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Quake 4 Renders and Concept Art 58

Posted by CowboyNeal from the eye-candy-from-the-future dept.
p0z3r writes "Following a recent story about Endorphin (from a previous Slashdot post), I came across the newly released Quake 4 renders. Hope you like them!" They're still lacking in the color department, but man oh man are they full of detail. I'm betting Quake 4 requires me to upgrade my hardware again, but I'm inclined to say it's worth it for graphics like these. Update: 07/19 17:54 GMT by S : It seems the images have now been removed from the Quake3World site.
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  • Hehehe, did you read that forum? (Score:3, Funny)

    by BrookHarty ( 9119 ) on Saturday July 19, 2003 @11:34AM (#6478375) Journal
    Edit: Oh yeah a realistic gib system would be awesome, at least for lan play. I know it would require a lot of internet power, but just think where we'll be in 2006, I bet everyone has at least 5MBps.

    Ya, just 15 months and they will upgrade my dsl to 5MBps, the RIAA would love that. After the RIAA gets done sueing the entire USA, nobody will be able to play quake4, doing 5-10 years in federal prison, and the 250,000 dollar fine. God bless corporate America, prisoner #1295736325.

  • A clever ploy to get into space (Score:5, Funny)

    by wowbagger ( 69688 ) * on Saturday July 19, 2003 @11:35AM (#6478383) Homepage Journal
    This is a very clever ploy on Carmack's part to get into space:

    1) Design games that force players to buy new hardware.
    2) Collect kickbacks from nVidia, ATI, Intel, AMD.
    3) Profit!
    4) Build spacecraft with profit.
    5) Go into space.
    6) Profit!

  • "GREAT GOOOGLYMOOGLY"

    • Who here dosen't love Weird Al?

      *Hums "Genius in france... I'm-a genius in france..."*

      Seriously--Quake4 is gonna be like Quake3. I mean, why would they release two single-player games, so close to eachother? Specially when D3 is gonna 0wnz j00--and just about everything else.

      'cept HL2.

  • Looking at the pics... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by travail_jgd ( 80602 ) on Saturday July 19, 2003 @12:05PM (#6478554)
    One thing to remember is that the models used for the current renders may not be what's released in the game. They may be using million polygon models, and cut it back to a "more reasonable" ten thousand for actual gameplay.

    Looking at the concept art, a few ideas for Q4 can be found in the notes. Apparently humans are going to be used as power cells (one [freeserve.co.uk] and two [freeserve.co.uk]). Humans may be upgraded [freeserve.co.uk] into Strogg troops, power cells, or other pieces of Strogg technology [freeserve.co.uk]. Then again, things could very well change by the time the game is released.

    I'm starting to wonder if Q4 is going to be a "retelling" of Q2, rather than a sequel.
    • "One thing to remember is that the models used for the current renders may not be what's released in the game. They may be using million polygon models, and cut it back to a "more reasonable" ten thousand for actual gameplay.
      "

      The amount of detail is moot with the models we see now. When the models are converted over to the Doom 3 engine format, the level of detail is maintained in the form of height maps. In the first E3 movie one of the artists mentions it specificly calling it the "John Carmack Magic". Y
    • Straying a bit off of the main topic, does anyone happen to know if the concept art for a game is sold once production is ended? These would make for rather nice dorm adornments...
    • None of those links were valid.

  • In game models? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by WuWarrior ( 628294 )
    Are these actual models going to be used in the game? They look more like something that would be used in a cut scene or intro. If it's going to be used in the game, then that's VERY nice!

    • Re:In game models? (Score:5, Informative)

      by egomaniac ( 105476 ) on Saturday July 19, 2003 @01:35PM (#6479093) Homepage
      These are the extremely high-polygon count models from which the final models + bump maps will be computed. The in-game models will have far fewer polygons, but automatically-computed bump maps that simulate the higher-count renders.

      Take a look at Polybump [polybump.com] for an example of this technology.
    • "Are these actual models going to be used in the game? They look more like something that would be used in a cut scene or intro. If it's going to be used in the game, then that's VERY nice!"

      Well, they took the grabs down berfore I could see them so I can't really comment. I bet that the game will look pretty darn close. If they're not using the Polybump technique mentioned by another poster, then at the very least they can 'bake' deatails into the texture maps. You can do lotsa stuff with textures when

  • Story (Score:1, Interesting)

    by sirmikester ( 634831 )
    I wonder how all these renders will fit into the story of the game. Is quake 4 supposed to be a single player experience or multi?

    • Re:Story (Score:3, Informative)

      by rplacd ( 123904 )
      Quake 4 is based on Doom iii's engine. Doom III supposedly focuses primarily on singleplayer with very limited mp support (4 players max or something is the figure I read in an interview).

