Displacement Mapping.

[Jutai]

i was talkin to my friend about DM and he is goin to school for 3d animation and he said the technique was similar to something they do and he was impressed they have developed it he said it works very well and is easy to impliment. I mean it's pretty simple from what i can see you just make a map using grayscale tones to designate hieghts apply the mask and the processor does the rest

[Sinistral]

- Just to add. "Software Displacment Mapping and Adaptive Tesselation" have been in a couple games i have played. Meaning there is already great interest in the techniques. A couple games being; Giants: Citazen Kabuto. Which had "Character Adaptive Tesselation". The further you moved away from the character, the model was replaced by a lower polygon count version. And the "Displacment Mapping" can sorta be compared to the landscapes in Black & White. They flatened and reduced polygon count the further you moved away from them.
So, IMO there is no doubt that more developers will adopting these very nice techniques. -

And the quotes meaning, that it was only an observation. And i am only comparing the two . -

[Wombat]

<I>Giants</I> may have had different models according to distance, but it didn't adjust according to your system. Requiem did - it throttled the game engine to always keep your system at maximum load. Black & White might have actually done things correctly as well - I'd never seen it perform poorly (actual playability/enjoyment excluded).

[MK]

Joel - thanks for the pics! One of them is my desktop background now until something better is available.

Where are our graphic magicians ??

MK

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