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Landscape Studio problems

Started by ema Apr 4, 2001 at 3:12 AM 4 replies 250+ views

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Apr 4, 2001 at 3:12 AM

Hi everybody, I tried LS using G400/G450/G400Marvel with PIII and Athlon CPUs and have the same problems: when load a BSP file the visualization is very bad if I''m so close to BSP model. The same problem in the SimpleLand example. Is this a bug or a problem of my configuration? Moreover I really don''t understand what I need to insert in a NEW lanscape level in order to load it in the SimpleLand example. I insert both a player and a spawn and copied the ENGINE.DAT in the same level directory, but the example contunes to crash! What I forgot? Thanks, bye, ema. PS.: I''m quite new using PR, and I think it''s wonderfull. I''m from Italy. Bye.

Stenis

Apr 4, 2001 at 9:17 AM

Hi

I have the same problems and I think it is that if you don’t have T&L on your 3d card the simpleland demo don’t work. Even if you don’t use any BSP objects. Is this correct Chris or is it a bug? Se the below PR4/FAQ.

PR4 FAQ/Common mistakes
Q) Simpleland and/or BSPView show a garbled mess.
A) These were designed for hardware T&L only. Currently if you try to use hardware T&L without a capable card you''ll be drawing
untransformed vertices. Disabling the D3D pipeline will not make the BSP routines use software rendering. You can make your own levels that use a small visibility and no BSP''s and use them with SimpleLand.
Q) Why do I need a T&L card to view BSP''s?
A) The BSP routines were optimized to use vertex buffers, which
I currently only use with hardware T&L. I believe I can make PR use vertex buffers for the regular software pipeline in the future.

/Stenis

Gorky

Apr 13, 2001 at 2:08 PM

Hey Chris,
I too experienced this problem.
Is this planed to be fixed in the next beta?

ChrisE

Apr 13, 2001 at 5:06 PM

I have tested simpleland on a voodoo3 with the next version and it seems to be working perfectly. I hope to have beta 5 out this weekend and hopefully it will work on all cards...

Gorky

Apr 13, 2001 at 6:32 PM

Outstanding.
Keep up the good work.

Stenis

Apr 14, 2001 at 3:49 AM

Great Chris looking forward for the new beta.

/Stenis

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