real time rendering 2004-02-01 - By Steven Newnham
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Sorry Shawn, but you are wrong - it is indeed rendered in real time. This is
an illustration of the power of programmable vertex and pixel shaders as
implemented in more recent graphics adaptors. Note that this isn't rendered
in trueSpace - it's a demo application you can download from ATI's website
and run on Radeon 9700 or later cards. Nevertheless, it is not stored,
pre-rendered images; the graphics adaptor is rendering in real time based on
scene geometry, textures, shader code, etc. By default the demo has a
predetermined animation path, but you can override that and manually rotate
and zoom, all in real time.
Steven Newnham
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> Poster: Shawn Bogart <sisix2@(protected)>
> Subject: Re: Real time rendering
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> Scene is pre-rendered. Were it to actually render all that
> glass in real time with an IBL (Image Based Light) like
> that, it wouldn't even come close to 1-2 minutes in
> trueSpace, let alone anything approaching real time. Were it
> able to do that in real time, then Hollywood wouldn't be
> spending big bucks on render farms to make movies. Sorry. But
> it is a very nice image. Shawn Bogart aka, SiSiX sisix@(protected)
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