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Game/Engine Differences Between Diaspora and BtRL

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DaBrain:
Well, in terms of the graphic engine, things also moved on since the BtRL demo.
While the demo was still using a fixed-function render pipeline and T&L, the first release of Diaspora will be using pixel and vertex shaders.

This should illustrate the difference:

Fixed function:


Shader model 3.0:

FraktuRe:
Shiny!

FUBAR-BDHR:

--- Quote from: Shade on October 26, 2008, 06:59:28 am ---Dedicated servers (called standalone servers in this case) are working now, thanks to Karajorma sinking a lot of programmer-hours into fixing them. Which, of course, means that the problem of 'host advantage' is a thing of the past whenever you use them.

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Don't forget about Taylor.  He's put quite a bit of work into both FS2netD and the standalones in the last couple of weeks too.  Between the 2 of them the standalones are actually pretty stable.  I'm actually getting fewer crashes with the standalones then just hosting.   

karajorma:
Taylor's been working on multiplayer in general. Wanderer helped me get the other big issue with standalones working as well. :)

Like much of the SCPs work it's been a team effort :)

Snagger:

--- Quote from: DaBrain on October 26, 2008, 08:33:02 am ---Well, in terms of the graphic engine, things also moved on since the BtRL demo.
While the demo was still using a fixed-function render pipeline and T&L, the first release of Diaspora will be using pixel and vertex shaders.

This should illustrate the difference: (deleted photos)


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Wow.  Reading the post, I saw the fist picture and thought it was pretty impressive, before realising that was the "before" picture, with the "after" following it.  It's stunning.

I have no idea how the multi-player aspect will work because I have never tried palying on the net before (and currently can't do so with the BtRL demo beacause firstly, I have no firewall (I'm hoping my wife will set one up because I don't know how to), and secondly, because I have no idea of how to play online either.  I'm not what you lot would consider "computer literate", and will probably need a lot of hand-holding when it comes down to installing and running this game.  I apologise in advance!

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