[Bobboau]

you could do that easily.

[Nuke]

just out of curiousity what are the video card requirements on getting this to actually work. it doesnt work at all on my geforce4mx420.  my caps file is at www.game-warden.com/nukemod-cos/nukesd3dcaps.txt

[Bobboau]

about the only thing you need for this that you wouldn't on anything else is state blocks, but that should be abstracted by d3d for cards that don't have hardware suport

[Omniscaper]

Damn, Starshatter just jumped to a DirectX 9 engine with full bump-mapping support. I have faith that Bob's material achievements will pave the way for FSO to re-establish its past and rightfull place in "graphics" superiority.

[Bobboau]

I'm quite confedent, that when I am done, our graphics engine will make there colective e-penises shrivelup and fall off.

[Flaser]

AFAIS it will do a lot more.

That disco-station already showed the freaky things the material system will let you do. Finally you'll have full control over the skin of any craft - though most will only use the pre-created materials, eventually material modders will emerge as well.

Beside graphics is one thing - full mod support and tools to port anything into is another! An so far I'm yet to see another game as modable as FS Open.

[Turambar]

so will we have DX9 support?

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Bobboau
I'm quite confedent, that when I am done, our graphics engine will make there colective e-penises shrivelup and fall off.

Hell, yeah!

I'm going to learn writing custom shaders.


@Turambar
Positive.  

[Bobboau]

well actualy the DX9 switch will probly come after I get shaders wich will come after I get the materials system done, wich will be at least two more months. and after we switch to DX9 I'll have to alter some of the materials stuff (add options).

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Bobboau
well actualy the DX9 switch will probly come after I get shaders wich will come after I get the materials system done, wich will be at least two more months. and after we switch to DX9 I'll have to alter some of the materials stuff (add options).

We aren't switching to DX9, remember.  Not without conditional compilation anyway.

[redmenace]

Can we move this part of the thread into the internal please.

[Goober5000]

It already is in the internal.  But I had to clarify the issue so that the forum regulars will know that we haven't switched gears on them.

Further discussion can and should go in the internal, though.

[FireCrack]

Blasted isolationism

[Flaser]

To code or cope that's the question.

[Raptor]

Okay, would someone please tell me what this is all about, in plain english?

I tried to follow the course of this thread, but all these technical terms and CPU speak have me confused:confused::dizzy:

[Bobboau]

purdy colors

[redsniper]

Basically, bump maps, normal maps, and all kinds of other cool graphical goodies are on the way.

[Bobboau]

that's a bit down the line still, I need to get this done so you have enough controle over what's going on to be able to make effective use of shaders.
when this is done, and then has shaders (im going to get both pixel and vertex at the same time) you still won't have bump mapping, but you will have the ability to make bump mapping, so were on the first (and biggest) of the final three steps.

when this is done though, it'll be a ground breaking new era in modability by it's self.

[FireCrack]

^And, best yet, shinemaps on ATI !

[Flaser]

I wonder if there's any other game out there offering the same modability as FS_Open will.

The only stuff that even compares is stuff from Blizzard (WC3 ie.), and the Unreal Engine(! - direcly made for development so...).