R.E.D. by rgba demogroup
http://www.rgba.org
1st presented at
bcn party'11
Nov 2003
final version
May 2004
Requirements:
. 256 RAM
. 1 Ghz+ processor
. A decent graphics car, like.
* GF2 Ti
* GF4 Ti 4200
- GF FX 5600 (see notes)
* Radeon class, preferably 8500 or better,
with Catalyst 4.1 or newer. With previous
releases it could crash your computer
Credits:
enlar code
epsilum code
iq code
jewoll soundtrack
newalpha gfx
r3d gfx, demo script
utopian code
Greets go to:
anaconda
boah
dust inc.
fuzzion
GUM
mankind
network
spontz
stravaganza
suspend
synth
talsit de cod
threepixels
tpm
xplsv
zona neutra
Notes-party-version:
This demo was suppossed to be presented at Euskal Encounter
11, as a 2 week fast-demo. But, once more, we failed.
And now, finally, here it is; almost another failure!
Isn't it incredible? ;)
I (enlar) just contributed a bunch of bugs and fixes
to base demosystem, so let's see what utopian has to
tell us:
Well, the base configuration for the demo should be
something like a decent processor (1+ GHz should do),
about 256 MB of RAM, and a faaast gfx card. Our tests
show that a GF2 Ti and a GF4 Ti 4200 work pretty well.
However, a GF FX 5600 proved to be quite slow, and it
gets worse if you use the 52.X drivers. We'll try to
test and fix that if possible... So, if it goes
horribly slow, tell us and we will see. If a GF2 can
do it, your card should :).
Final version comments:
enlar:
So it seems that this demo was quite succesfull. Thank yous
to everybody who told us what they felt and thought about
R.E.D.; we love you all. :)
It is very difficult to explain the pain that was for me and
other rgba members at bcn party'11 to release this prod.
I have never felt so bad about something that must be
finished and I can't work on. So, why was it? r3D, who
was not at partyplace but 500 km away, was the man scripting
and building all parts of R.E.D. together, and we had
space problems, time problems, internet connection problems,
and of course, we were extremely nervous.
Glad that this one made 1st at democompo :)
Finally, sorry for being so late with this final version.
Sadly most rgba members are out of time lately and, you
know, final version polishing isn't a work anyone likes.
So look forward for rgba's next two big releases. I'm
confident they'll be as least as successful as this one.
r3D:
I was enlar's pain's reason 8). I'm not happy at all with
the approach I took to finish this prod. Some thoughts
after revealed that something have to change in the
pipeline. Hope we'll see this in our next productions.
So it seems we got a prod with semifinished smell that
some people liked. Well, that's good a sympton after all.
utopian:
This demo was a bit painful to finish, but anyway I am very
proud of the result. It was also a bit picky with the gfx
card of choice, since it caused people with Radeon cards to
suffer heavy crashes :(. Finally I had to buy a Radeon 9600
for my computer to finish the debugging, and we were lucky
ATI released new drivers that solved the crashes... Remember,
if Windows XP crashes badly, it's not my fault, it's the
driver's fault (at least this time ;).
