Could someone explain the TEV to me?

[Fox5]

Ok, I know its flippers pixel shading/texturing unit(is vertex shading included?), but what it makes it different/the same from other chips, how does it work? Is it something worth keeping in future hardware?

 

[akira888]

The best resource I've seen yet. I haven't worked on GC (I've only written a couple of lame PSX demos) so I can't completely vouch for it's accuracy.

www.gamasutra.com/features/20021002/sauer_01.htm

Pointless registration required, sorry.

 

[PC-Engine]

ERP has posted some info here about the TEV, just do a search of the forum. His team did a feasibility test for the canceled Xbox racing game on GCN.

 

[Megadrive1988]

in a nutshell, the TEV is a SUPER TMU. too bad Flipper only has 1 TEV in total.

I know that's a piss-poor explanation. best I can do tonight.

 

[Fox5]

Ah, I found ERPs post, and I looked over that gamasutra article.....and the TEV definetely isn't as publically documented as nvidia's stuff.

 

[Zeross]

Maybe this patent can help you to better understand the TEV. Of course it's not really "sexy" to read, and you have to search for useful informations through a lot of stuff (remember it's a patent ) but it's the best I've found when I was looking for more informations on the Flipper.

 

[Fox5]

Well, it's sexier than most patents