[Anaz]

Originally posted by Rictor
so...whats wrong with that?
I mean, from a completely non-techincal point of view...

the implimentation wasn't 100%, IIRC, and even though you were rendering to a 64x64 texture, it's still another pass

[Rictor]

So in other words, it would drag down the frame-rates significantly, right?

[Taristin]

Halo 2 had this, it looked cool on the glowing parts of the Honor warriors...

[Deepblue]

It also shows up on specular spots.

[Bobboau]

the problem is that just rendering to a low res texture won't work.t needs to be properly blured, otherwise it will just look like a low res rendering.

[Fry_Day]

The best idea I've seen going about blurring it is drawing to the texture, using the card's auto-mipmap features, and drawing a bit of the lower level mipmaps too as a free blur. No pixel shaders.
Granted, it looks much worse than a true blur, but it works and looks okay.

[Liberator]

speaking of mipmapping, would it be possible to use mipmapping as a substitute LOD system?  I know in C&C: Renegade, the the models use only one texture map with 4 levels of mipmaps that have to be removed to be edited and then regenerated.

[Bobboau]

fry, I've tryed that method and I think it looks bad