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Built on id's revolutionary new 3D graphics engine, DOOM III draws players into the most frightening and gripping 3D gaming experience ever created.
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Creative blackmailing ID ?
Creative Labs have been sending out press releases announcing its agreement with id Software relating to Creative's patented shadowing technique and id's cutting-edge 3D graphics DOOM 3 engine, allowing Creative to develop EAX ADVANCED HD 3D audio options for future licensees but as usual, things aren't always as they seem and ID isn't overly positive on the deal, as Beyond3D received word from John Carmack himself on the matter:
The patent situation well and truly sucks.
We were prepared to use a two-pass algorithm that gave equivalent results at a speed hit, but we negotiated the deal with Creative so that we were able to use the zfail method without having to actually pay any cash. It was tempting to take a stand and say that our products were never going to use any advanced Creative/3dlabs products because of their position on patenting gaming software algorithms, but that would only have hurt the users.
John Carmack
Just for your info: Creative has a patent on shadowing techniques that appear to have some similarities with the ones used by ID Software for Doom 3 and the company was likely to sue ID if no deal would have been made and cash transferred.We were prepared to use a two-pass algorithm that gave equivalent results at a speed hit, but we negotiated the deal with Creative so that we were able to use the zfail method without having to actually pay any cash. It was tempting to take a stand and say that our products were never going to use any advanced Creative/3dlabs products because of their position on patenting gaming software algorithms, but that would only have hurt the users.
John Carmack
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Zembla (old)
Guess nothing much 's happening these days if this already catches the news :p