"baking normalmaps & stress-test release soon" news - Shadowing Hate Mod for Quake 4

Just thought I'd post that I'm currently in the process of baking some extremely high-res normalmaps for what are otherwise the finished new character models.  This means it's only a matter of time until all is baked to be composited into final normalmaps for - a release!  It's only a small "stress-test" release that will show the difference between the low-detail and high-detail releases of the project as a whole.  The high-detail release will feature character models almost 9000 triangles and 4 megatexels, to give you an idea of how far things will get pushed in the high-end release.  Surely, the low-detail release will function on any machine that can already play Quake 4 sufficiently, so no one misses out.  The stress-test release will feature 2 scenes, one of the character models in convalescent stasis chambers (AECE HQ), and another of our water textures in action in a small sewer scene.  Each will have 2 versions, as mentioned, both will stress all factors including model polycount, texel scales, detail-mapping, cubemap reflections, shading decals, particle counts, special effects, tiny details and much more.  You can be sure to see this stuff here and on the main website sometime soon.