quote: Original post by DuranStrife
By the way, what kind of graphics card do you have again? I've only got a 32 MB GeForce 4(2), and I get about the same level of performance you described. (It tends to get pretty shaky when I haste my mage/cleric and begin constnatly flinging Fireballs at the fifty-odd undead attacking me.) If you have a 256 MB graphics card... wouldn't you get better performance than me? Just out of curiousity, you know.

Hehe, no it's not 256Mb, it's only 32Mb. 'GeForce 256' was the name of the original GeForce, aka the GeForce 1.

I think you may be right that the 2D stuff still has a place, but I think it is more for the players without state of the art hardware than for the developers - if you are using 3d renders as sprites, you still need to create the model for rendering, or else you have to draw every frame by hand, which is extremely tedious.



[edited by - Sandman on March 25, 2003 11:11:26 AM]