Recent content by DaveB3D

You may be able to do some tesselation on the CPU at a decent speed. Just make sure you have hardware T&L for the rest. So in other words, you probably can.

You've got things a bit confused. 1) Bitboys came up with EMBM 2) Cube mapping is a form of enviroment mapping 3) You are referencing dot3 bump mapping To answer the basic question though, they both have advantages in different situations. Now I've not a lot of experiance with actually using...

Had to make a post.. couldn't help myself :)

I'm not saying what as I'm not one to give out competitors roadmaps.. However, I wouldn't take everything said there as being true. As for Beyond3D, it should be back soon. We came back up for about 2 days and then back down. Soon though, very soon.

Not entirely true..

Most people (at least anyone that I care about) here know me well enough to take my posts like that only half seriously.

Well I will honestly say good posts there. Hope to see more of *those* types of posts.

sigh.. Nam posts here now. This message board has officially taken a turn for the worse.

Honestly though, a GF2MX w/ 32 MG SDRAM would even show a noticeable performance upgrade over the V5 5500. That is dumb and wrong.

Rob, You are confusing fixed function and vertex shaders. GF2 is fixed function. As vertex shaders become more common, fixed function T&L will get less and less use. When a fixed function pipeline is there and no vertex shader and shaders are used, the fixed function unit shuts off and...

For any app that uses vertex shaders, the GF2 T&L unit shuts off... So as those apps become more and more common, it will be useless. That is why we were waiting to do T&L at 3dfx. Just do a vertex shader and not have a useless T&L unit.

That was just freelance. Though I have been offered full-time positions from others. btw, if anyone is wondering, the reason I was interested in work at Bitboys is that I was doing some contract work for them originally and so I knew what they were up to before hand....

I can't say how long.. I know how long, I just can't say it. :) So I think that is a positive thing though. Keep in mind that Bitboys is no longer the 3 person company they were for a VERY long time..

Ya'll just wait and see... just wait..

Well being that I work there now, I must have some confidence in our capabilities. :)