I believe John Carmack is hoping to use voxels in id Tech 6. That engine's only 10 years away so who knows, this could be the future but we wont find out until we get there.
On 18 June 2010 17:26, Harry Pidcock <haz...@tpg.com.au> wrote: > Ray traced polygon rendering is quite an expensive task on a CPU. > > But real time point cloud rendering can be done on it quite well. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ATtrImCx4 > > Yes its a bit cheesy, but that's because Bruce Dell doesn't have a marketing > budget. > > > This video is rendered in real time on a single core CPU, although it is > only rendering at like 800x600, > if the algorithm had some parallelism, maybe even have it developed for > GPUs/hardware specialization. Then it would certainly be > able to render large amounts of detail at a higher resolution. > > Although it doesn't have any advanced shading, it is still quite interesting > to see such a complex static environment drawn with a single CPU thread. > > Of course there are huge computational and memory issues with bone > animation, shading, transparency etc. So don't think you will see this in > the next 5 - 10years. > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Jonathan Murphy" <nuclearfri...@gmail.com> > Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 12:31 AM > To: "Discussion of Half-Life Programming" <hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com> > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Source Engine 2!!! > >> Katrina, you might be interested in reading up on Real Time >> Raytracing, which is an alternative to rasterisation (GPU) based >> rendering and is/has been extensively researched and even implemented. >> >> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_(graphics) >> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_Wars:_Ray_Traced >> >> At the moment though it seems GPUs are going to stay very mainstream. >> >> On Saturday, June 19, 2010, joshua simmons <simmons...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Oh yeah I understand. There is only very rudmentry 3d support, in no way >>> capable of supporting any game. My point was more on the radical rate at >>> which they are evolving in comparison. Even the purely reverse engineered >>> open source NVIDIA driver is out doing the proprietary one in terms of >>> 2d. >>> Now I of course realise there is a big jump from that to capable 3d, but >>> considering (iirc) amd have developers working on the open source driver, >>> I >>> see it as mainly a matter of time before it becomes a viable alternative. >>> >>> On 18 Jun 2010 22:01, "Bob Somers" <magicbob...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Katrina, I'm not giving lectures on computer graphics here. Google has >>> all the information you asked for. If you'd like, I can also recommend >>> some graphics textbooks which would clear things up. Also, saying a >>> Linux system running on a 100 MHz machine is comparable to Windows >>> running on a 2 GHz machine is a ridiculous overstatement. They are not >>> that radically different. If you're so convinced you can make the >>> words best software renderer, by all means go do it. I'm sure at the >>> very least you can wave your SIGGRAPH paper in our faces when you're >>> done. >>> >>> Josh, I'm not sure you can call it better Linux support if their 3D >>> support is... well... really bad. They may have opened up their >>> hardware spec so that the free drivers can get rolling (I have tried >>> the new drivers in Fedora 13 and they are quite good so far), but the >>> free drivers are at least a year behind their Windows counterpart in >>> terms of supporting the full features of the cards. There is virtually >>> zero shader support in the free drivers at this point. nVidia's >>> drivers, on the other hand, may be proprietary, but at least you can >>> get decent 3D performance out of the machine on a current distro. The >>> proprietary ATI driver has decent support and performance, but it >>> won't run on anything newer than Fedora 11. (Sorry if I keep >>> referencing things in terms of Fedora versions, it's my distro of >>> choice.) >>> >>> I'm all for free software, don't get me wrong. I would love for >>> nothing more than to have free alternative drivers for ATI and nVidia >>> cards, but if gaming is really going to be commercially viable on the >>> Linux desktop it's the performance that matters. No publisher is going >>> to bother trying to ship a game for Linux where the poor driver >>> support is going to cause them support headaches all day long. >>> >>> --Bob >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:38 AM, joshua simmons <simmons...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Actually to be h... >>> >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>>> http://list... >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> > > > >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 9.0.829 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2945 - Release Date: 06/18/10 >> 04:35:00 >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
