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| just wondering, if i wanted to sell a 3d game, how good would the graphics have to be? |
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| If the game is hardcore, you should give up right now, and forget about it forever: the hardcore crowd won't touch your game if it doesn't look as good as Quake3/UT2004. But if it's a casual title, then you can get away with a lot of polish but keeping it stylised or small (depending on game). Regardless, what kind of answer do you expect? It has to look as good as possible of course... |
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| In fact, you can get away with acceptable graphics if you have bloody good game logic/AI. So, if you are not too hot at the graphics stuff, offset it with clever stuff. However, '3D game' is a bit of a wide topic. |
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| i'm talking about the number of triangles for the humans and stuff like that. i'm pretty good at making textures for video games. would it be acceptable to release a game with human meshes that look as good as quake 2? |
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| only if it wasnt an FPS, is it? |
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| no. i'm making a tactical espionage action game. |
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| i'm pretty good at making textures for video games. would it be acceptable to release a game with human meshes that look as good as quake 2? Well, considering that Quake 2 got away with doing so, I would guess that would be a "yes" then? ;-) |
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| was Medal Of Honor done with the Quake2 engine... if so, i think that you might be able to squeeze it through the crack within the next couple of months... but you've gotta have a hook... by that i mean, something that'll be talked about... either those human meshes are gonna have to have some really smart ai... or they're gonna have to talk with their mouths moving and emote some sorta emotional expressions similar to HL3... yeah... i think you could get away with it... if the game is good enough... remember... Quake2 came out a while ago... ... but hey, i still fire up MOH every now and then... one of the best games ever imho. --Mike |
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| Wow if it was Red I'm impressed - or did you mean Quake 3 engine? MOH is a great looking - great playing game on the PC. IPete2. |
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| MOH is Q3 Engine. But if you want to see what a dedicated indie team can do with one programmer, one sound guy and one artist, all working online from different parts of the world: http://www.warworld.net/ Thats an indie game. Looks AAA... plays AAA. |
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| Perhaps the question we should be asking, Fish, is how long did it take them? Also if you read the news sections of their website you will find two of them are ex Nintendo game creators and one was in another game creation company. So they are hardly new to the scene. |
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| So? You wanted the bar, there it is. Don't keep lowering it. |
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| Game looking good and fully supported Fish's thoughts... |
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| whoa! man, i wonder how they pulled it off? |
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| yeah Q3 engine... thx nice link fish... --Mike |
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| just wondering, if i wanted to sell a 3d game, how good would the graphics have to be? The answer is: yes, you're going to have to hire an artist. |
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| that means, if, in fact, you ARE an artist, that should work... ín most cases you don't have the graphics to be technologically advanced but the art has to be good... |
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| lol @ Warren |
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