The next big thing in 3D acceleration?

[TheMorg]

I hear that there's a new game called Outcast that kicks some serious bottom (sorry, I'm British) in the graphics department, without using 3D acceleration.

A clever combination of polygons and voxels seems to do the trick. Perhaps voxel-acceleration will be the Next Big Thing?

I don't think 'voxels in hardware' can be taken seriously unless it can be given a silly technical title for their support in DirectX 27. I believe this forum should campaign for a name obscure enough to be passed over by other chipset manufacturers, so that Matrox can get a head-start. They seem to need it with card delays (hehehe).

Personally, I'd suggest the following:

"Environmentally Friendly Eco-Warrior Environment Mapped Voxel Mapped Undulating Bumpy Voxel Maps".

Any other suggestions?

[SteveC]

For the next best thing in the 3d (mentions voxels) go to thresh's firinsquad site. On there there's a new article about all that.

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Cheers,
Steve
It's Only A Graphics Card!
(But a damn good 'un!)

[TheMorg]

Well, I was only kidding... but if there's actually something happening, what's the URL to this firinsquad site?

I already tried "www.firinsquad.com"

Thanks

Tim

[Thumper]

Try this Tim,
http://www.firingsquad.com/




Bruce

[Himself]

I'd take that article with a grain of salt, for one thing NVIDIA is backing down on the NV10 == T&L angle, (expect the same kind of timeframe as you saw for the G200 ICD ), and the rest of the pack aren't saying much.

A 400MHz video card with more power than a K7 600 for how much money?!