interesting rendering problem...

cpu · 2002-08-06T07:05:45

Hi all! I'm currently working on a game that is basically a 2D-type space shooter, but it has 3D-models and effects. Some of the very basic OpenGL initialization code is from the NeHe codebase. The rendering problem shows up on my friend's gf4 ti4200 card, but not on my good-old Geforce1 DDR (both WinXP). If you look at the ship model (rendered using display list) from far away, you'll notice nothing, but as you zoom in, some polygons start to fade to grey and back to 'normal lighting'. It's very hard to notice in an image, but compare these two pictures: This is how it should look like. Here you can see some dark spots that should not be present. There is also a color anomaly on the asteroids in this jpg. Thanks for any help... If anyone needs the program to test it, I'll post an URL for downloading. bye, cpu [edited by - cpu on July 19, 2002 10:26:11 AM] [edited by - cpu on July 19, 2002 10:26:27 AM] [edited by - cpu on July 19, 2002 10:27:44 AM]

DDSquad

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August 02, 2002 09:29 AM

A LOT of people still have win 98. A developer''s ideal is to meet the consumer''s needs. so I am glad that you will try to support win 98. You can''t expect people to upgrade their system for possibly hundreds of dollars to run your game. Many gamers keep win 98, becuase too many ames do not support NT. I was shocked and dismayed when Myst 3: Exile, Madden 2001, and Star Wars Rouge Squadron didn''t run on my XP machine. Thank God I still have a drive with 98 on it.

-------------------------------------------------------BZZZZTT - CRASH - BANG"What was that?!""Captain, it appears that we have encountered a strange sub-space anomaly. I'm getting a high reading of tracheons beams. The anomaly seems to be some kind of rift in the space-time continuum. -- Never mind, Bones was just using the microwave again."

davepermen

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August 02, 2002 10:50 AM

ddsquat, actually we got yet every game running on winxp with the compatibility modes.. no problems here so far..

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DDSquad

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August 03, 2002 10:26 AM

I eventually got many of the games working on XP with compatablity modes, game patches, and other compatablity programs. However I haven''t gotten them to work on 2000. Driver seems to run decently on 2000, but the music is all screwed up. I wish I could play Worms Armageddon on 2000 that was an awesome game.

-------------------------------------------------------BZZZZTT - CRASH - BANG"What was that?!""Captain, it appears that we have encountered a strange sub-space anomaly. I'm getting a high reading of tracheons beams. The anomaly seems to be some kind of rift in the space-time continuum. -- Never mind, Bones was just using the microwave again."

cpu

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August 03, 2002 01:19 PM

Did anyone test my current program under win98? What does it do now? So, what am I doing wrong?

Besides, does anyone know a tutorial about collision detection with 2 ellipsoids colliding? I found everything except this. A generic theory used in spacesims would be nice

Thanks,
cpu

DDSquad

122

August 04, 2002 08:56 PM

sorry, can''t open rar files. Got a zip?

-------------------------------------------------------BZZZZTT - CRASH - BANG"What was that?!""Captain, it appears that we have encountered a strange sub-space anomaly. I'm getting a high reading of tracheons beams. The anomaly seems to be some kind of rift in the space-time continuum. -- Never mind, Bones was just using the microwave again."

cpu

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August 05, 2002 05:24 AM

quote:
Original post by DDSquad
sorry, can''t open rar files. Got a zip?

Have you ever heard of the beautiful windows command-line tool rar32?

Never mind, I already recompressed it for you, happy testing.

cpu

davepermen

1,047

August 05, 2002 07:04 AM

have you ever heard of winrar? rightclick on the file to rar it or to unrar it

and yes, it works bether than winzip

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DDSquad

122

August 05, 2002 09:05 AM

can I get your new zip by following the old link, or what?

edit: I will search for this winrar

[edited by - DDSquad on August 5, 2002 10:06:34 AM]

-------------------------------------------------------BZZZZTT - CRASH - BANG"What was that?!""Captain, it appears that we have encountered a strange sub-space anomaly. I'm getting a high reading of tracheons beams. The anomaly seems to be some kind of rift in the space-time continuum. -- Never mind, Bones was just using the microwave again."

cpu

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August 06, 2002 07:05 AM

quote:
Original post by DDSquad
can I get your new zip by following the old link, or what?

edit: I will search for this winrar

You can get a directory listing at http://ejg.homeip.net/~poka/
That''s all. Then download whatever you want...
I''m going to implement collision detection using spheres. Ellipsoids were too complicated.

interesting rendering problem...

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