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The Future of Duke Nukem 3D Graphics

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by Yatta, on Thu Apr 02 2009, 07:47PM

Plagman, the same dude that's awesome enough to lend us a file mirror for use with Duke4.org, has authored a new renderer for EDuke32. His modern OpenGL graphics engine will be available to the public soon, and will feature the following:

Static and dynamic lights with a fully per-pixel lighting model
Advanced parallax mapping
Dynamic shadows
Real-time reflections with per-pixel perturbation
Hardware skinning for models

The renderer is not based on Polymost, and the minimum hardware requirement is a card which supports shader model 3; Polymost will still be available for systems which can't run the new renderer adequately. The source for this news item is reachable at this link. Click below for more screenshots:

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Battousai \| 02 Apr : 21:28 The Future of Duke Nukem 3D Graphics
Reply to this	Duke 3D is going too be looking better than DNF by the time it FINALLY comes out,

zwieback \| 03 Apr : 05:46 The Future of Duke Nukem 3D Graphics
Reply to this	THIS LOOKS SUPERKICKASSAWESOME!!!

L2theKING \| 03 Apr : 08:04 The Future of Duke Nukem 3D Graphics
Reply to this	Good job Plagman! EDuke32 will look way much better like this!

Merge \| 04 Apr : 09:17 The Future of Duke Nukem 3D Graphics
Reply to this	Groovy!

zwieback \| 04 Apr : 13:04 The Future of Duke Nukem 3D Graphics
Reply to this	hehehehe did you read the forum thread.. soooo much people thought that this is fake

Damien_Azreal \| 04 Apr : 15:07 The Future of Duke Nukem 3D Graphics
Reply to this	Well, posted in April 1st... it made sense to be a little hesitant about it at first. But yes, it looks awesome. Can't wait for them to release it.

oak man \| 05 Apr : 09:38 Re: The Future of Duke Nukem 3D Graphics
Reply to this	Nah way! I'm not fallin' for this one!

phreakindee \| 05 Apr : 20:27 The Future of Duke Nukem 3D Graphics
Reply to this	Saw this what seems like years ago, floated around the internet for a while... it was declared fake back then, and just a render. I do hope it's released though. [ edited 05 Apr : 20:36 ]

Yatta \| 05 Apr : 21:31 The Future of Duke Nukem 3D Graphics
Reply to this	The render you're referring to was different. This is real.

zwieback \| 06 Apr : 02:45 The Future of Duke Nukem 3D Graphics
Reply to this	the fun thing is, that the fake "screenshot" looks very similar to the new renderer can't wait can't wait can't wait

parkar | 06 Apr : 10:11

The Future of Duke Nukem 3D Graphics

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Unless my memory fails me (and that wouldn't be the first time) when I made the original shot (the fake one) was about the same time Plagman started on Polymer. I had no idea about it until after I posted the shot though.

In all regards except the advanced lighting and sectors replaced by meshes Polymer is actually capable of more then my faked shot showed. There is no parallax or normal mapping in my fake shot.

And both in the fake and the new real shot there are no normal mapped models so in that regard it's still not quiet as good looking as it could be. the Polymer shot also lacks or post processing effects which is not yet implemented but fully possible and planned.

The number of light sources and level of AA is a little bit overkill though. No one will be able to play the game looking quiet like those shots when Polymer is released.

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