It is meant for GameStudio, this is why people says it sounds tusc.

it sounds a bit like sylex to me, it also replaced the whole grafic engine of GS....

Actually you can mix DirectX 9 and 10 if you take out all DX9 render specific stuff and replace it with a DX10 external engine. Seems like a huge task though.

Yes, you will be able to run the Directx10 shaders with Gamestudio.

"Actually you can mix DirectX 9 and 10 if you take out all DX9 render specific stuff and replace it with a DX10 external engine. Seems like a huge task though. "

And yes, it is a HUGE task, that is why it will take some time.

The question that remains for me and (I think) a few others is WHY you decided to make it axcusively DX10 when a lot of people here don't have and want Vista.

Exactly my point cartoon_baboon! Why exclude us?

Don't want to be the nerd "who knows it better", but I wanna correct some terms in your postings (don't wanna be offending - just to make things more clear )

The "Depth of Field Shadow" and "Area Shadows" are different concepts of 3D Rendering Software Packages (like 3ds max, which I use).

What you mean with those "DOF Shadows" are in fact "Area Shadows" - in reality a Shadow (even with a high contrast lightsource like our sun) is blurring out as it spreads more and more away from the shadow casting object. This is a cool but render expensive effect (which can be faked with some shadowmap grid in 3ds max; or real Area Shadows used by raytracing algorythms) - if it runs pretty fast with your system, then it's worth a try.

Depth of Field Shadows or "blurry shadows" are shadows which are blurred through this DOF Effect in a correct manner (which they don't actually because the DOF Effect is a posteffect they need a bit more treatment). And: this relys also to reflected shadows (by metal reflections or other stuff like this) - this requieres Material ID's in 3ds max (but max is a bit weird ).

The Glitch Shader (as you call it) in 3D graphics (again 3ds max) is composed out of a texture, a procedural mixmap and another texture (or procedural map... or a procedural map mixed with textures or procedurals mixed with procedurals and then mixed with textures a.s.o.). It's actually called a "dirt map" - which is not the same like a detailmap.

Those are the concepts of 3d rendering as I experienced them... I pressume that you are checking the inner cores of those rendertechnologies frequently, to construct your own shader - at least this would help you a bit more, getting this tool achieved.

Greetings
Tristan

hey there..
Ive had VISTA on my comp- for MONTHs now
and i have been working on 3dgs stuff with it
and it runs VERY smoothly and NEVER crashes
I have 2 meg of RAM and that leaves me PLENTY for EVERYTHING
that VISTA does PLUS all the programs I use also.
I run cakewalk SONAR on iot also for my music and sound effects
and it too runs perfectly.
all i did was set it all up to run like XP
which takes about 1 hour....
SO....If you know what your doing around comps a bit
its really no biggy.
MOST of teh complainsts about VISTA are
rumours and innuendo...VERY few actually that have TRIED it
just people saying " my buddy tried VISTA and it ate his firstborn
ands stuff like that....the exact same gobbly-gook
we heard about XP years ago too.

Hey,
yeah i understand that some of you don't want to use Vista but im not going to leave you guys out! I will share some DirecX9 shaders soon. However, i am experimenting with the geometry shader exclusive to Dx10 and... WOW. It is just so much more powerful. Also, my goal is to provide you guys with FREE next-gen graphics, which, unfortunatley, demands the power of DirectX10.

-Also, how do you post new images in the thread? its really confusing :(-
nevermind, found it

Anyway, for those of you who don't have Vista, you are still in for some goodies.

-Michael-

I have installed Vista and tried it. There is no mistake its a resource hog. I have and Intel Dual Core 2.8 with 4 Gig ram and it left me 1.5 gig to run program with!!!! What does and OS need that much RAM for??? And why should I spend 1 hour setting it up like XP when I can install XP and guess what, it runs like XP.