Images analyzed - Page 5

Rider · 07-23-2009, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by alex d

it's the MRT's which don't play well with MSAA in DirectX 9. Using DX10 and above, MRT's support full MSAA.

George Broussard mentioned at some point that DNF is a full Directx 9 game. Assuming that statement's still true and they haven't worked around it, the stripper pic is either a render or just manipulated and it isn't what it looks like ingame.

Angelo86 · 07-23-2009, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Telee

I could "analize" that image...

hahaha!

alex d · 07-23-2009, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Rider

George Broussard mentioned at some point that DNF is a full Directx 9 game. Assuming that statement's still true and they haven't worked around it, the stripper pic is either a render or just manipulated and it isn't what it looks like ingame.

Just because DX9 is the targetted graphics API does not mean it won't take advantage of some features of DX10. Infact many DX10 cards can force it on through the drivers. And, as I also said, there are other methods of achieving anti-aliased results in DX9-level GPUs without rellying on hardware MSAA.

I'm not disputing whether that image is a render or not, no doubt it is a render being that it was taken from the artist's portfolio, I was just correcting the assumption that the defered renderer means AA = pre-rendered. There's too much "I heard someone say he read that people say this can't happen because of that so it can't be ingame!" non-sense being spread on gaming forums these days.

Further more, game developers often do their best to make renders of their assets look as close to how they want them to look in game as they can. They're called target renders. What will be the difference between that stripper render and it being in game? Maybe slightly lower quality AA, maybe a bit of noticable polygon edges around the sillohette and that's about it. The textures will be the same resolution, common skin shaders give the same quality subsurface scattering as seen here, common hair shaders give the same caustic effect. That render is basically what it will look like in game, at worst it would just be with a slight quality drop. If it were a fully raytraced scene with full GI, billions of lights and incredibly complex geometry then well, yeah, that wouldn't be possible in game, but it's just a (most likely rasterised) render of a character going in the game, there's no part of it that can't be done ingame.

Gornemant · 07-23-2009, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Telee

I could "analize" that image...

Someone here has been watching too much donkey porn it seems...

WoodenSword · 07-23-2009, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Gornemant

Someone here has been watching too much donkey porn it seems...

Angelo has a more dirty mind!! He is more of an "oral" type guy!!!!

LOL!!!

Angelo86 · 07-24-2009, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by WoodenSword

Angelo has a more dirty mind!! He is more of an "oral" type guy!!!!

LOL!!!

hahaha!

Rider · 07-24-2009, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by alex d

I'm not disputing whether that image is a render or not, no doubt it is a render being that it was taken from the artist's portfolio, I was just correcting the assumption that the defered renderer means AA = pre-rendered. There's too much "I heard someone say he read that people say this can't happen because of that so it can't be ingame!" non-sense being spread on gaming forums these days.

I never said that because it has AA going on it must be a render. I said it was most likely not ingame assuming they hadn't worked around this issue.

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That render is basically what it will look like in game, at worst it would just be with a slight quality drop.

I disagree. Based on the XBLA D3D Screenshots. Those where intended as promotion for how the game looks. By this we can assume that they represent the quality for what they had in mind (target-renders as you say, but taken from the actual product). There is a pretty big difference between those "representational screenshots" and the stripper picture above.

I find it highly unlikely that they've been able to progress that much since those screenshots where actual, especially taken into account how far along the project is supposed to have been according to the leaked documents.

Jurarex · 07-24-2009, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by woodensword

angelo has a more dirty mind!! He is more of an "oral" type guy!!!!

Lol!!!

!lol!

marioman360 · 01-17-2010, 08:31 AM

The September screenshot of the strip club compared with the newest picture of the stripper.

Angelo86 · 01-17-2010, 09:33 AM

Yes. http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showpo...&postcount=151

MasterEvilAce · 01-20-2010, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Bad Sector

This is a linear calculation, however if we add crunch time in the equation where people work more hours at the end of a project so they will produce a bit more, we can assume that the game has reached if not 100% (completed) then at least something above at least 98%.

EDIT: i recalculated assuming the last three months they did a 55h/week cycle with the last 15 days a 75h/week cycle:

Code:

a=60.8/508
b=a*(55.0/40.0)
c=a*(75.0/40.0)
p=698*a + 75*b + 15*c

p is 99.24%

Ok, assuming your calculations are correct (since i based mine on yours) and getting the above with a little grain of salt, then they're extremely close to completion now. If not finished.

Sorry to bring this one back up, but I'm curious what other people think about this. If the game was ~90%+ completed, why would it require a couple million to finish it (~6months of work, I think was the estimate given somewhere)... George went to Take2 and asked for a few million, right?... Those are some huge operating costs, or they had a lot more of the game to finish and probably needed to hire a lot more people to get it done.

Onebullit · 01-20-2010, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by MasterEvilAce

Sorry to bring this one back up, but I'm curious what other people think about this. If the game was ~90%+ completed, why would it require a couple million to finish it (~6months of work, I think was the estimate given somewhere)... George went to Take2 and asked for a few million, right?... Those are some huge operating costs, or they had a lot more of the game to finish and probably needed to hire a lot more people to get it done.

Maybe Mr GB likes to play games !
He just knew that Take2 would sue them and he was well informed that 3DR would win the case (80%+ chance to winning) and get the MONEY anyway from them and for free.

MegaMustaine · 01-20-2010, 01:56 PM

They were about a year out, if you were to believe that April was the target date. Operating costs of paying their staff plus keeping the building up and running would easily be in the few million range.

JobivanHiob · 01-20-2010, 04:50 PM

an prob paying the bonuses when DNF was released!

prophecy holder · 01-21-2010, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Onebullit

Maybe Mr GB likes to play games !
He just knew that Take2 would sue them and he was well informed that 3DR would win the case (80%+ chance to winning) and get the MONEY anyway from them and for free.

Ahhhhh I remember the days where I was naive and innocent. I miss those days.

Sabarasa · 01-21-2010, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by JobivanHiob

an prob paying the bonuses when DNF was released!

But bonuses mainly come when profits are being made....which means they don't need cash beforehand, they could give the bonus by initial sales.

Kristian Joensen · 01-21-2010, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Rider

George Broussard mentioned at some point that DNF is a full Directx 9 game. Assuming that statement's still true and they haven't worked around it, the stripper pic is either a render or just manipulated and it isn't what it looks like ingame.

Some graphics programmer could correct me, but I am under the impression that adding a backend for a different or(in this case) newer API to the renderer isn't that big of a deal. AFAIK the code that deals directly with the rendering API is just a small portion of the renderer code(I believe for instance John Carmack has mentioned this).

There are plenty of games that support both DX9 and DX10 and some have even added it in a patch. Anything that represents a small enough amount of work to do in a patch could certainly be done during a games development. The quote about being a full DX9 game was in like 2004 or 2005.

The indie engine Unigine supports DX9, DX10, DX11 and OpenGL 3.2. If I am reading their online development logs correctly support for the latter two were added only some months apart(Although they supported earlier OpenGL version before that.).

Again I am of course willing to be corrected on this by graphics programmers. (I should note that we know that in a period from about Late 2006 until the team was let go in May 2009 they rewrote the animation system, added multi-threading support to the engine, significantly enhanced the AI system, added terrain support to the engine and ported the engine to Xbox 360, all this with two tech programmers(both of which(or at least one) worked on DN3D XBLA AFAIK) and one AI programmer).

Onebullit · 01-21-2010, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by prophecy holder

Ahhhhh I remember the days where I was naive and innocent. I miss those days.

Yes, me2
If he had the money to continue why did he quit.
Thats verry simple.
Your still naive and innocent !

dr.zaius · 02-27-2010, 02:29 PM

The main reason I'm upset this project will never get finished is now officially that we'll never see the other side of that piece of ass.

Duke's New Chainsaw · 02-27-2010, 05:20 PM

I'm pretty sure it's in one of the videos.

joey007 · 02-27-2010, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr Bear

I could "analize" that image......

