Horde3D

next-gen. i've seen this attribute put next to almost everything, from the unreal engine 3 to simple demos that only featured normal maps and motion blur. imho it's overused, and the net is over-saturated with next-gen items, not actually differentiating between them. i believe that we should emphasize on what makes horde3d, horde3d. and switch from "next-generation graphics engine" to "shader-based graphics engine" or something similar.

in the end, what i'm saying comes to that we should replace this general marketing term with something that is inherent to horde3d.

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Paul

I find 'next-gen' fairly catchy, and I don't think that a change will make much difference. Programmers evaluating graphics engines are very rarely going to be pulled in by a catch phrase - some more beautiful samples and demos would be worth considerably more

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Tristam MacDonald - [swiftcoding]

Although nextgen is certainly overused and more of a marketing term, I think it describes Horde better than "shader-based engine" since our focus is competitive graphics quality and proper integration in a modern game engine architecture.

That's true. Unfortunately I was never good in making really stunning looking demos, so someone else needs to help out there

When I get done with the hell of a semester, I hope to be able to spend some time in the summer doing exactly that - however, you know how life goes...

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Tristam MacDonald - [swiftcoding]