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ATI had done some research on various methods of normal map compression, and we ended up swapping the red and alpha ( which is zero in the case of a normal map ) channels. ATI does not support the palettized compression, so we needed a better solution. Unfortunately, this compression does a poor job in other cases and you end up getting splotchy areas. NVIDIA hardware supports palettized compression, which yields good compression, and normal maps retain hard and round edges really well. Nvidia cards: 'One thing of note on the normal map compression is that, generally speaking, if you DXT a normal map you get really crappy results. This fits us onto a 64MB video card.'ДЄTI vs. Low quality does everything medium quality does, but it also downsizes textures over 512x512 and we downsize specular maps to 64ењ†4 in this mode as well. This level gets us comfortably onto 128MB video cards. This still looks really, really good, but compressing the normal maps can produce a few artifacts, especially on hard-angled or round edges. Medium quality uses compression for specular, diffuse, and normal maps. This looks very, very close to Ultra quality, but the compression does cause some loss. High quality uses compression (DXT1,3,5) for specular and diffuse and no compression for normal maps. In a typical DOOM 3 level, this can hover around a whopping 500MB of texture data.due to the hitching that can occur, we chose to require a 512MB video card before setting automatically.

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In Ultra quality, we load each texture diffuse, specular, normal map, at full resolution with no compression.

To put things in perspective, most production levels in DOOM 3 contain more media assets than all of Quake 3: Arena.Image fidelity is dependent on what quality level we load the textures at.

plan file, Robert Duffy, one of the primary programmers at id, addresses a variety of Doom 3 related subjects, including: Quality settings: 'I've seen quite a few posts in the forums about 'Ultra' quality and why we don't set this by default out of the box. Creative and id said that the 3D graphics and audio technology won't become available to developers until later this year. Ironically, the Doom 3 engine's new audio technology won't be immediately available in its namesake game. That means game developers licencing the engine for their own games will receive top-of-the-line 3D graphics and sound in the same package.

The creator of the popular Sound Blaster line of PC sound cards will integrate its proprietary 3D audio technology, called EAX Advanced HD, into id's graphics powerhouse.

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Id Software announced that it has partnered with multimedia hardware manufacturer Creative Technology to further develop the audio portions of the Doom 3 engine. The marketing buzz surrounding Doom 3 has gone into overdrive, which is pretty much to be expected if you're releasing a game that many gamers have been waiting for the better part of four years or more to actually play.

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Doom 3 hype reaches epic proportions, Skaife prepares to race online, and the patch that never was.