Actually, that's why I said 7 years old. The original Radeon is a little over 6 years old.
Emh..this comment is a bit silly, games which use embm or variants are countless, no one is really ignoring it.
Since the DX9 era, sure. That's like 4 years late. Before that, it was only in a couple games (I remember Expendable and Slave Zero, and not much else). Nobody saw it as an advantage of the Radeon and Kyro, even though it's a very ground-breaking effect for gfx hardware (dependent reads!). Moreover, the really nice applications were never exploited. No racing game used it (F1 is the first, AFAIK). Nobody used it for reflective floors like the Ark demo. Even for heat waves, I haven't seen it used beyond Doom 3. As I said before, the whole DX8 era was plagued by texm3x3vspec water, which is visually wrong. Global heat waves looked decent in Gran Turismo 3 replays, and asphalt-localized waves would look great while racing.
If I'm being naive, then why isn't it used on the road then? It's so simple, so fast, and looks so good. Besides, I'm not knocking the F1 devs, because they're actually doing what I want. I'm more pissed that nobody's done this before.
All I can say is wow at these new pictures.
Tons of GC games used EMBM for various distorsion effects (water, heat waves, reflections), games such as Super Mario Sunshine, Resident Evil 4, Zelda WW, Rogue Leader, etc...
its posted in 4D
sorry couldnt help it
I'm saying that probably they took a huge screenshot and then they downsampled it or maybe they took many screenshots from the same POV slighty jittering the camera position and accumulating them into a final screenshot. Both techniques are useful to reduce aliasing artifacts..Thanks for the reply. Are you talking anti-aliasing? If not, you might as well have said that to my nan
