MBX Lite iPhone Graphics

[Lazy8s]

Nova not only shows that Halo's graphics could be reproduced adequately by the original iPhone, but it might as well already be Halo with its dead-ringer styling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywhwogYppUA

Eliminate evokes a Halo vibe as well and plays quite smoothly in online deathmatches.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKVOanvcZ-U&feature=related

Hill Billy features extensive normal mapping over its characters and environments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q9Pc0Fxh7c

2XL ATV Offroad presents highly detailed vehicles and a large variety of scenery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_1cMV9nb68

2XL Supercross displays a detailed course and runs a smooth frame rate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4jx12Ewjks&feature=related

Jet Car Stunts uses some radiosity/PRT to present very clean aesthetics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD3HezVwWIo

Real Racing is quite cinematic in presentation and shows off some nice car modeling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--2Z9Z1H-8

Another good looking game is Fastlane Street Racing with its high frame rate, plentiful track-side detail, and good lighting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JLeovWDiMU

I've been expecting PowerVR (assuming Apple wouldn't mind) and also Futuremark to release some demos/games to the App Store. That would seem like a perfect fit and a good showcase for their development teams.

 

[pjbliverpool]

Thanks for the tips, I'm downloading a couple of those now

 

[flynn]

Some of those games look fantastic. Makes me want to buy an iphone just to port my 3d engine to it.

 

[darkblu]

Hill Billy features extensive normal mapping over its characters and environments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q9Pc0Fxh7c

nice. that skinning-on-the-cpu though will remain a bottleneck for that technique forever. if only apple had provided the GL_IMG_vertex_program extension..

 

[Ike Turner]

I wonder how those compare (in terms of Sahder and polys) to the Electopia OpenGL GL ES 2.0 techdemo on Qualcomm's Snapdragon (rendered in 800x480):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkp-JrZY_8


http://www.southend.se/games/electopia/index.php

 

[Lazy8s]

Electopia defiintely compares favorably there. Bounce Evolution, demoed with OpenGL ES 2.0 on the N900, would be a more fitting comparison.

Apart from a few standard, basic shader experiments like an ocean waves demo and the like, I haven't seen much ES 2.0-specific footage people have yet been ready to show off for the iPhone 3G S's SGX535 @ 150MHz.

About Apple's disabling of the VGP assist for tangent space bump mapping: yeah, they've unfortunately reduced a perfectly good vertex shader unit to a very limited T&L unit.

I noticed that Firemint, the developers of Real Racing, are located in Melbourne. After witnessing their impressive game engine, I wouldn't be surprised if they employed some ex-Melbourne House staff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP8w9YYfj0Y

 

[Simon F]

About Apple's disabling of the VGP assist for tangent space bump mapping: yeah, they've unfortunately reduced a perfectly good vertex shader unit to a very limited T&L unit.

To be fair, some other manufacturers don't enable those extensions in ES 1.1 either.

I noticed that Firemint, the developers of Real Racing, are located in Melbourne. After witnessing their impressive game engine, I wouldn't be surprised if they employed some ex-Melbourne House staff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP8w9YYfj0Y

Ooh temporal aliasing.