[Bobboau]

this morning I integrated one of the newer technologys avalable on ATI cards, the result should be quite dramatic, but I'm not going to tell you what I did becase I want to see if you can tell on your own, this was just quickly hacked in (a grand total of five lines of code were changed) and I think it'll crash in game but it should work in the techroom, and if you don't have a fairly advanced radeon it probly won't work at all.

try it

and this will defenantly NOT be in 3.6

[Lightspeed]

trying this RIGHT NOW!!!1111oenoenone

[phreak]

what is it? i don't know if my 9000 will have it enabled

[Lightspeed]

It is ..... f*ing AWESOME!!

I'll test if this crashes in mission right away (it crashed when i clicked a briefing icon, theres flickery lines in some of the models.... but what I saw was just.... gr000000vy )





I didn't even know my Radeon 9800 could do such pretty stuff

Puhleeeaaaze get this bug fixed and working

[Lightspeed]

crashes in mission.

Displays the first frame okay, and then crashed.

[Vilkacis]

That's ATI's TruForm technology right? N-Patches or something...

[Lightspeed]

whatever it is.... look at that Ulysses cockpit!!!!

[phreak]

Originally posted by Vilkacis
That's ATI's TruForm technology right? N-Patches or something...

yea that looks like it.. figured that would be it since its radeon only

[J3Vr6]

So for people who don't have an ATI card or a newer ATI card, what is it that everyone is seeing?  Glowing cockpits?

[mikhael]

autopatched curves to smooth out segmentation in low poly models, j3vr6

[Lightspeed]

things look way smoother as if the poly count was increased significatly, although it is not.

--> great speed & looks

[Trivial Psychic]

Would this work with a 9600 Pro 128MB?

Later!

[phreak]

i thought it was anything above 8500.. which is odd since my 9000 doesn't have the GL extension for it, but 8500s do

[Col. Fishguts]

can this be done on a per-model-basis, or is it all or nothing ?
Cause I think some ships (i.e. Ursa, Herc) might look fubar with this.

[Vilkacis]

AFAIK the hardware support for this feature was taken out again in the 9000's series (not sure though). This feature does also work on non ATI boards, for example there's a little prog called FPS Optimizer for Morrowind that enables this technology for Radeons but it also works on nvidia boards, those just have no hardware support for it thus resulting in performance loss.

[Ashrak]

holy ****.......i need a radeon

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Ashrak
holy ****.......i need a radeon

[phreak]

Originally posted by Vilkacis
AFAIK the hardware support for this feature was taken out again in the 9000's series (not sure though). This feature does also work on non ATI boards, for example there's a little prog called FPS Optimizer for Morrowind that enables this technology for Radeons but it also works on nvidia boards, those just have no hardware support for it thus resulting in performance loss.

well apparently it works on bob's 9800

http://www.delphi3d.net/hardware/extsupport.php?extension=GL_ATI_pn_triangles

[adamnation]

Does Nvidia, or any other graphics cards, have a corresponding technology?

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by PhReAk


well apparently it works on bob's 9800
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it works on my 9800 too

and no, I think it's only for ATI cards. ATI owns.