Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Dec 09, 2024, 08:59:46 AMContinuing to look fantastic! Thanks for your hard work and sharing these progress updates.
Indeed, but will it be any fun to play and interesting? I've often heard the phrase "that's a nice looking car ya got there but does it do anything?" Fortunately this car will fry your eggs and do your dishes at the same time. I have many surprises in store to make a better adventure overall. All with tech over 20 years old and still looking better than some new tech. Unreal Engine still has that cartoonish look and feel. where idtech4 makes you feel more a part of the environment. Example being I felt I was actually on the covenant bridge and could feel it. and that says something. Thanks Corporal Hicks for the confidence as that is much appreciated. On another note...
When I was testing the compression of archives for the Project I found .7zip
was the overall winner as it is also compatible with WinRAR and WinZip.
I tried setting up an installer and that just became a headache.
I still have more to build yet so far these are approx. file sizes for the project.
There are still some files that I can trim that are not used so that may make a difference.
I believe the final file size may be around 3 to maybe 4 GB. or somewhere in between when finished.
as a lot of new textures and models have been added. I'll update more as it comes along.
Compression of archives.
Prometheus_Covenant_iDTech4_Project. .7zip = 3.39 GB
Prometheus_Covenant_iDTech4_Project. .rar = 3.65 GB
Prometheus_Covenant_iDTech4_Project. .zip = 3.95 GB
Uncompressed the project is 6.46 GB in size.
Again this will be a simple 'Extract and Play' setup to where the main game goes to a drive
and the shortcut goes to the desktop. The shortcut is important as it has a setup of Fullscreen parameters
provided and High resolution is pre-setup in the .cfg so no adjustments are needed. This is all straight out of the box.
Short, Sweet and Simple. I still have a bit more to do, I'll provide more Updates when available.
Thanks everyone interested. J