
                           FATE / 7 Gods demo group

                        (C) 2000 http://7gods.rulez.sk

                     1st place at DemoBit'00 26 Feb, 2000

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                     "whoever will fight against netscape
                       will be burnt to death on spit
                       and we will take care about it"
                                           Destro / 7Gods


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  Release 1.0 README
  09/03/2000

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  FATE is a (scene) demo, a non-commercial product designed to win the
  DemoBit'00 party held in Nitra, Slovakia (Feb. 26-27, 2000).
  Mission completed. Now you are diving into the final release of your fate.

  FATE features real-time rendered 3D graphics based on a hardware accelerated
 engine (supporting OpenGL) mixed with other real-time calculated effects like
 water dynamics, fire, particle engine, object morphing and more.

  FATE also features megabytes of graphics, 3D models, sort of design and
 mp3 soundtrack.

  You can watch this for free and show it to as many people as you
 wish ( more = better ) (refer to disclaimer paragraph for more details).

  FATE also contains all our frustration of lack of time for non-work,
 non-study creative life, frustration of using the three letter parody
 of operating system, frustration of ignorant people around, mess in our
 city, mess in our lives and frustration of the "we are never gonna win".
  And at all, we simply had to create a demo. Because we are addicted to that.

  For more info about demos, scene, and specially about FATE and it's genesis
 simply check out our web: http://7gods.rulez.sk and let us know that you care.
                      e-mail: 7gods@7gods.rulez.sk

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  Requirements:
   Win32 system ( Win [95,98,2000,NT] )  (linux executable coming soon)
   Pentium MMX, PII, AMD K6 or Athlon processor
   at least 32MB RAM
   3D graphic accelerator with correctly installed OpenGL drivers
   sound card for those not-deaf-yet

  And this stuff may help: (but it is not a *must*)
   128MB RAM, WinNT, 32MB video memory, support for ARB_multitexture
   strongly recommended

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 The ENGINE.CFG file...

 You can specify your window size and color bit depth by modifying the
 windowwidth, windowheight, colorbpp values.
 To switch on/off trilinear filtering, set the value of mipfilter to 1/0.
 You can force not to use OpenGL extensions by setting glextensions to 0.

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  7 Gods demo group and other cool people participating in our life:
   Apache       7 Milan Janosik        G apache@7gods.rulez.sk
   Destroyer    7 Juraj Barat          G destroyer@7gods.rulez.sk
   Fefe         7 Martin Ferencei      G fefe@7gods.rulez.sk
   Mondo        - Pavol Vaskovic       G mondo@7gods.rulez.sk
   Nazghul      - Ludovit Lukac        G black pixel doesn't like e-mail ;)
   Pavuk        7 Marek Antozi         G pavuk@7gods.rulez.sk
   Ped          7 Peter Helcmanovsky   G ped@7gods.rulez.sk
   Pefo         7 Peter Onofrej        G pefo@7gods.rulez.sk
   Sayza        7 Maros Sandor         G sayza@7gods.rulez.sk
   Tren         7 Zsolt Trencsenyi     G tren@7gods.rulez.sk

 FATE credits:
   Apache: graphics (some 3D models and textures)
   Fefe: graphics (some 3D models and textures)
   Nazghul: graphics (a few textures)
   Pavuk: hacking (a lot of textures) :)
   Ped: code (water & fire & particle generators)
   Pefo: code (object morpher)
   Sayza: code (system related routines, audio and gfx libraries)
   Tren: code (3D engine, visualization, OpenGL stuff, etc etc etc)
         graphics (3D scenes, models, some textures)
         cool gothic-industrial soundtrack, nothing ;)

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 Troubleshooting:
  We don't have enough resources to test the demo with wide variety of hw & sw
  so we definitely need some feedback from you, if you have some problems with
  running our demo. (keep in mind that this is a non-commercial product)
  We were able to test it with some Riva TNT and TNT2 boards, GeFORCE256
  shouldn't mean any problem. Not tested with ATI Rage128, Matrox G200-G400,
  Voodoo, S3 Savage, so please report any ugly misfunctioning.

  A few things to know before running FATE...
  = OpenGL related:
  - if you are capable to run Quake3Arena game, FATE *should* work too.
  (Q3A is probably the best OpenGL testing program at the moment :))
  if not, please report the problem, we will try to fix it.
  = Speed related:
  - with 350MHz+, WinNT, 128MB RAM and 16MB 3D card you may use full texture
  details in 640x480 resolution, (and it might be not smooth, blame windows)
  With less memory you should lower texture details, mostly if there are
  drop-outs at the beginning of each new scene caused by texture uploads.
  - running demo in 16bit mode will cause most drivers to emulate stencil
  buffer feature in software mode (nVidia's). This hurts, so rather sacrifice
  texture quality and use 32bit mode.
  = General:
  - don't forget to set high volume before pressing the RUN button... :)
    if soundtrack sounds a bit yerky, thank windows and it's incredible
    multitasking (audioplayer runs in a separate thread)

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 Other things from our lives:
  Check WWW page of First Sight Entertainment: (in summer :))
      http://members.xoom.com/fseteam
  Ped thanks Barnett for supporting him with PC.
  And of course official DemoBit web: http://www.demobit.sk

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 Greetings:
  3SC, Acme, Astral, Bestie, Broncs, Busy, Cauldron, Chelly, Complex, Cult,
  Dimension, Doomsday, Dubius, ELL, Eufrosyne, Gods, Halcyon, Hudis, id, LM,
  Lynx, MovSD, Mist, NoooN, Noro, Olli3, Orange, Oxygene, Peon, Prokop,
  Pulse, Rage, React, Remedy, Ronyx, Sequence, Skywalker, SpaZ, Statix,
  StudioStyle, Sunflower, Sunrise, Terror Opera, Trauma, Unreal, Vivid,
  WWW, Zden, and all other people we like, and we forget them to put here.

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 Disclaimer:
  7GODS is not liable for any damage arising from any and all use
  of this package. You are using this software completely at your
  own risk. In case of other damage we may be responsible for,
  7GODS will provide you with nice postcard with special greetings
  for you. No other action may be taken against 7GODS.
   If such responsibility is not allowed by law of your country, you
  are not allowed to use this software in any way and you must
  destroy it immediately.

   If you want to run the software at any public presentation, or
  you are distributing it on CD, web/ftp site, or at other media, you
  must send an e-mail to hellco@upjs.sk with detailed information
  about the presentation and/or distribution of this software.

   No part of this package could be changed.

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