[quake3] Quake 3 Raytracing Patch

[Stephan Reiter]

You know, the fact that the source code for Daniel Pohl's project is still 
not available after all these years was one of the reasons why I considered 
donating my work to the ioquake3 project. I simply hope that some people 
pick it up and continue development because there's still so much to do, 
more than a single person can handle! I don't want my diploma thesis to just 
leave some screenshots and a long text behind. I want it to have a future 
and I want it to be useful for others, who might be interested in learning 
this stuff.

I was also working on a "level viewer" like Daniel Pohl (see 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F31kVvyx1Fw), but that can hardly be 
considered a game. It's more useful for benchmarking of raw ray tracing 
performance Now, ioquake3 on the other hand can be used to assess the 
quality of a raytracer when it comes to real world gaming environments.

Stephan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <monk at rq3.com>
To: <quake3 at icculus.org>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [quake3] Quake 3 Raytracing Patch


>>> And finally the lighting is of course very different and sometimes
>>> not what
>>> you would expect. Considering that quake3 was never meant to be
>>> raytraced
>>> this is understandable.
>>
>> Actually it has been done, with quite success:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpNZt3yDXno
>
> I had wondered about that.  However:
>
> http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/~sidapohl/egoshooter/
>
> No source for downloading.  And I don't think that's Quake 3.  It's just
> using Q3 assets.  Under "about":
>
> "The game engine was written from scratch..."
>
> They use http://www.openrt.de/ for their raytracing engine, I guess, and
> just load Q3 stuff.  Kinda like those Quake 1 projects that can load Q3 or
> Doom 3 assets.
>
> This is the first RT project I've seen that adds an additional renderer to
> an existing game engine and the first one that I've seen opensores.
> OpenRT sure as 'eck ain't opensores...
>
> So kudos, you RT renderer codin' guy!  Thanks!
>
> Monk.
>
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