GL ProQuake Vs. Darkplaces (Side-by-side video)

[turtlevan]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EmHw14ddIg]YouTube - GL ProQuake Versus Darkplaces (Quality Comparison)[/ame]

[LambentHammerBurst]

Damn your brightness for the effects (lava ball, rockets ect) are intense. My rockets give about 1/5th of that lol.

[turtlevan]

1/3rd if you use the default config

[Baker]

Hats off to your video skills. I wouldn't have the slightest idea on how to synchronize 2 videos into a single video.

Yeah, ProQuake is quite ugly compared to DarkPlaces. Some of us like the old 1997 Quake experience. Even though I maintain ProQuake now, it doesn't matter to me whether or not someone is using DarkPlaces, Qrack, DirectQ or something else to play online. I got into engine modding so ProQuake users didn't have to deal with a horde of technical issues that kept getting posted in the forums.

[haze_the_great]

i thought that was a cool comparison for people who weren't sure why they should try darkplaces, but i have to say the dynamic lighting effects are way overdone. you lose all of the textures/atmosphere in an orange flashing glow.

[Seven]

Everybody knows I am a great DarkPlaces fan,
but the gloss textures, that are used in that video (most probably Rygel�s) is what I dont like.
Gloss textures makes everything look like plastic. The shiny effect is too much.
Its not the dirty Quake in my eyes.

But a good video to show the capabilities of DP in general.


Anyhow, big respect to turtlevan in doing a simultanous engine video !

Kind Regards,
Seven

[Polarite]

Nice comparison of GL Proquake versus Darkplaces.
My darkplaces setup looks like that for single and coop mode and my proquake looks like that for muliplayer

[turtlevan]

Haha! good to know, Pol. Yeah Seven I used your effects and boxes in DP. And Baker I've been using your proquake since 3.5 ended and you took over, and I used proquake since it began.

I like PQ and still use it to play deathmatch teamgames on CRMOD. I use darkplaces for COOP and for playing around to test graphics.

Hope you guys liked that video!

[Baker]

Haha! good to know, Pol. Yeah Seven I used your effects and boxes in DP. And Baker I've been using your proquake since 3.5 ended and you took over, and I used proquake since it began.

I like PQ and still use it to play deathmatch teamgames on CRMOD. I use darkplaces for COOP and for playing around to test graphics.

Hope you guys liked that video!

Heh. I was kidding around, TV

No I've rather enjoyed your movies. Like the DP coop one. You've done an excellent job helping people visualize DP in-game with all the effects maxxed.

If it were not for the home page being already very saturated in media, I would have embedded it. Maybe in the future.

[Scribble[SFD]]

I dislike Darkplaces as it changes TOO much from the original Quake feel. I much prefer Proquake.

I have tried both ports at various stages and PQ never game me any problems (except 1 beta version that had missing keys on 2 single player levels). Meanwhile, DP, on various versions and various systems over the years, always gave me issues, mostly with massive drops in framerates, I'm talking down to 5-10 FPS.

I realize some gamers seem to run it perfectly fine, but that it doesn't work for me on a number of different machines and many other gamers' reports on various forums tells me that the DP devs might be better suited for making console games.

Although a mute point I guess, since isn't DP dev finished?

[turtlevan]

Hey Baker, if you'll put one up on the homepage, wait and I'll make a great video (true split screen side-by-side) of various action scenes from different demos. With slow motion and stuff. Gimme a few weeks and I'll post it up. Anyone have any requests, let me know.

I'm thinking like a reforged skinned Deathknight walking in and out of RTworld DP to Glquake in slow motion, with zoom and stuff. 1080P Raw HD with a soundtrack of course.

[Chip]

Well, isn't that a demo played twice in GLQuake and DP? And then it's just merged in one movie. Simple if you know how.

[R00k]

Although a mute point I guess, since isn't DP dev finished?

No, the engine is very actively being coded.
This game was made using DarkPlaces Xonotic

@Chip DP stripping? I agree there's a lot of features in DP, but recording demos is a vital feature that modern games have. Not mainly used for cut scenes but on the player's end.