Da FLy: We are actually very close to real worlds being rendered, and base don various interviews from carmack, DOOM3 will be a macro version of that. Currently, the only things missing to create an entire world with a depth of detail similar to doom3 are/were 64bit processors (4 gigs of ram will be very unimpressive in a year or two... 64 bit processors can handle TERAbytes of data), and people with enough gusto to actually make that much content, especially to that detail... 2d palm trees in GTA would look completely gay (as if they don't already IMO) in a renderer on par or better than doom 3. I can't wait until a renderer with that much juice is released... you are definetely right... imagine blowing up an entire building with c4, and watching it fall into another from a helicopter... that will be beautiful
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