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Matthew Earl

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Using Python and Blender I produce a tool for converting Quake demo files into a path traced scene. Read more

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Path Tracing Quake in Blender

This week twenty-five years ago, Quake broke new ground in game engine realism. It was one of the first commercial games to have fully texture mapped 3D scenes rendered in real-time, with pre-computed lightmaps adding an extra layer of atmosphere.