[Bf-committers] Game Engine feature questions

[Alexander Ewering]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Erwin Coumans wrote:

> Here is a user-level description of the new graphics features:
> http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/blender/Blender.htm
> The features in the demos should look like this:
> http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/blender/2.41graphics_features.jpg

Hi,

I have a few questions regarding these updates:

1) In the description of the new features, there are lots of broken images
    (at least in my browser) which don't appear:

    http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/blender/BlenderFiles/0002.jpg
    http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/blender/BlenderFiles/0003.jpg
    http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/blender/BlenderFiles/0008.jpg

    Is this me, or does this happen for everyone?

    As such, sections Images, Mapping, World Types, Multiple Materials per
    Mesh and Blendo Toon Shader are unavailable so I can't comment on them.

2) For envmaps, do I have to re-arrange Blender's envmap to conform to
    OpenGL arrangement? This would be really cumbersome - it would be
    very easy for the GE to shuffle around the cubemap in memory to
    match the GL layout automatically.

3) Your demo image shows "Dynamic lighting". However, the game engine did
    *always* have per-vertex dynamic lighting. So I suppose the new thing about this
    is *per-pixel* dynamic lighting?

Thanks for the info (and checking the broken images ;),

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