Rage creative director Tim Willits admitted that it would be almost impossible to mod id Software's highly anticipated post-apocalyptic first person shooter, even on PC.
The difficulty to mod Rage is an unfortunate result of the complex technology utilized in id Tech 5 engine. A major feature in the new graphics engine developed by the legendary programmer, John Carmack, is the Megatexture system.
Instead of storing textures in separate files, the Megatexture system stores the texture data for levels as one huge texture map that streams in. The generation of that Megatexture requires an insane amount of processing power that is not expected to be available to game modders. Just like the render farms used to render CG movies, id Software have a large number of high end CPUs working for long times to produce Rage's Megatextures.
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Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
f**kin s**t
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
where there is a will, there is a way.
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
so brilliant to kill the feature that has defined id games for so long...
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
shut up mofo's.this game is going to kick balls.I am a huge fan of ID, they never let me down. Fck the mods, hence I never played doom 3 mods.
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
With their use of "megatextures", it sounds like you'd need one of those Duel Xeon Quad-core MacPros with 32GB of RAM just to even try making a mod.
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
this sounds like a pile of s**t, designed to increase security at the cost of performance. NO THANKS ID...SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASSES. i might try a torrent, so i can have the pleasure of deleting it afterwards! c**ts
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
Sounds like ID are trying to make themselves sound good now that the Crytek engine is the new king.
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
at 20:1Search google images before spilling your BS. no single pc is capable of doing it in a feasible amount of time.
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
looks like this game is going to be a new crysis with only about 3 people being able to put the settings to high...
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
can't you read? he didn't say that playing will request high-end pc, only that working with the megatextures do, so modding will be hard or impossible. megatextures are used with quake wars, a game with reasonable system requests
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
BOYCOTT THIS GAME FOR GREAT GAMER JUSTICE!!!
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
Anonymousat 17:28ID has never let you down?? cry me a river, dork...
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
"Legendary programmer"? Epic ass kissing.
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
ID games have been crap for years frankly.
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
Crysis rocks (on low/ medium settings)
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
haha lol usually megagames ain't totally filled with retards.. but today 80% of the people in this post take the award.. epic failing on understanding the post, asswads.
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
great so there won't be mods out there so you will sell what half as many copies as modders won't buy it and everyone else will use a torrent!most of the good FPS games have also been modded alot which INCREASES SALES. look at half life and the counter strike MOD, you wont be getting any of that will you?
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
anyway, i dont think there wont be mods... mods based on stats, number of enemies, new items or weapons etc have nothing to do with the megatextures, so will probably be avaible
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
@ 15:30Totally possible yes, but any modder worth his/her salt wont bother with this.
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
for all there s**t talk about megatextures... the grapics STILL look like ass to me. I could see them being good if your charicter was wearing some extream glasses. that said, like anon@15:30 said there will still be mods. just probably no 'LARGE' mods,
Rage Director: Rage Mods Are Almost Impossible
usually megagames ain't totally filled with retards"You're joking right?
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