demagogue on 2/3/2011 at 19:44
You've been Bibi'd.
Somnus on 7/3/2011 at 16:33
Quote Posted by New Horizon
The primary goal is to get the source code to compile, fix some bugs, and get it to work with modern hardware. Updating it isn't even a glimmer on the horizon. Even if it was, you couldn't use the original art assets, they would all have to be recreated to work with all this modern eye candy. New textures + bump maps + specular, high poly models, real time shadows...and throwing those in would completely change the original gameplay, if the original maps would even work with all this new stuff...they were designed with static shadows in mind.
Updating the engine and expecting to plug the original maps in isn't as easy as it seems.
If indeed the engine were to get an overhaul, it would have to be a completely separate code branch and all new art / assets would have to be created. You would be looking at years of work.
Yeah, it does sound like way too much work when you put it that way. Would it still be possible to update things like lighting without having to change the game much? For instance adding HDR/Bloom--asking because I don't know very much about 3D programming.
Renzatic on 7/3/2011 at 17:15
Yup. Any type of post process effects and prebaked lighting techniques would fit in alongside the default Thief assets quite easily. People won't have to remake any textures or models until the source coders start incorporating realtime lighting and shadows into the engine.
sNeaksieGarrett on 13/3/2011 at 02:53
Hah, that's cool to be getting news converage, but they are a bit late.:p
demagogue on 13/3/2011 at 04:50
That said, the real news has to wait until something functional comes out of it anyway.
Albert on 13/3/2011 at 23:12
What's that link in the article? I tried typing it in, but maybe I'm misreading it? :confused:
Nameless Voice on 13/3/2011 at 23:14
It links to this thread.
Albert on 13/3/2011 at 23:18
Ah, I figured that, just a moment ago... :tsktsk:
But yeah, it is a standstill, is it not? The discussions have all been hush-hush since the legal-matters came into play. I'll just ask ... What is the real holdup, besides our real lives? Are we still hamstrung? What?! :devil:
Such events are dwarfed in complexity by practically everything else going on right now in the world. Why is it considered a dry topic, now?
