Posted By: ulf
to shade or not to shade? - 09/03/05 08:14
hi there,
from reading the shaders forum i learned one special thing: shaders dont work with every video card.
as game developer my goal is to make my game available to a lot of people. but if i have a highend killershader that doenst apply anymore. only those with the latest 3d-hardware will be able to play the game and that tightens my audience.
so why should we implent shaders? just to make it look good for ourselves? take the cartoon shader for example. it lets you save a lot of work - but on the other hand it doesnt work for many people.
not everyone has the latest 3d - hardware.
btw. is there any way to dont use a shader if the engine detects no pixelshader?
even if that would work, the game would look ugly for those who dont have a good enough card.
iam really, really unsure if i should start implenting some nice looking shaders to eyecandy-up my game. i fear that once its ready it works only for 50% of the grapic cards.
when the shader works with my card and looks good, it may be possible that the same shaded model looks totally ugly and out of place on my friends graphics card - thats what i saw here a lot in the forums...
iam especially unsure if i should use a cartoon shader or not.
it would help me and others too i think if we could discuss a bit on that matter.
regards, -utz
from reading the shaders forum i learned one special thing: shaders dont work with every video card.
as game developer my goal is to make my game available to a lot of people. but if i have a highend killershader that doenst apply anymore. only those with the latest 3d-hardware will be able to play the game and that tightens my audience.
so why should we implent shaders? just to make it look good for ourselves? take the cartoon shader for example. it lets you save a lot of work - but on the other hand it doesnt work for many people.
not everyone has the latest 3d - hardware.
btw. is there any way to dont use a shader if the engine detects no pixelshader?
even if that would work, the game would look ugly for those who dont have a good enough card.
iam really, really unsure if i should start implenting some nice looking shaders to eyecandy-up my game. i fear that once its ready it works only for 50% of the grapic cards.
when the shader works with my card and looks good, it may be possible that the same shaded model looks totally ugly and out of place on my friends graphics card - thats what i saw here a lot in the forums...
iam especially unsure if i should use a cartoon shader or not.
it would help me and others too i think if we could discuss a bit on that matter.
regards, -utz