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Gamespy a rédigé un rapport sur la conférence de John Carmack à l'E3. Il y parle des temps de développement d'un moteur 3D et d'un jeu comme Doom 3 (six ans!), de la facon dont il a concu le moteur, de l'age d'or des technologie 3D et de ses travaux dans l'aéro spaciale.

Carmack is a purist. He doesn't incorporate graphical gimmicks for any one particular effect on any one piece of hardware. He extolled the value of "universalness and consistency" across hardware, and the technology he wanted to design was built on similar principles. Current technology renders different types of surfaces differently, and it renders light sources differently based on whether they're dynamic or static. Not so in DOOM 3: "Lights and surfaces are all treated as first-class citizens," he said, meaning they were rendered by the same processes. "It's not about being spectacular," he explained. "It's about being consistent."

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