effects same as hl2. they don't really differ much in the basics.

honestly, all that didnt sound impressive at all.. And one thing that stood out to me is it mentioned vertex model lighting.. Isn't vertex lighting... older? And i mean.. none of that showed source as bein better then doom 3 IMO.. Like the source licensing paper.. Those features aren't all that special.. I think doom 3 still takes it.

par... none better as both use a similar technique.

I guess Doom 3 can do some great stuff.
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Where does it say Untitled?