Recent content by Concerto

I had to read up on the image based rendering and PowerVR’s Infinite Planes techniques. The former is like a Cube-map on steroids or something? At least that’s the idea I got when reading about it. The Infinite Plane tech is interesting though but I am left wondering what the real world...

So on Twitter I came across a thread posted by Richard Mitton (@grumpygiant) asking for any examples of rendering dead-ends, one of his examples being Ecstatica’s ellipsoid technology. I found this interesting and wondered if there is anybody on this forum with experiences with that sort of...

Now that I think about it, MegaMan Legends, both the original PS1 and N64 versions have a localized distortion effect too. It is only visible (as far as I know) with the ending boss fight. Its sequel has it as well. It is more pronounced there.

Jumping Flash for the PlayStation has some nice frame buffer distortion effects for the underwater segments. (That is what is called, right?) All though, I do not know if it relates to the Tomb Raider footage from the Saturn version.

I wonder if the Panzer Dragoon coverage will discuss the pc version utilizing the Diamond Edge 3d (Nvidia NV1).

So recently I got together a brand new rig. All of the components work fine except my old hard drive. Upon booting, it will go through the usual sequence as expected until it is time to enter Windows. Then it will crash to a blue screen. Now, I know the hard drive works (it is being used on...

Well to get to those points. *Yes, creating a console as part of the set-top-box. I do not see why they could not. * I can see that the cable companies not being a global business can be a problem. I guess I was thinking more domestically here in the U.S. * In regards to people moving across...

So I had an idea about cable companies and why they do not enter the games industry? Seeing as they control all other means of content (internet, phone, TV) and they won over the FCC ruling. You would think that the games market would be the next avenue to get their greedy hands into. Think...

Wow, thank you guys for the information, you are all really helpful. Seems a bit embarrassing that I could not find this myself. Okay, so I will take these into acount and see what I come up with. I guess if I have anymore questions I will post here.

Okay, this just shows how poorly I communicate my intentions. To clarify, I am doing this as a hobbyist and I do intend on writing a real-time software rasterizer on the cpu to learn about the graphics pipeline. My biggest issue right now is one of ignorance as I try to correct my misconceptions...

1. Sure, can you link me to the articles? 2. Can you explain what you mean by making something?

O.k. I suspected that I wasn’t clear enough. I know about Visual Studio and Notepad ++ (although not so much of the others shown), but I was thinking more in line of like Direct Draw or Simple Direct Media Layer, something like that. I am thinking of the right things aren’t I or do I need...

Hello, first I would like to apologize for the generic title and I would like to say that I've been a follower on this forum for quite a while and decided that I wanted to participate in the graphics discussions other than just reading about it. But I have a problem and that is I do not know...