Reno\'s Project Revealed.

[Reno]

Well, EK caught me a wee bit off gaurd here(posted this while i was sleeping haha)

Firstly, concerning why this whole thing is so revolutionary: as Joe and a few others had posted, because of the interactiveness, it\'s possible to see people coming, destroy it, etc, etc.
If you where a sniper hiding in the tall grass, you\'d be far harder to spot than if you where sitting in a clear area. And because it interacts, if you had a guy sneaking around crouched/prone in the grass, and you look over and see it moving, lay a couple shots into it, or throw a nade.

as for performance, there is actually very very very very little performance hit because of the way every is handled. iG uses 3 LOD\'s at all times(which, like everything else, is generated at run-time), and the blade creation and interaction algos are very short and sweet, meaning less time to deal with it, but just as effective regardless. The general design this whole thing is based off of was capable of being run in realtime(30fps) on a 500mhz machine. Performance really wont be a concern
And no, this is not a option that can be toggled off. that would be an unfair advantage to people who want a cheap advantage.

and shift, while i agree that at a glance, it sounds liek we\'re just shoving everything at next gen hardware, we\'re actually designing pretty much everything to be fast enough to scale to a resonable area reqs wise.
TSE\'s current min reqs(which is about where we intend to maintain TTR\'s):

Quote:Pentium 1 GHz
256 MB RAM
DirectX 9 Compatible 3D Graphics Accelerator - WITH LATEST GRAPHICS DRIVERS

(note, TSE is currently windows only, but *WILL* be crossplatform when it\'s development gets closer to the end, so done worry mac/linux boys )

In closing, iG opens alot of possibilities ingame, while also being designed to run on low end systems.
and if *anyone* feels underwhelmed, i still have a few projects in the work on top of this, so just wait, there\'s quite a bit more to come

-Reno out