Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 07:36:13 05/11/02
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On May 10, 2002 at 18:30:01, John Merlino wrote: >On May 10, 2002 at 10:18:23, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On May 10, 2002 at 01:08:05, Tina Long wrote: >> >>>John sent me 2 screenshots showing fullscreen (approx 930pixels square) 2D Sets. >>>They look excellent. >>>I withdraw all my concerns about the size of the boards & pieces, & look forward >>>to the release of CM9k. >>> >>>Thanks John, >>>Tina Long >> >>Are they smoothly resizable? > >Totally. On-the-fly. > >There are many different levels of complexity regarding our boards and piece >sets, obviously. Some have very low poly counts, such as simple "faceted" sets >for users who have low-end cards. Even at full-screen 1280x1024, on an old >NVidia RIVA TNT 2 card (which is pre GeForce and probably close to five years >old) these sets are getting about 30 FPS (with one engine running -- 40 with no >engines). And the most complex boards/sets are getting about 15 FPS (with one >engine running -- 20 without). That is also with no reflections on the board, as >that card does not support stencil buffering (I'll bet THAT term has never >showed up on this board before!) > >On our top-of-the-line Radeon 8500 cards, however, get about 50 FPS on the most >complext boards (with one engine running and board reflections). > >And, of course, using the "flat" sets (designed for users who like 2D setups) >are usually even faster, because the models for the pieces are generally less >complex. At 800x600 full-screen, the less complex boards/pieces get well over >100 FPS with no engines running. > >It really is beautiful. Honestly, I wish that E3 wasn't coming up and we could >put some screenshots on the website. <sigh> Soon.... > >jm So, bottom line, you were able to get smoothly resizable 2D (flat) boards/pieces. That's great!! The fact that you did it without using TrueType characters for the pieces is interesting too, but to my small brain what you did seems much more difficult -- I guess it's because the result looks nicer?
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