Why I'm not waiting for the G800 (or what else) to come

[Drizzt]

'Cause I've seen a Vertex Skinning Demo running in hardware on my G400.

Hey, NDA's boys, just a question if you can answer (or, if you can, it's the same): will Matrox deliver a new version of the driver that will unleash it's real power?

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Italian Guy, Bad English

D'ya want an Italian version?

[Wombat]

I think I have this straight:
Vertex skinning isn't very hard. I'm pretty sure my G400 does it, and that the results show in the models for CounterStrike 1.0. It's Matrix Skinning that's nastier.

[Ali]

Where did you get this demo?

If it ran on your G400, are you sure it wasnt a software hack? I would assume you would need drivers that support it for it to work in hardware. I would be very suprised if the G400 had hardware support for it.

Then again, Matrox could have written special drivers that uses the WARP engine to do Vertex Skinning instead of triangle setup so they could do R&D on the technique.

Ali

[Ali]

Strange. Wombats reply didnt show up when I read this, and it was posted 15 minutes before mine.

Ali

[Surfwienix]

it doesn't run on my g400!!!


I)"could not load required media.

switching to a reference rasterizer,
a software device that implements the entire
direct3d feature set, but runs very slowly."

II)"could not load required media.

this sample will now exit."

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>> Surfwienix <<

My System:

AMD K6-2/400 non-o/c
Epox MVP3C-M Super7 (VIA 4.24)
128MB SDRAM(PC100), CAS2
Matrox Millennium G400 MAX
(Driver Package 6.50.008 + DX 8.0a) AGP2x/256MB @IRQ11(not sharing) non-o/c
Terratec DMX Sound-System
20,4GB Maxtor HDD (UDMA33)
6,4GB Maxtor HDD (UDMA33)
ASUS 50x-CDROM (UDMA33)
Realtek 8019 Ethernet (ISA)
Creatix HAM V.90 Modem
19" Monitor CTX-VL950T (95khz)
21" HP A4033A (2nd Display)
Windows 98SE (IE 5.5)

[Nuno]

Just copy canada.bmp from \media to \direct3d\simpleskinflag vs folder

[Drizzt]

Surfwienix, do what Nuno says if you want it works.

Or...just copy a BMP file to the directory of the executable and name it Canada.bmp
Have Fun ^_^

[NetSnake]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Wombat:
I think I have this straight:
Vertex skinning isn't very hard. I'm pretty sure my G400 does it, and that the results show in the models for CounterStrike 1.0. It's Matrix Skinning that's nastier.</font>

I think he is right, this demo is working on both the G400 AND the TNT in HAL mode... and if the TNT can do that with decent speed even in full screen then it can't be that hard

[NetSnake]

Also, u can replace canada.bmp with any other bmp

my gf looks really good on a flag

[Surfwienix]

got it working. but there's nothing special with this demo. very simple. could be done by my olt ati mach64.

[xortam]

V

[Drizzt]

Surfwienix, that was done in Hardware.
I'll look to improve it when I'll finish to download the DX8 DevKit.

[Surfwienix]

Go on, Drizzt!!! ;-)