Realme mod for Doom III

I like willy hallmes Testmap2 for Tenebrae with similar look. I think Doom3 will be cool because the new lighting system is perfect for dramatic games. Maybe not for deathmach, but for singleplayer terror will be amazing.

ok the forums for the website are up, check the website for the news and link to get there.

Go doom3... this mod is going to rock just because of what doom3 can do, which is applicable to so many game styles other than arcade shooters... I wouldn't be surprised if it overthrew half-life! But then there's them system requirements...

i assume u got all that pretty detailed info from the alpha eh? ;)
anyways thanx but some of it i allready knew, and others i was to find out.

this weekend me and a teammate are gonna start working on the menu(well make it in Team Arena and convert it to doom iii later)

Sorry the models are not in MB, but in ASCII format, too.

1. Doom3 uses a modefied q3 map format... without compiling it.
2. The used level editor is still qeradient, but now it's included in the doom3.exe
3. ID uses a combination of qeradient/lightwave/maya:
a) qeradient for levels (data is stored in these files, which are all ascii format:
map for brushes similar to q1/2/3
aas32 for bot data
cm for collision data
proc for scripted events)
b) lightwave for details and objects (exported to 3dstudio ascii format)
c) maya for models and animation (the md5 files include information on bones and animation in ascii format, but the models are imayabinary format)

Other infos:

The good ol' CFG format with console commands is still in place

TGAs are Envmaps, fonts (along with dat for letter positioning), cubemaps for soft lights, skins. level textures

Textures are still being made as TGAs and then converted to D3T, the doom3 texture format
Textures are: heightmaps, normal maps, sprites(/decals), ui elements.

Scripting is done QC style with a definition and possible scipts and/or stat files for every object group (weapons/enemies...)

effects are done using fx files which look similar to shaders

particle effects use simple .particle files which define sprite, number, speed, weight, direction and so on

sound use wavs wich are defined via .sndshd sound shader

menues use simple .gui scripts which include background, buttons and that's about it

video is binary and still in roq format

demo format is binary, so don't mess with it until id is giving out tools

That should be enough information to get you started

well I've uploaded the realmetest on the website, its a solid 14mb. If your going to download it, read the howto start aswell because the mp3 should be converted with a provided program to a wav file in order for q3 to use it.

I'm not satisfied about the terrain in the map thus I will try harder to learn the terrain plugins and make a second test with a huge terrain.

I've been working hard on a map for quake 3 to test some styles etc, i've posted 5 screenshots in the screenshot section over at the website:

Xs4all.nl

when u go watch the E3 legacy movie u can see Tim Willits working on a doom 3 map and the program which he uses looks very, VERY similar to radiant, eg the row of buttons on top etc. later on in the movie when robert duffy starts talking you can see someone else from ID working on a map again with a program very similar to radiant, the row of buttons on top etc the 2d views, the way the lights are visible in 2d views the texture view etc so it highly unlikely that they use lightwave for the maps.

I know I start the mod very early however what u must know is that the idea for this kinda mod/game has been in my head for about 3-5 years now. the quake/quake II engines wouldn't be able to create the world that I wanted. I had good hopes for the Q3 engine but again the engine just wasn't suited. when I researched some things about the doom iii engine, watched the doom iii movies over and over again i knew that this engine would do the trick and thats why I allready started the mod so soon.

I thought doom3 stuff was all made in lightwave, apparently carmack and his crew have made doomIII tools that tie in with existing packages very good... Which is a god send because working with quake3 can get very ugly. I.e. i heard that maps were made in lightwave and then exported straight into the game...

I always find it very weird that people start "modding" an engine before it comes out. I mean one or two months i can understand, you can do all the planning and concept work. But to request help of coders and stuff, what are they going to do when they don't have access to the engine?

Aside from that, it sounds like a cool mod and i'm sure you will hit the ground running when the game comes out (apparently everything needed to mod the game comes packaged with the game)

Anyways goodluck.