Brahma is a 3D game engine with a rather retrofuturistic design, intended for small studios and solo developers. It's being written from scratch in C++ using standard Windows API and no third-party libraries. This technology introduces an entirely new class of low-latency real-time engines that make special timing requirements, treating frames as video fields with a target time budget of 2-4 ms each, down from 16-33 ms frame budgets normally seen in game engines. It evolves in a different way than other modern engines, rejecting conventional BSP, Z-buffer, floating-point coordinates, and most of the lame screen-space effects in favor of innovative and efficient techniques. The engine is non-Euclidean capable to some degree; also it supports true displacement mapping for sectors as a means to virtualize geometry that affects collisions. The engine is also carefully designed to be easy and convenient to develop for, yet versatile and adaptive to any needs.
I've tried to make a few heightmaps for the Ion Fury floor textures, and put them into a compilation called "TinyFury" that includes only the most essential game content. So this is how Ion Fury would look with some extensive use of heightmapping.
Woah, that looks cool! How does it look in motion? The hightmap screenshots you've posted in the past looked good but this looks even better!
Great to know, thanks! The current implementation has a hard time rendering such floors from "below" or straight above, but I'm happy with the texels being drawn as perfect boxes; also my hybrid AA method drastically improves distant heightmaps when viewed in 144 Hz. As a sidenote, mipmaps for heightmaps should be generated using maximum ("lighten") blending mode instead of averaging.