M$ shows G800... in DX9 demos...
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One big piece of unfinished DirectX business that Microsoft has promised to deliver soon is a full .Net binding to DirectX. (See Phil Taylor's recent emails in the DirectXDev mailing list.)
Perhaps they will call this .Net binding DirectX 9, and then call the new hardware API DirectX 9.1?
Or maybe it's the other way around -- maybe the Inquirer got it wrong, and DX 9 will support the new hardware, and come out this fall, while DX 9.1 supports .Net and comes out in 2003? That sounds more reasonable.
Unless, of course, MS knows that no DX9-level hardware is actually going to ship this year? (Say it isn't so!)
Perhaps they will call this .Net binding DirectX 9, and then call the new hardware API DirectX 9.1?
Or maybe it's the other way around -- maybe the Inquirer got it wrong, and DX 9 will support the new hardware, and come out this fall, while DX 9.1 supports .Net and comes out in 2003? That sounds more reasonable.
Unless, of course, MS knows that no DX9-level hardware is actually going to ship this year? (Say it isn't so!)
It was done in Hardware
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/2002/0322/video3.mpg
Listen to the voice. Clearly states it was done in Hardware with Matrox hardware.
Rags
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/2002/0322/video3.mpg
Listen to the voice. Clearly states it was done in Hardware with Matrox hardware.
Rags
IIRC some time ago (1996 or 1997?) Carmack was talking about a new game engine named Trinity (never finished). His vision for this new engine was a completelly outdoor/indoor capable game engine. He described something like a caracter flying for many miles and then landing in the top of a castle and getting inside the castle without any problem.
Will displacement mapping help with it?
edited: See this interview http://www.voodooextreme.com/articles/interview_jc.html
What about a enhanced Doom3 engine with more passes and displacement mapping doing big outdoors 8)
Will displacement mapping help with it?
edited: See this interview http://www.voodooextreme.com/articles/interview_jc.html
edited2: See this too 8) http://www.planetquake.com/Trinity/infobytype.html
What about a enhanced Doom3 engine with more passes and displacement mapping doing big outdoors 8)
Some Photoshop help needed here: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/2002/0322/dx9_5.jpg
See the yellow Menu Help in the top left with 14 lines.
One line say "Toggle Clouds Texture"
Other line says "Full Mode (solid)"
Definitelly a Matrox hardware 8)
Could someone invert the yellow to black and apply some sharp filter in the JPG above?
See the yellow Menu Help in the top left with 14 lines.
One line say "Toggle Clouds Texture"
Other line says "Full Mode (solid)"
Definitelly a Matrox hardware 8)
Could someone invert the yellow to black and apply some sharp filter in the JPG above?
You'd better watch some good sw rasterizer. I coded a fast (25 fps, 320x256x8 bit) trilinear-filtering roto-zoomer on my old 25 mhz/460 ns access memory Amiga4000 almost 5 years ago.pascal said:
With SIMD extensions is even easier to code stuff like that, with tiled textures bilinear filtering could be almost free, hiding operations with mem latency. I can't see why a modern CPU with a fast submemory system can't do it.
ciao,
Marco
nAo: don't jump on gun.
I am 99% sure that those videos weren't running on SW.
Displacement maps with that amount of tesselation on CPU and getting acceptable framerates?? well, I really would like to see that.
I have one pretty simple Displacement Mapping demo running totally on SW and with 1Ghz Athlon TB I get about 14 fps with 18Kpolys tesselation and 320x200x8 displacement map. And eventhough that demo on those videos would have used some parts on HW and some SW, it would have been just too much for CPU.
and don't get me wrong... I understand your point of view, but there is a huge jump from Trilinear filtered rotozoomer (Future Crew had this on their Second Reality btw. Or was it using even Anisotropic??
) to Displacement Mapping (with that amount of tesselation.) done in SW.
and nAo: check out the Soiled Legacy from Resource. That is freaking awesome demo if you ask me. and it is running on good old C64! so get a copy of CCS64 and grab that demo from http://c64.ch and I can promise that you need to pick up your jaw from the floor more than once.
I am 99% sure that those videos weren't running on SW.
Displacement maps with that amount of tesselation on CPU and getting acceptable framerates?? well, I really would like to see that.
I have one pretty simple Displacement Mapping demo running totally on SW and with 1Ghz Athlon TB I get about 14 fps with 18Kpolys tesselation and 320x200x8 displacement map. And eventhough that demo on those videos would have used some parts on HW and some SW, it would have been just too much for CPU.
and don't get me wrong... I understand your point of view, but there is a huge jump from Trilinear filtered rotozoomer (Future Crew had this on their Second Reality btw. Or was it using even Anisotropic??
) to Displacement Mapping (with that amount of tesselation.) done in SW.and nAo: check out the Soiled Legacy from Resource. That is freaking awesome demo if you ask me. and it is running on good old C64! so get a copy of CCS64 and grab that demo from http://c64.ch and I can promise that you need to pick up your jaw from the floor more than once.
Our 'mole' at GDC had this to say about the Matrox presentation: