For testing purposes, compile a map without shadow volumes and see how AI reacts to it. proc file, which contains precompiled shadow volumes. I don't know who LightGem works exactly, but I assume it works based on information in.

I'm hopeful openmp could still offer us something. How do we move beyond the hypothetical though? Is there some way for us to get a ballpark number of the optimizations that may benefit TDM and whether or not we could integrate them with relative ease? So yes, I too would love for TDM to be able to take full advantage of all that my CPU has to offer. I don't think anyone would take issue with those types of changes, but what was initially being said felt a bit vague so I wasn't sure what people meant. The potential reward is larger views and better performance. Further, New Dark continues to gain steam as it has taken steps to modernize.

As more games come out which take better use of GPU or multi core TDM's limitations will grow less and less appealing to mappers. The risk of not continuing development is that we are already at a point where CPU single threaded performance is stagnant. If any of this outside work is deemed beneficial, then it could be merged back into the real TDM project. There would be no onus whatsoever on existing team members to implement these changes because we would instead see them in the wild by outside contributors on github. Such changes could potentially be risky but that is the price you pay for improvements. There are tons of things that could be done to optimize Id Tech 4 that would not break maps. If the existing engine can make use of some updates and optimizations from other strains of idtech4 without breaking everything, that is definitely the most logical way to go.Īlright, to clarify. I have no doubt that a major shift to an engine like BFG would kill any and all remaining motivation in the key members of the team. Switching to another engine is a serious investment, not only in coding hours but also in fixing maps and testing the hell out of everything. The problem with that is that you never really get anywhere.Duke Nukem forever is the commercial equivalent of that. People would drop in all the time over the years and say, 'hey, you should port this to Unreal.idtech4 sucks.or port it over to the half life 2 engine'.this is no different. I don't think it's antagonism about structural 's simply being practical.

Minimal coding crew the modus operandi is 'don't upset the apple cart' which is understandable but sort of a shame. We'd probably 'care more' if there weren't so much antagonism around big structural changes.

Doom 3 or bfg