doom

August 7, 2004 under Computers, Software

All I can say about Doom 3 is “wow”! I’ve only played the first two missions (at night in the dark with the sound up, of course) and I’m quite impressed with what I’ve seen. It’s far scarier that the first two in the series, mostly due to the technology difference. I still caught my self trying to peer around corners, thinking that my monitor will allow me to do that 🙂 John Carmack and his team at id have done a mighty fine job. The work that John has done on the engine with regards to the shadows and lighting is especially kewl. Off the top of my head, I can’t even fathom the math he came up with for bending light and shadows around corners and though tunnels. Crazy. Stay tuned.

Oh, and I finally got my notebook at work. It’s a shiney new Inspiron 5150 from Dell. It makes my previous work computer look extremely pathetic. Now I don’t need to walk away when I’m compiling 5000+ lines of C++ code 🙂 I picked up a WiFi access point, plugged that baby into my router and now I’m wireless at home with a second computer. Maybe my next blog entry will be from the bathroom 😉

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