de Yesterday, one of the worlds most renowned programmers and company announced their new technology. John Carmack of ID Software was presenting his new ID Tech 5 at the WWDC 07 in San Francisco, showing his new technology for the first time to the public. Running on a Mac with OS X he showed a short demonstration of their new project which they have been working on for several years already, which is also supporting the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 consoles. With this new technology, level designers can create vast outdoor landscapes but also very detailed indoor environments with great details.
In his demonstration he showed a small track covered by textures with the size of more than 20GB of textures which the level designer can work interactive by changing the color or the shape of the models, mountains and everything in the world without having any impact on the performance and stability of the game itself. Also, several artists can work at the same world at the same time which can be a lot of fun work-wise, and also creates a great flexibility of changing the actual world. You can see some pictures and even a video of the presentation at the related links below.
ID Software | Pictures at PCGames.de | Video on YouTube