email from john carmack

HUAIDONG WANG wrote:
> Dear John Carmack:
>
> I don't know if you can get this email or not, I have been following 
> your work for a long time, but I was in China, cannot be there at 
> Quakecon, now that I am in Penn State, I can come to Quakecon this year.
>
> For this quakecon, can you talk a little about how far have you been 
> on the unified rendering architecture? that you mentioned in a couple 
> of quakecon, you said you are close to build a architecture for 
> rendering like Renderman did.
The short answer is that I backed away from that.  When targeting a 60hz 
game on current gen consoles, it is still necessary to think like a game 
engine.  You could make a commercial game with a truly general 
architecture, but it wouldn't be at the AAA level currently due to the 
compromises.

John Carmack