Direct64 v0.5.03.25

[Orkin]

Are there any disadvantages to be expected regarding version b? Additional graphic problems?

Otherwise why don't you suggest it to be used by all (Radeons, too) people?

There really isn't much disadvantage as half precision is still plenty for color blending, but GeForce FX users are probably the only ones that'll see much improvement since Radeons can handle floats in PSs much better, PS 1.x compile targets will likely compile down to using fixed point, and PS 3.0 targets can handle the floats without a problem.

I'll probably just leave it at half precision, as there is no discernable quality loss, and it will allow GeForce FX cards to run much better. Depending on how things go I might need more precision in the future though...(you can't do good per-pixel lighting, normal mapping, and parallax occlusion mapping in half precision)

[Jokke_r]

Got some new bugs for you,

i have v.25, not 25b and i have a radeon9800 pro with catalyst 5.3, Everything works splendid now, no more blinking widescreen edges nor blinking sky in mountain village in majoras mask. But this happens everytime after i'v looked into the bombers notebook (see pic) i always just save and close the rom and reload save when this happens. Also another problem which i don't have a pic for, but everytime in majoras mask when the clocksound starts counting down to night or morning, by every bell clang the screen grows smaller black edges appearing around the image in the top and left side while bottom and right side seems to somehow stretch out the screens last pixels all the way to the edge, this dissapears when the countdown is complete and the screen declaring night or day has appeared.

[Reznor007]

It won't matter at all on ATI hardware since Radeons can ONLY do full precision in the pixel shader. They don't support partial precision at all(nvidia was the one that wanted that one). If you choose to do partial precision, it will still do the same calculations as full precision.

Got some new bugs for you,

i have v.25, not 25b and i have a radeon9800 pro with catalyst 5.3, Everything works splendid now, no more blinking widescreen edges nor blinking sky in mountain village in majoras mask. But this happens everytime after i'v looked into the bombers notebook (see pic) i always just save and close the rom and reload save when this happens. Also another problem which i don't have a pic for, but everytime in majoras mask when the clocksound starts counting down to night or morning, by every bell clang the screen grows smaller black edges appearing around the image in the top and left side while bottom and right side seems to somehow stretch out the screens last pixels all the way to the edge, this dissapears when the countdown is complete and the screen declaring night or day has appeared.

The proper effect here is the game shrinks it's rendering window at each tone, leaving black borders around the edges.

[Noxious Ninja]

I'll probably just leave it at half precision, as there is no discernable quality loss, and it will allow GeForce FX cards to run much better. Depending on how things go I might need more precision in the future though...(you can't do good per-pixel lighting, normal mapping, and parallax occlusion mapping in half precision)

Dude. Awesome.

[olivieryuyu]

i can get correct coronas behavior with depth render with Jet Force Jemini

you're the first one to do it. congratulations

but afaik the game is likely with depth render option to hang and is still not playable so ...

[Trotterwatch]

Olivier, any chance you could upload a state of an area that does the coronas? (or if it's near the beginning let me know)

[olivieryuyu]

Olivier, any chance you could upload a state of an area that does the coronas? (or if it's near the beginning let me know)

just begin a new game and during the intro threre is coronas that are hidden when they should and that appears when they should too



Ps: after a while it hangs afaik

[Trotterwatch]

Ah, thanks a lot Not familiar with this game really.

Edit// Yep I can see them

[gandalf]

nice, jet force jemini now works fine!!!!!!
Only the shadows are missed (rice have the shadows working correctly)and i don´t see the coronas because i passed that part
The Frame Buffers effects works fine (when the player gets damaged, in rice you´ll see an black screen instead of the real effect in your plug-in (an red screen and in-game action)

[olivieryuyu]

it hangs with depth render so it's not perfect for the moment

hmm the hanging is due to the use of clear in n64 color image

without this the game is nice