Subject: Additive on Macs 2004-02-27 - By Barry Swan
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Cool though the effect is, it's hard enough to set up working on the PC,
so why not simply revert to another scenario in all macs?
Either that or have a 'configuration' screen the first time you start
the game (storing / reading from pref file) that puts up 3 or 4 of your
'best guesses' in individual 3D windows on-screen all at once, together
with what it should look like as a bitmap? If they are ordered according
to 'fastest to render' order, then you can just get people to click on
the earliest one that looks like the correct image, or obviously a 'nope
none match' option for where it doesn't work?
I know it's all a pain, but I really don't think you'll ever end up with
an invisible solution, and since you say you've already got a specific
option just for macs, why not go a bit further and try implementing
something like I suggest above, which is really the only way I can think
of that's both likely to support the most computers and make it easy on
both the developer and the player.
Actually, we could do with coming up with a 'standard' method of doing
this and make it available publically, that way everyone is working to
the same 'standard' (updated as required).
Let's face it, we'd all love to use additive lighting if we could!
Erm, not that I'm going to volunteer to write such a thing of course - I
have neither the time nor the knowledge, since I've only been skimming
the 'additive' threads, hoping to find something similar to:
'I've got it! Make additive work on 110% of all computers now and yet to
be created!'
Which obviously hasn't happened, and isn't likely too until we get a
proper update to the 3D xtra :(
Barry
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