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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:49 am
by Leadwerks
Oblivion and Unreal Engine 3 are much lower-tech renderers. I don't know why people gape at UE3, it is about as advanced as the Half-Life 2 Engine. They didn't follow through with any of the advanced features they promised in the preview videos.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:00 pm
by Rook Zimbabwe
Simple people simply amused by flash and nonsense...
Hi Leadwerks remember me from the B3D forums!
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:16 pm
by Saboteur
Many games need shader model 3.0... fallout 3, jericho, etc...
In the future, requirements will be higher.
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:10 am
by max_aigneraigner@web.de
nearly all current games need it..
Supreme commander, C&C 3..
is there a visible difference to shadermodel 2 or is it just a improved way of shader-programming?
oblivion for example looks really great but needs not that much high-end-power and technology (nowadays).^^
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:59 am
by Leadwerks
Shader model 2 lacks some crucial features like not being able to read from a depth buffer, not supporting multiple render targets, and probably some other stuff.
I'd personally like to raise the requirements to SM4, but I don't think we can do that for a while. Supporting SM3 does hold me back from implementing some new things.
Six months ago people said I was crazy for requiring SM3, but as soon as it became normal in games my requirement became pretty well accepted.
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:00 pm
by max_aigneraigner@web.de
maybe you coult make another separate version with sm4..?
[well.. maybe a little bit much work, supporting two engines..]
(isn't shadermodel 4 only supported on windows-Vista- DirectX10?)
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:46 pm
by Anonymous
@Leadwerks , hi , do you plan expanding your engine on Linux ?
if , no , but why ?
Thanks.
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:26 am
by Leadwerks
Probably not because my impression is that Linux users want everything to be free.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:37 pm
by Anonymous
no , if your product is clean and work fine , i am ready to buy. ( i have buy PureBasic ).
i can't traduce this ( i'm tired ) :
Au contraire , si votre Moteur 3D est facile d'accès , vous serez un pionner dans le domaine du développement amateur. cela incitera peu être plus de développeurs à développer sous cette plateforme.
Les utilisateurs Linux ne sont pas pour le "all is free" mais pour avoir un OS stable.
J'éspère un jour voir un portage ainsi qu'une démo tournant sous linux.