I stumbled across this demoscene offering:
QuoteQuote from http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=%2Fparties%2F2009%2Fbreakpoint09%2Fin4k%2Frgba_tbc_elevated.zip&fileinfo
exactly one year ago i made an executable procedural graphic and video called ixaleno, which i liked. people asked when such imagery would be realtime, and i was answering "today", as i have already seen terragen quality landscapes, completely procedural, in opengl. the point really was how good i could do _in 4 kilobytes_. i experimented and concluded i could so something similar to ixaleno without much problem, and so i stoped playing with it.
Matt should give him a job. Imagine what he could do without the 4k restriction.
Download "elevated" from here - http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=%2Fparties%2F2009%2Fbreakpoint09%2Fin4k%2Frgba_tbc_elevated.zip&fileinfo
Or vimeo for the vid - http://www.vimeo.com/4138285
But somehow having the actual thing running in realtime seems a little more impressive than the video link (it's probably smaller to download too :)).
rgba site - http://www.rgba.org/
That's definitely very impressive! I've always been fascinated by the demo scene. ;D
- Oshyan
This as TG2 3D Preview... :o
The lighting is very realistic!
But I discovered my pc isn't that good in 1024x768 realtime rendering...
I love these things. I've seen a few over the years and they always seem to astound me with what they can do with such little resource.
A bit like what I had with 512kb sample memory, except we as a garden shed band, in the early nineties, were crap.
Just to point out, dont download those files, they're packed with trojans
Quote from: zionner on April 21, 2009, 11:33:30 AM
Just to point out, dont download those files, they're packed with trojans
Not as far as my Symantec Antivirus realtime Auto-protect is concerned...
Quote from: Mohawk20 on April 21, 2009, 12:26:29 PM
Quote from: zionner on April 21, 2009, 11:33:30 AM
Just to point out, dont download those files, they're packed with trojans
Not as far as my Symantec Antivirus realtime Auto-protect is concerned...
As far as mine is concerned there is...
..But..Whatever, I'm just trying to help
Ohw well... I tried scanning them separately, but Symantec doesn't see anything. What scanner did you use? I noticed some scanners see other problems than others.
kaspersky doesn't see anything either.
Mcafee
that would explain a possible false positive ;) lol
Quote from: neuspadrin on April 21, 2009, 06:19:02 PM
that would explain a possible false positive ;) lol
It would? What's wrong with Mcafee?
I think the nature of these small executables triggers some anti-virus software.
Quote from: Tangled-Universe on April 22, 2009, 03:50:33 AM
I think the nature of these small executables triggers some anti-virus software.
Well, they often use different PE packers to try to reduce size, and several malware makers do this as well to reduce size and try to obfuscate reverse engineering.
Quote from: zionner on April 21, 2009, 11:33:30 AM
Just to point out, dont download those files, they're packed with trojans
What did Mcafee report? That is has been packed with an executable packer?
I cant remember, and I'd prefer not to try again
There's no viruses on them, but as TU said, the nature of a 4k program means that anti-virus programs sometimes detect them as viruses. These would be very useful for 3d previews, especially as Planetside doesn't especially need it to fit into 4KB, so the processing power required to execute what is essentially a mass of mathematic algorithms wouldn't be as prevelant. I reckon the same techniques within a size limit of about 30MB would be astounding.
Remember of course that they are able to optimize for the exact settings and scene they are creating here. If they had to make it capable of more generalized noise functions and effects, it would be a lot less optimized and fast. Nonetheless it's very impressive indeed.
- Oshyan