Dawn of reality, real big city with 3D floors

[doomexpert]

Hi,

I'm waiting for a long time for a wad file that's been developed by one person.
He called himself ReinchardDoom.
here's the vid on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd2wR9zsa2U

It's a real existing realistic city map, anybody got news of the wad file in progress yet??
because i've got a project too with the same technique. a real existing big city wad with 3D houses but i've been working now for 1 year on it
so when dawn of realtiy -bytom in gzdoom is out then i can stole his textures also i can study his work to make my wad even better.

bye .

[Gez]

Here's all the data you can find about it:
http://www.doomworld.com/vb/threads/43171/
http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=17818
http://www.wadsinprogress.info/index.ph ... s&wad=1087

[Reinchard]

You can believe it or not, but I'm still working on this. I must finish many details.

[Enjay]

Ah, good to hear from you. I was worrying that this project had died.

[Reinchard]

I'm still working on it. The work is so difficult that I have to build a map based on a real town. This is a very big handicap. I can't create sectors where I want, but only where there is in real city. I will not published any news/screens/videos until I had finished the map. Thanks to all who still waiting for this.

[doomexpert]

ah, Great! good to hear from you, i know it.. it's take's a hell of a time to build a real place rather then if you just build something:) but step for step. i dont want to think at the whole project,
that's too much.. can't wait when it comes out. keep it up

ohjeah got you rid of the lag problem? the newer versions of gzdoom solved that issue...

[dark-slayer-201]

This is really good, although most of the 3d models can be replaced with midtex or walls.
Such as the outside windows of the buildings and the stoves.

[Reinchard]

Its released some time ago. Check this:
http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=17818

[doomexpert]

wow it is already out! i didn't knew that, and i was waiting the whole time when it releases some day, damn it.
thanks, i gonna play and study it.

[doomexpert]

Its released some time ago. Check this:
http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=17818

Do you have also a copy of normal textures of dor?
outside there is very annoying lag. i have a good reg, ati radeon 4870x2, intelcore 2 quad q9650 processor.

[Reinchard]

So you must have good framerate with this, probably you just don't read the instructions in txt file. Use precache gl textures "on" and don't use high quality resize mode.

[doomexpert]

So you must have good framerate with this, probably you just don't read the instructions in txt file. Use precache gl textures "on" and don't use high quality resize mode.

i've read the instructions and it's all correct. precache gl tectures is on but where is it saved on hdd? i've looked also for another issues about the texture format and the texture filter mode but non of that reduce the lag.
the best config is texture format rgba8 and texture filter mode trilinear.

it's playable 24 frames at lowest and spaces where i'v got around in the 40 frames and normal spaces at 60 frames but overall is around 35 i think in spaces where he needs to render alot of walls. also when i am in area's where the leg is around 34-45 frames horizontaly then if i look down verticaly or in the center of the sky all the way up then the frames drops instant to 24 frames but when im in area's that offers 60 fps then if i look all the way up or down to the ground then it stays 60 frames per second (59 exactly)
also when using gzdoom 1.5.6 i have 1 frame rate less performans when using a better gzdoom svn build of r1120 i have 1 frame more. and r1124 give another half second frame rate more often when looking to the ground.

i've upload some benchmark, maybe they can do something about that rendering problem...

[doomexpert]

here is my benchmark of my project when i look at the ground to render all of the walls together. with no (Hi-res textures)
I'm sitting on the edge of the transition that the benchmark's of total wall rendering can reduce my frame rate but i hope that it will never happen.

[Reinchard]

I'm don't expert in this all technically things. On my comp I have max fps in some part of map, 60-80 in others and in "critical" large open areas 40-50 fps. So is most playable. I have Intel E8400 3,0 GHz and Nvidia GTX 285, 2Gb. But I have feedback from peopels with little worse hardware and in many cases he said is most playable. For example is full playable on Intel 1,8 GHz, Nvidia 9600, 2 Gb.

I'm check your benchmark. You right, some areas have very large number of linedefs to render, but there's nothing I can do with it - map is based on real locations, so I can't put one-sided blocking lines in every place. Thats main problem of this kind of projects. Theres few non-existing buildings with one-sided lines, so I think I do everything what I can.

[Graf Zahl]

For example is full playable on Intel 1,8 GHz, Nvidia 9600, 2 Gb.

I doubt that. I use a GF 8600 GT which is the same speed and a Core Quad CPU with 2.4 GHz and this map is not really playable on this system - and it's a lot better than the one you list.

Also, don't forget that AMD's GL drivers are a lot less efficient than NVidia's so those users will also experience problems.