z-buffer accuracy: 16bit or 24bit?

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Re: z-buffer accuracy: 16bit or 24bit? #11904 02/21/03 05:35 02/21/03 05:35
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ventilator OP Senior Expert Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,441	but isn't there a kind of bounding box for the z-buffer like the view volume / frustum (which is defined by the clip_range as far as i know)?

Re: z-buffer accuracy: 16bit or 24bit? #11905 02/21/03 08:38 02/21/03 08:38
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ventilator OP Senior Expert Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,441	with a little tweaking of camera.arc and the position and angle of the camera (it will be a 3rd person game so i can play with the camera's freedom of movement) i was able to reduce the effect to a minimum...

Re: z-buffer accuracy: 16bit or 24bit? #11906 02/21/03 10:47 02/21/03 10:47
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Anonymous Unregistered A	A nice layer of fog might help hide it too.

Re: z-buffer accuracy: 16bit or 24bit? #11907 02/21/03 22:21 02/21/03 22:21
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ventilator OP Senior Expert Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,441	fog is a good idea!

Re: z-buffer accuracy: 16bit or 24bit? #11908 03/09/03 06:37 03/09/03 06:37
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chumprop Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 280 VA	Yeah, I get this same problem... it happened when I updated to the newest version of a5... it was fine before :-( Any other ideas on how to solve this? -Thanks!!! I love math!

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