a post the over day remind me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Ozvef7CvQ

jump to 26:40

I do not how to make a link to jump you to that pint.

Here's how to do the specific time thing, for future reference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Ozvef7CvQ&t=26m40s

Nice! But I don't think I'd want the game to calculate every micro asteroids impacting my hull, especially when I'm trying to lose enemy ships in the asteroid field.

Maybe in LT2?

Mordakai wrote:Here's how to do the specific time thing, for future reference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Ozvef7CvQ&t=26m40s

Thank you

I have already mentioned something of a more dynamic asteriod field. But alas there was no follow up on this point.

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The vertex shader is pretty awesome. I wonder if LT uses it.

Maddix wrote:The vertex shader is pretty awesome. I wonder if LT uses it.

LT, being a program that uses fairly modern OpenGL, uses vertex shaders extensively.
That being said I'm not sure how it applies to this particular topic. Culling does not occur in the vertex shader.

Katawa wrote:

Maddix wrote:The vertex shader is pretty awesome. I wonder if LT uses it.

LT, being a program that uses fairly modern OpenGL, uses vertex shaders extensively.
That being said I'm not sure how it applies to this particular topic. Culling does not occur in the vertex shader.

I think he meant tessellation

And LT does not use tessellation, sorry Don't want to target that level of hardware this time!

Isn't tessellation a graphics feature that is easy to switch of for those that doesn't have graphics card that can support it?

Or does it have something to do with linux/mac compatibility? I can imagine that could be a problem.

I think he meant tessellation

And LT does not use tessellation, sorry Don't want to target that level of hardware this time!

Woops! I have not a clue on what I'm talking about! I'm going to go read up on shaders before I look like a fool again. Thanks for the correction.

Ixos wrote:Isn't tessellation a graphics feature that is easy to switch of for those that doesn't have graphics card that can support it?

Or does it have something to do with linux/mac compatibility? I can imagine that could be a problem.

Tessellation is a hardware feature that requires extra work from the developer, in the form of more specialized shaders generally. Its intended use is mostly to save memory bandwidth, which means more model detail rendered at more fps. This is, often, only relevant if model quality is your bottleneck and you're suffering the choice of lower quality models or sustainable fps.
While you can use tessellation to lower the bandwidth of your models in general, freeing up card resources to be used elsewhere, you can't count on it because then if someone plays without a card that can hardware tessellate you've set your performance bar too high innately.

Essentially the cost vs benefit of hardware tessellation breaks down to: does the game benefit from higher model quality, often fragment/pixel shaders give the desired visual quality already, and what percentage of people have cards that support it VS the time required to make, test, and perfect, the necessary shaders.