[quake3] Elite Force Raytraced

[Thilo Schulz]

On Dienstag, 4. März 2008, Stephan Reiter wrote:
> I actually don't believe you, because you did a fabulous job with that
> patch. But on the other hand, not everybody is into raytracing. I wasn't
> until about two years ago, so ...

You can believe me - most of the changes did not have anything to do with the 
renderer at all. It was actually more a browsing through the code with the 
debugger and see how things work, how they had to be changed so it works with 
EliteForce.

> But I have to be honest: I don't think that raytracing will replace
> rasterization anytime soon. As long as rasterization can deliver the great
> illusions we see in recent AAA games, there's no need for accurate
> simulations of light transport. Faking reflections/refrections/etc. will be
> fine for the average gamer. It's an interesting field to do research in
> though. :-)

Yes, I'd like to do research on a similar problem: Auralisation, meaning: 
calculating impulse responses for sounds in rooms with some type geometry. I 
just need to get my lazy ass up and start leaning the stuff behind it.

> And indeed, EF is still fun to play! I used to work on a coop-mod for EF,
> but with the release of the single player source code it kinda lost its
> appeal. ;-)

Oh yes, I remember the coop mod. I was an active news admin at 
www.hazardteam.de back then and covered that story frequently.

-- 
Thilo Schulz
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