InfinituS on 26/1/2013 at 21:10
Isn't that Dromed when the game is loaded? Nice find by the way :)
Azaran on 26/1/2013 at 21:55
The water texture and the explosion sounds are definitely from Thief, and yeah that's Dromed alright
muncadunc on 27/1/2013 at 00:48
Funny, some of the crates in that video don't look like they're from a fantasy game- they look more like early SS2 assets.
jtr7 on 27/1/2013 at 02:13
Were the devs using that recognizable and proprietary editor at any stage while they were developing
Better Red Than Undead before they switched to
Dark Camelot? DromEd's only one iteration of the editor, as is ShockEd, so there may have been a RedEd or UndEd, heh. Sean Barrett left them in 1996, after contributing to the editor and making his Portal Renderer, and was kept in the loop as a consultant over the next few years. We can see the Quake connection in that video pretty clearly.
Aside from the extensive map construction suggesting otherwise, it could just be a demo map for the tools, given that the video is mainly a demo of the water effect, and then of the way that engine handles sound, before propagation and occlusion were added, and the way the camera is moved through the map, and how some of the map is constructed, I was reminded of the German Looking Glass Technologies promo video, with the untextured/under-textured fly-through of the Bonehoard while discussing DromEd and the Dark Engine.
The name given to the AI on screen "Haustl" could be related to:
(
http://enc.tfode.com/Haustl)
Quote:
Haustlöng (Old Norse "autumn-long") is a skaldic poem composed around the beginning of the 10th century.[1] The poem is preserved in the 13th century Prose Edda, which quotes two groups of stanzas from it, and is attributed to the Norwegian skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir. The poem describes mythological scenes painted on a shield given to the poet. In the stanzas that have come down to us two such scenes are described:
[INDENT]The theft and rescue of Iðunn.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]Thor's slaying of Hrungnir.[/INDENT]
Haustlöng is often compared with Húsdrápa and Ragnarsdrápa which also describe artworks depicting mythological scenes.
Shadowcat on 27/1/2013 at 03:02
Quote Posted by jtr7
DromEd's only one iteration of the editor, as is ShockEd, so there may have been a RedEd or UndEd, heh.
FWIW, the desktop shortcut in this video is also named "DromED".
jtr7 on 27/1/2013 at 03:55
So again, aside from the extensive map build, it's looking like a demo, and which came first, the editor that came to be called DromEd, or Better Red Than Undead?
R Soul on 28/1/2013 at 01:22
I think the first editor they worked on was called UseYourEd.