I drool @ that.......

KaiserSoze · 02-27-2010, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by joey007

I drool @ that.......

The real thing is better!

MegaMustaine · 02-27-2010, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by KaiserSoze

The real thing is better!

No way. The real thing talks.

Duke's New Chainsaw · 02-27-2010, 11:52 PM

The real thing has been released.

GO BUY NOW!!!

joey007 · 02-28-2010, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by KaiserSoze

The real thing is better!

Woot! More drooling!!

---------- Post added at 10:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:16 PM ----------

Turn her around!!!! Lol

MegaMustaine · 03-01-2010, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Duke's New Chainsaw

The real thing has been released.

GO BUY NOW!!!

Illegal where I live.

DerricktheW · 03-01-2010, 12:37 AM

Think about it. They hard an internal target date of just over 2 months from now.

It most likely wouldn't have stuck... but DAMN. THINK OF HOW EVERY JOURNALIST SITE WOULD'VE HAD DUKE PREVIEWS ON THEIR MAIN PAGE RIGHT NOW.

=(

UglyNacho · 03-01-2010, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by DerricktheW

Think about it. They hard an internal target date of just over 2 months from now.

It most likely wouldn't have stuck... but DAMN. THINK OF HOW EVERY JOURNALIST SITE WOULD'VE HAD DUKE PREVIEWS ON THEIR MAIN PAGE RIGHT NOW.

=(

I iz crying face. :'(

marioman360 · 03-02-2010, 06:42 PM

Eh? Eh?

UglyNacho · 03-04-2010, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by marioman360

Eh? Eh?

Haha. That's awesome.

scubagear · 04-01-2010, 02:15 PM

Now I Know Y I

Duke. Duke's herritage? Duke was Turr...???!

http://www.aep-emu.de/PNphpBB2-file-...c-t-10526.html

Is its really true? Does every one confirm here that some stuff was
really "borrowed" or is this pure speculation? Did everbody heard from
this before?

I'am confused.

04-01-2010, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by scubagear

Now I Know Y I

Duke. Duke's herritage? Duke was Turr...???!

http://www.aep-emu.de/PNphpBB2-file-...c-t-10526.html

Is its really true? Does every one confirm here that some stuff was
really "borrowed" or is this pure speculation? Did everbody heard from
this before?

I'am confused.

OH MAN, TURRICAN! That takes me back.

I hope they make a new one one of these days.

Kalki · 04-01-2010, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by scubagear

Now I Know Y I

Duke. Duke's herritage? Duke was Turr...???!

http://www.aep-emu.de/PNphpBB2-file-...c-t-10526.html

Is its really true? Does every one confirm here that some stuff was
really "borrowed" or is this pure speculation? Did everbody heard from
this before?

I'am confused.

http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=26219

scubagear · 04-02-2010, 11:18 AM

Thank you, Kalki. The Duke game after DNF will borrow from Duke 3D or DN:MP again at least the john's one liners. And another secret: DNF runs already on good old C64 but the port to PC is taking so long...

Baff1 · 04-12-2010, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Angelo86

In this topic we analize the images

Do I have to stick anything up my bum?

Xgthug · 04-18-2010, 04:08 PM

Eh?

JobivanHiob · 04-18-2010, 04:12 PM

very half-lifeish

Angelo86 · 04-18-2010, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Xgthug

Eh?

Half-Life 2

Duke's New Chainsaw · 04-18-2010, 04:16 PM

It's a ******* egg. Like the protozoid slimers from Duke 3d.

They hatch those little crab things from the Jace Hall footage.

JobivanHiob · 04-18-2010, 04:21 PM

nasty stuff

---------- Post added at 10:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:20 PM ----------

hey DNC is there something you can tell me

01-17-2010, 08:31 AM	#169
marioman360	Re: Images analized The September screenshot of the strip club compared with the newest picture of the stripper. __________________ Please forgive the stupid username.

