Very simple, Black Wolf. Some of us don't follow Doom 3 at *all*.

Thanks for the info, Lars. And I'm sure at least a few people will want this.

About Doom3
I have played for the technical aspect ^_^
Standing at different points of the first level w/o any enemys an was looking at the level in differen detail grades to see how they had worked.

About the Info
Well just got some parts of it in the last lesson so I thought "man that would be great to have...special that I now know how to do it"...and some people who can do it that I could ask ^_^

Man I allways forget to login....

I'm pretty sure Doom 3 doesn't use displacement maps, only bump and normal maps.

Well its not that importend if D3 used it or not...just get the codec into FS2 ^_^

*watches FPS drop... severely*

Well if implemented in the right way it shouldn't make a big differance

It's to do with the way the textures are handled at the moment. Bobb does want to revamp the code, because theres not much more he can to with it the way it works at the moment. It wasn't really designed for multi-layer textures etc.

Was that even used at the time the code was originally designed ('97-'99, depending on how changed it was from the FS1 code...)

Normal maps need to be built from hi-poly models in order to be efficient. So in fact, someone would have to do uber poly (--> 100k) versions of the V models, and then take the normal maps from there.

Bumpmaps and displacement maps are something entirely different.

Normal-maps
Well their are some good guys in the community who are good enough to build 100k models I think.

Bump/Displacement-maps
These textures can be made from textures you allready got so it wouldn't be a gib problem for texturers to make them.
Basicly its just the normal texture in B/W to tell the program hights and lower parts.

So my request would be if someone could work out a support for Bumpmaps at least.