PCI express and tS / Was: PCI Express - Semantics 2004-08-15 - By Laurence Wood
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I can't speak for how tS renders to disk files, however in our own software
and all the related applications of which I understand the inner worksings,
the graphics video card is required for rendering a scene graph to a file.
Complex transformation matrixes generated by the hardware graphics processor
are required to generate the rendered file. Many 3D high end molecular
modeling applications that I am familiar with will not work at all if there
is not a hardware graphics processing unit to support these types of file
operations.
Cheers,
Larry
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From: TSML [mailto:truespace@(protected)] On Behalf Of Emmanuel Asset
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 9:39 AM
To: truespace@(protected)
Subject: [TSML] PCI express and tS / Was: PCI Express - Semantics
Hi all,
I have read with interest the recent topics about PCI express and Roman's
posts about future PC hardware.
Actually, the video card is used for real-time rendering of the workspace's
scene. But when we press the render_to_file icon, it is the processor that
does the job.
Actually, the Pointersoft 3DeXplorer's real-time engine renders almost in
the same level of quality as tS's computed render. That engine envolves both
processor and video card chips.
With these new motherboards and PCIe video cards, can we expect in a close
future new versions of trueSpace able to render animations in almost real
time ?
Emmanuel
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