An idea to N64 games enhacement: TruForm

[Trotterwatch]

Great work Damn shame this couldn't have been done in hardware (though you did explain the reasons why earlier - ie uberbloating of things).

Does look mighty fine though.

 

[Djipi]

Nvidia and ATI works with this new option?

 

[neo64]

ähm... Orkin, how did you do that? Have you programmed another plugin or how does it work? Where is it available and how can I get it running?

 

[MuhMuh]

Will that work with a Nvidia-Geforce card?

 

[_pm_]

Great work, Orkin!!!! It looks awesome :bouncy:

 

[gandalf]

holly sh*t!

nice work orkin!!!

 

[zorbid]

ub3r l33t

Could it be combined with the cel shader?

:drool:

 

[Kolano]

To the folks above with NVidias, you'll note Orkin specifically says "TRUFORM enabled" (i.e. this will be ATI only).

 

[Orkin]

To the folks above with NVidias, you'll note Orkin specifically says "TRUFORM enabled" (i.e. this will be ATI only).

Actually, even though it uses ATI's algorithm (based off an example program they put out), it's all done in software so it'll work on anything. Assuming you have a fast enough CPU to handle what was originally intended to be done on a GPU...

 

[xenSity]

That is a pretty cool feature.
It is too bad that the geometry is so strange that it can't be done in GPU.
If there was a way to convert the data to something that the GPU could handle to sort of stage or spread the load a bit... Not sure if it would be any faster or even possible.

It's at least something worth wondering about. As it is now, it looks nice.

 

[Federelli]

Check out Link's Master Sword handle, looks fat . Nice going on mario's head though.

 

[Talbain]

I know I splurged. It looks good. The geometry of the N64 must be very strange though... of course, we're trying to work at it from an emulation standpoint... so it may just be that the architecture is still misunderstood, although... that would seem pretty far-fetched considering what emulation is currently doing with the N64 wouldn't it? Yeah, I like ellipses. That Mario pic's very impressive though, not to mention promising.

 

[Orkin]

I've heavily modified and optimized ATI's original code and the speed is much better now. Unfortunately to get decent speed I had to lock it at only quadrupling the triangle count, where ATI's implementation could do different "levels" of tesselization, but it's still a decent quality boost.

I also fixed the gap problem, so now I just need to figure out how to keep it from bloating things like terrain, boxes, bridges, and the like. Looks like this may turn into a usable option afterall!

 

[Talbain]

Keep up the awesomeness Orkin. =)

 

[ryanraab]

I just want to say this is awesome but I use Rices plugin. So I hope Rice and you work together to get this on Rices plugin too. :happy:

 

[DeathFox007]

Great, all we need now is for Jabo to come back and make a sound plug-in that can replace the sounds. =)

 

[Doomulation]

Nooo... that's azimer's job =)
Azimer is the most sound experienced developer 'round here... I suppose.

 

[TS_Death_Angel]

Can't wait to try this out Keep up the good work

 

[cooliscool]

Orkin once again r0x0rz my b0x0rz..

 

[Archnemon]

Good work!Awesome! And it is based on my idea :happy:

I dont know about Nvidia N-Patches, but TruForm is designed to draw the maps and textures correctly...is logical.

I hope that this can be use in all games, or at less, in most N64 games...


NT: My english is really "good"? :blush: