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Chaser Interview

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2003-08-19 00:00:00.0


Thanks to Ownt.com for sending word that they have shot-up an interview with Cauldron's Marian Suran regarding their first person shooter, Chaser. Here's a bit on the engine:

What type of features does the CloakNT game engine allow in Chaser?
The CloakNT engine was originally developed for dynamic per-pixel lighting and shadowing. However, today's hardware only allows a few dynamic lights within a scene, and, since we wanted to have rich lighting in Chaser, we decided to use static lighting. Dynamic lighting will be used only for dynamic light sources such as a flashlight. This engine also offers the ability to create very realistic materials, rather than just simple textures. It means that every surface has its own properties, such as specular intensity, gloss map, reflection map, bump map, etc. As a result, glass looks really like glass, metal looks metallic, and varnished wood looks cool as well.


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