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Subtestube · 10-03-04, 10:30 PM

"The X-ray DX9 render actually will have unified lightning just watch some of the DX9 indoor demos."

I actually don't know anything about the X-ray engine, but if you need DX9 level shaders to do unified light and shadow, you aren't as cool as the D3 engine, which can do it on anything with a stencil buffer. That's not to say that the D3 engine is actually superior to the X-ray engine - for all I know it's not. It's just that if you do need DX9 level effects to pull off your lighting scheme, your engine probably isn't as versatile as the Doom 3 one. As I say - for all I know the X-ray engine doesn't need DX9 to actually do the lighting, I'm just basing it on your post.

10-03-04, 10:30 PM	#15
Subtestube Anisymbolic Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wellington, New Zealand Posts: 1,365	Re: Quake Iv? "The X-ray DX9 render actually will have unified lightning just watch some of the DX9 indoor demos." I actually don't know anything about the X-ray engine, but if you need DX9 level shaders to do unified light and shadow, you aren't as cool as the D3 engine, which can do it on anything with a stencil buffer. That's not to say that the D3 engine is actually superior to the X-ray engine - for all I know it's not. It's just that if you do need DX9 level effects to pull off your lighting scheme, your engine probably isn't as versatile as the Doom 3 one. As I say - for all I know the X-ray engine doesn't need DX9 to actually do the lighting, I'm just basing it on your post. __________________ Dr Possible: Core 2 Duo E6400 on Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4. Galaxy GeForce 7600GT. 2GB Corsair XMS 2 DDR2-6400 RAM (CL5). ATi Theatre 550 Pro. Windows XP MCE. All stored in Piano black Antec Sonata II, with a broken door. Mobile: ASUS M2400N, Pentium M 1.5 GHz. 512 MB DDR RAM. Intel EXTREME graphics. Windows XP SP 2 / Ubuntu 5.10. Ridiculous DOES not have an 'e' in it. It comes from "ridicule" and has less than nothing to do with the colour red.