SoftGraphic graphic plugin

[oddMLan]

Good work on teh plugin! Mario Tennis, a long time game that was never properly emulated is now almost perfect. The downside is that the plugin is very, very demanding (I understand that, because it is being rendered by the CPU and that the plugin is in early stages only looking for accuracy, but some optimizations won't hurt )

[the_randomizer]

Originally Posted by oddMLan

Good work on teh plugin! Mario Tennis, a long time game that was never properly emulated is now almost perfect. The downside is that the plugin is very, very demanding (I understand that, because it is being rendered by the CPU and that the plugin is in early stages only looking for accuracy, but some optimizations won't hurt )

Accuracy is of utmost importance at this point in time,but I'd imagine speed boosts would be implemented much later on since it's not as high as priority

But it's cool to have an accurate graphics plugin after so many years.

[Zera]

Originally Posted by nintendo1889

The plugin is using software to render as opposed to hardware. It's the first release and over time, I'm sure speed will be improved, but for now, it relies wholly on the CPU as opposed to the GPU. The CPU is doing all the work.

Yeah, I know. If we can have software rendering plugins running at full speed in PSX emulation, the same should be possible for N64.

Still, great work. I'm not trying to belittle it, it's quite an accomplishment.

[HatCat]

Actually the plugin was over 4x as fast back before I merged in angrylion's anti-aliasing code.

Before when it was doing aliased polygons all the time, similar to z64gl except in software pixel-accuracy otherwise, it was more at the kind of speed to compete with PSX software RGB rendering.

[the_randomizer]

Originally Posted by FatCat

Actually the plugin was over 4x as fast back before I merged in angrylion's anti-aliasing code.

Before when it was doing aliased polygons all the time, similar to z64gl except in software pixel-accuracy otherwise, it was more at the kind of speed to compete with PSX software RGB rendering.

So, does that mean the same speeds can be implemented sometime down the road, even as a near-possibility? I mean, yeah, I know accuracy is of utmost importance, but a lot of people are going to uh, say something about its speed I'm sure. I'm not complaining mind you, just giving you a heads up on what others might say

I'm just wondering if we'll see the speeds it was getting prior to the anti-aliasing code implementation.

[mudlord_]

Originally Posted by FatCat

Actually the plugin was over 4x as fast back before I merged in angrylion's anti-aliasing code.

Before when it was doing aliased polygons all the time, similar to z64gl except in software pixel-accuracy otherwise, it was more at the kind of speed to compete with PSX software RGB rendering.

Oh yes, bilinear filtering and coverage would completely decimate speeds. Would be fun to have a toggle for coverage emulation and bilinear/N64 texel sampling.

[Zera]

So, Majora's Mask looks pretty much like I remember when I tried out my N64 on a HDTV. Very, very blurry graphics

I tried waiting around at night to see properly rendered stars. I think they were, but it's hard to tell with the blur

[mudlord_]

Which is good. Perfectly rendered graphics are nice to have. No shitting around with shaders, etc.

[mudlord_]

Since you are using software, best do it in software unfortunately. Doing it in hardware would smear the entire image buffer. And yeh, software is pretty much the only way, since the n64 has the fancy image filter for texturing. You could rewrite that to use point sampling to save some speed though, since you aren't using SSE.

Would be interesting to see what it looks like without coverage/AA.

[the_randomizer]

Originally Posted by haxatax

Since you are using software, best do it in software unfortunately. Doing it in hardware would smear the entire image buffer. And yeh, software is pretty much the only way, since the n64 has the fancy image filter for texturing. You could rewrite that to use point sampling to save some speed though, since you aren't using SSE.

Would be interesting to see what it looks like without coverage/AA.

Glide 64 let's you look at games with point-sampling, it looks like a PSX game lol but worse since the N64 had 4 KB of texture cache