Facts about John Carmack
- Carmack had invented lighting technique for 3D games which is better than real sun lighting and works very fast even on Pentium-2. But he din't publish it because he likes God and do not want to publish God's incompetence in lighting techniques.
- Carmack has nightvision ability because he can disable "dynamic shadows" life's option and real life has no "static shadows".
- Carmack knows how to turn on real life's console and enter cheat codes in it. But he despises cheaters.
- Carmack had patented "feeling of satisfaction" during shooting in the unpleasant creature from close distance from two-barreled shotgun.
- Carmack had written ideal 3D-game physics engine for two days only. But later he had spended half of year to rewrite it from scratch because real physic is imperfect.
- Carmack can divide by zero.
- Carmack's games are based on real stories from 3010AD.
- Carmack always knows which electron in the chips caused program failure.
- Carmack has portal to hell in his working cabinet.
- Carmack doesn't know the word "impossible". Also he hates the word "unreal".
Facts about Carmack for game programmers:
- Carmack debugs programs by sending binary exes to sound card. While listening the sound he determines errors in code.
- Carmack doesn't like big open areas because of Z-fighting in his eyes.
- Carmack doesn't like to keep doors opened because opened visible portal reduces FPS.
- Carmack doesn't like to twinkle because closed eyes cause huge fillrate with poor image quality.
- Carmack blames God due to God had created universe out-door, not in-door.
- Some time ago Carmack was writing letter on the sheet of paper. Once he filled one side of the sheet and crossover it, it has dissapeared. Carmack had thought "shity culling...".
- Carmack casts sharp shadow only.
[Edited by - born2die on November 28, 2006 7:49:51 AM]
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Facts about John Carmack
Started by born2die, Nov 27 2006 11:16 PM
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Posted 29 November 2006 - 02:39 AM
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Original post by grekster
Carmack doesnt use a monitor, he just ripped out his eyeballs and plugged his optic nerves directly into the video out sockets.
Carmack now leaves a hell of a mess when he goes the toilet.
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Posted 01 December 2006 - 11:22 PM
When Carmack moves, Chuck Norris lifts his left eyebrow.
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Posted 02 December 2006 - 12:54 AM
A fictional conversation between John Carmack and the ambassador of another planet:
Ambassador: Greetings earthling. We come in peace. What is it that you do on your planet?
Carmack: I make computer games where you run around and kill aliens.
Ambassador: Greetings earthling. We come in peace. What is it that you do on your planet?
Carmack: I make computer games where you run around and kill aliens.
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 09:13 AM
In the early development of Doom 3, John Carmack was forced to fabricate and engineer the first Brain-to-AGP adapter for himself so he could run the Alpha in full graphics with a decent framerate.
