should i make it in dx or openglide !! vote now!!!

**lightknight** · February 7th, 2002, 05:47

it's up to u the people!!!!!

**Teamz** · February 7th, 2002, 05:55

you should step back and consider coding the CPU at the very first eheh

**gokuss4** · February 7th, 2002, 05:56

even though i dont have an opengl card, i suggest using opengl since it does the most and also because you need a lot of power to emulate the gamecube, so go for opengl, or you CAN try dx but i would still say opengl.

**lightknight** · February 7th, 2002, 06:02

to....but i heard that dx is faster than opengl, so now i am thinking 1 of each. but still , i wonder if opengl and dx can be used with each other??

**Eddy** · February 7th, 2002, 06:11

dx isnt faster than ogl

**gokuss4** · February 7th, 2002, 08:19

yeah plus voodoo3 cant really support opengl and if you create a gamecube plug-in on a voodoo3 it will really be low tech, so i suggest someone who has a geforce 3 at the least or geforce 2 ultra to code a gamecube graphics plug-in in opengl because opengl has more graphics options plus a geforce 2 ultra/3 has more graphics support for like stuff here are the graphics specs for gamecube when i post them in my next post.

**gokuss4** · February 7th, 2002, 08:24

Fog, Subpixel Anti-aliasing, 8 Hardware Lights, Alpha Blending, Virtual Texture Design, Multi-texturing, Bump Mapping, Environment Mapping, MIP Mapping, Bilinear Filtering, Trilinear Filtering, Anisotropic Filtering, Real-time Hardware Texture Decompression (S3TC), Real-time Decompression of Display List, HW 3-line Deflickering filter

thats it plus a voodoo3 only has 16-bit z buffer and 16-bit color support while a gamecube has 24-bit color and 24-bit z-buffer support.

plus the gamecube can produce from 6-million to 12-million polygons per second

6 million to 12 million polygons/second (Peak) (Assuming actual game conditions with complex models, fully textured, fully lit, etc.)

so i suggest using a geforce 2 gts 32/64mb ddr at the least to code a gamecube try a geforce 3 ti though.

**Reznor007** · February 7th, 2002, 09:20

You need something beyond the level of a Geforce4 or Radeon8500 to do everything the Gamecube can do.

A Voodoo3 would not be able to run it very well at all. Just look at how it fares on N64 emulation.

And Gamecube can do around 15-20 million polygons in a realistic game, Nintendo was being very conservative with the specs.

**Reznor007** · February 7th, 2002, 09:23

Oh yeah, Gamecube uses a modified version of OpenGL, so that would be your best bet.

**Zero** · February 7th, 2002, 17:35

I agree with Reznor007 on this matter.
The GC does use a modified version of OpenGL so I guess that would make it the best choice.

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i got a voodoo3 3000 i thought of makeing a gfx plugin for the emulatore program

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