      Of course, they could release a Doom II mp add-on which ends up being incorporated in the Quake 4 base game.

  • So... (Score:1)

    by rylin ( 688457 )
    Who'll be the first devteam to release a *game* based on Q4? :P

    /me is still shocked at the thought that some people call Quake 3 a game... Nice engine though
    • Doom 3 is the engine for Quake 4, which is being developed by Raven Software (http://www.ravensoft.com/), creators of Jedi Knight 2.

      Besides, Quake 3 is fun. It may not have been innovative or amazingly polished, but it is a good game.

    • Re:So... (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Tom7 ( 102298 )
      > /me is still shocked at the thought that some people call Quake 3 a game... Nice engine though

      Yeah, well, people used to call things like "street fighter 2" and "mario brothers" games. Just because it doesn't tell a story doesn't mean it's not a game!

      (For my part, Quake 3 is one of my all-time favorites..)

    • Re:So... (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      What story does "Go" or "Chess" tell, then? Are they not games?

      Fuckwit.
  • Can someone explain what exactly Quake 4 is?

    Doom 3 isn't even finished yet. Are they already working on the next game? Are both gaming lines (Quake and Doom) going to extend into the future?

    Info, please.

  • jesus christ (Score:1, Offtopic)

    by zephc ( 225327 )
    and people complain the signal/noise here on slashdot!
  • Looks like the screens got pulled from the site. Now there's no mention of them anywhere at all.

    In other news, John Ashcroft declared that linking to this site is illegal and will get you a trip to lovely Cuba!
  • Anyone get a mirror? it's gone gone gone now... ugh!

    Quake 4 is a project by Raven? i think.. are they using the Doom 3 engine? not sure.. Anyway, it's supposed to be the sequel to Quake 2 .. I think they should change names, though..

    Quake 2 wasn't really a sequel to Quake 1.. and Quake 3 wasn't really a sequel to it.. they all had entirely different stories and stuff...

    oh well.

    i'm just mindlessly babbling now

  • Mirror (Score:5, Informative)

    by jasoncart ( 573937 ) on Saturday July 19, 2003 @02:15PM (#6479308) Homepage
    http://www.ferrago.com/story/1848 [ferrago.com]
  • Both sites are down.. here is a link to a download of just the renders.. http://p0z3r.dyndns.org/quake4.tar.gz Hope this helps some of you!! Since both previous mirrors are down.
  • http://www.angelfire.com/geek/p0z3r/quake4.tar.gz Sorry about my webserver.. I didn't expect that much downloading at once. lol. -p0z3r
  • http://www.angelfire.com/geek/p0z3r/quake4renders. zip
    I'm finding another server for this as well..
    -pz03r

  • These are not for real (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    These renderings are based on fan work. I doubt these are in any way official. The first guy is actually a Q3A skin. See:

    www.planetquake.com/polycount/downloads/index.as p? model=910

    Btw, Quake is the game that the top 1v1 FPS players use to go head to head. Quake III Arena is simply the most immersive FPS game so far ever made. Other games do the team, graphics and story thing. Quake does the balls on head to head thing.

    Carmack's rulez.
    • The concept art certainly looked real to me. I think it was definitely legit, else why pull it? Almost wish I hadn't looked at it now, spoilt the surprise :D

      The human processing plant as seen previously in Q2 looked especially gruesome.

      One thing that was really interesting were the pictures of vehicles as some of the concepts. I assume there will be some sort of driving element in Q4 - whether on-rails or freeform remains to be seen.
    • that's the fake quake 4 model that was around a while back, and its based on the official concept art for quake 4 that was released in 2001
    • THIS [cgnetworks.com] is the original place that gave me the link to the forum of Quake 3 world showing the concept art & renders. If they are fake, blame them. Their link did say Quake 4 Renders.
      It was in the bottom section for Related Links.
      -p0z3r
  • Found this [ravensoft.com] over at Raven!
    "Hi-Poly Modeler Position for Quake 4:....hi-poly models in the 200,000 to 4,000,000 poly range"
    -p0z3r
  • It look like these were NOT intended to get out at all...every site that had them is gone, gone, gone!

    Here's the word from the staff of QuakeCon regarding the issue: Message board thread [quakecon.org]
  • Dyndns.org was contacted by someone and they terminated my p0z3r.dyndns.org account. They stated that:
    "Your account has been terminated for illegally providing access to, and later linking to, copyrighted materials, specifically captures from Quake 4. That is a very serious violation of our AUP and international copyright law. -- Tim Wilde Systems Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services"
    So, I'm not linking them anymore.. but anyway.

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