Not for release, only for the MMO. Maybe for some future engine, too. Nothing special with it except that it's made for very fast rendering. For all normal purposes, A7 is fast enough.

How about the shader-bones-animation features apparent in bones.fx. Are we going to see those soon?

Thanks,

Jibb

Problem is that the MMO renderer uses a different vertex format, with a different size of the vertex struct. That means most normal A7 plugins would crash when we implemented shader bones for A7. Also, a different kernel architecture is required for passing bones matrices to the shader. Maybe we could provide some special engine version for applications where shader bones are necessary.

Wow, okay. When I did my own (very limited) tests I used TEXCOORD1 to store an index for the bones (it only allowed one bone per vertex, and meant I couldn't use the second uv-set for anything else); I knew we'd need a slightly bigger vertex struct, but I had no idea the repercussions would be so big.

Really appreciate the effort, and wish there was something I could do!

Either way, I was stoked to see so many bones-animated models on-screen at a time, and was surprised to see each of those entities has 60 bones! That's a solid test as far as I'm concerned

Jibb

sounds fair, what do you guys plan to do about lighting? thats the major drawback right now, dont expect to see blocks being used for an rpg, so are you gonna bake lights or do something about model lighting in 3dgs?

if client want to save granny license why not give horde3d or ogre3d a try also?

- No one plans a change of the model lighting.

- We've looked into Ogre3D and Horde3D for avatar rendering, among other solutions, but found none suited for this purpose except for Granny. The other engines were mostly not fast enough, and had also other disadvantages.

CROWD: 30-32 FPS
TERRAIN: WITH LOT OF TREES 10-14 FPS WHIT LITTLE: 16-20 FPS

LAPTOP:
INTEL CORE 2 DUO T5760 2000 MHZ 4GB RAM
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 3470 VRAM 256 DEDICATED

Can we get some prerelease version of this renderer? Or is it only for A8?

Hiya.

Intel Quad Core2 Q9450 @2.66 (4 cores)
8GB DDR2
Radeon HD 4870 (512MB), running Catalyst 9.10
Windows 7 Pro (64-bit)

Crowd: 69 fps
Forest: 63 fps