01-17-2010, 09:33 AM	#170
Angelo86	Re: Images analized Yes. http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showpo...&postcount=151 __________________ Jesus 4ever † Duke Nukem Facebook

01-20-2010, 01:56 PM	#173
MegaMustaine	Re: Images analized They were about a year out, if you were to believe that April was the target date. Operating costs of paying their staff plus keeping the building up and running would easily be in the few million range. __________________ This signature is a 77/100!

01-20-2010, 04:50 PM	#174
JobivanHiob	Re: Images analized an prob paying the bonuses when DNF was released! __________________ Stay up to date with http://dukewatch.blogspot.com for the UNEXPECTED and PREPARE YOURSELF for SHOCK and AWESOME on Penny Arcade EXPO from September 3-5! Onebullit: "If DNF comes out in 2010 i will buy 2 copies and send you one." pjVgt regading DNF at PAX:"I would seriously shit my pants and pre-order three copies - one will be sent to Jobi"

02-27-2010, 02:29 PM	#179
dr.zaius	Re: Images analized The main reason I'm upset this project will never get finished is now officially that we'll never see the other side of that piece of ass.

02-27-2010, 05:20 PM	#180
Duke's New Chainsaw	Re: Images analized I'm pretty sure it's in one of the videos. __________________ The Great Communicator!

02-27-2010, 11:52 PM	#184
Duke's New Chainsaw	Re: Images analized The real thing has been released. GO BUY NOW!!! __________________ The Great Communicator!

03-01-2010, 12:37 AM	#187
DerricktheW	Re: Images analized Think about it. They hard an internal target date of just over 2 months from now. It most likely wouldn't have stuck... but DAMN. THINK OF HOW EVERY JOURNALIST SITE WOULD'VE HAD DUKE PREVIEWS ON THEIR MAIN PAGE RIGHT NOW. =(

03-02-2010, 06:42 PM	#189
marioman360	Re: Images analized Eh? Eh? __________________ Please forgive the stupid username. Last edited by marioman360; 03-02-2010 at 06:58 PM.

04-01-2010, 02:15 PM	#191
scubagear	Re: Images analized Now I Know Y I Duke. Duke's herritage? Duke was Turr...???! http://www.aep-emu.de/PNphpBB2-file-...c-t-10526.html Is its really true? Does every one confirm here that some stuff was really "borrowed" or is this pure speculation? Did everbody heard from this before? I'am confused.

04-02-2010, 11:18 AM	#194
scubagear	Re: Images analized Thank you, Kalki. The Duke game after DNF will borrow from Duke 3D or DN:MP again at least the john's one liners. And another secret: DNF runs already on good old C64 but the port to PC is taking so long...

04-18-2010, 04:08 PM	#196
Xgthug	Re: Images analized Eh?

04-18-2010, 04:12 PM	#197
JobivanHiob	Re: Images analized very half-lifeish __________________ Stay up to date with http://dukewatch.blogspot.com for the UNEXPECTED and PREPARE YOURSELF for SHOCK and AWESOME on Penny Arcade EXPO from September 3-5! Onebullit: "If DNF comes out in 2010 i will buy 2 copies and send you one." pjVgt regading DNF at PAX:"I would seriously shit my pants and pre-order three copies - one will be sent to Jobi"

04-18-2010, 04:16 PM	#199
Duke's New Chainsaw	Re: Images analized It's a ******* egg. Like the protozoid slimers from Duke 3d. They hatch those little crab things from the Jace Hall footage. __________________ The Great Communicator!

04-18-2010, 04:21 PM	#200
JobivanHiob	Re: Images analized nasty stuff ---------- Post added at 10:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:20 PM ---------- hey DNC is there something you can tell me __________________ Stay up to date with http://dukewatch.blogspot.com for the UNEXPECTED and PREPARE YOURSELF for SHOCK and AWESOME on Penny Arcade EXPO from September 3-5! Onebullit: "If DNF comes out in 2010 i will buy 2 copies and send you one." pjVgt regading DNF at PAX:"I would seriously shit my pants and pre-order three copies - one will be sent to Jobi"