New LLE RSP Plugin (accurate, fast but untested?)

[HatCat]

I don't think so sadly...LLE gfx does need more work.
I can't shake the need to finish what I start, though.

Another plugin free of microcode-sided processing is zilmar's Basic CFB plugin, but you would be hard-pressed to use it with respects to LLE gfx.

[HatCat]

Originally Posted by Lithium

What is the difference between LLE Plugin and Software Plugin?

Huh...

Why?

A software plugin does [everything] in software.
A software graphics plugin, for example, is more pixel-accurate than a hardware renderer API like Direct3D because the latter assume non-N64 graphics hardware and give the programmer less control explicitly over how the graphics are handled (but of course, more hardware control).

But, LLE Plugin, you probably don't understand at all.
Because plugins could easily be both, either, or neither.
LLE has nothing to do with the plugin API or hardware/software control.

[shunyuan]

Originally Posted by FatCat

I don't think so sadly...LLE gfx does need more work.
I can't shake the need to finish what I start, though.

Another plugin free of microcode-sided processing is zilmar's Basic CFB plugin, but you would be hard-pressed to use it with respects to LLE gfx.

I have looked the CFG plugin, it has code to refresh frame buffer, but I didn't notice any code to render graphics. Did I miss anything for CFB plugin?

[shunyuan]

Originally Posted by Lithium

What is the difference between LLE Plugin and Software Plugin?

Ziggy's LLE graphics plugin for your reference.

[HatCat]

Originally Posted by suanyuan

I have looked the CFG plugin, it has code to refresh frame buffer, but I didn't notice any code to render graphics. Did I miss anything for CFB plugin?

Yeah, it doesn't actually do any rendering.

It just uses the DirectDraw layer of effectively DirectX 4 to render RGB rectangles on the screen (mostly N6416, maybe some N6432 RGBA pixels). So yeah, no 3-D or microcode stuff.

But, HLE worries there are irrelevant.
And, it's the only graphics plugin to make Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness 2-D Classic mode (CFB effects) playable ! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD JOB ON THE PLUGIN ZILMAR

[shunyuan]

Originally Posted by FatCat

Yeah, it doesn't actually do any rendering.

It just uses the DirectDraw layer of effectively DirectX 4 to render RGB rectangles on the screen (mostly N6416, maybe some N6432 RGBA pixels). So yeah, no 3-D or microcode stuff.

But, HLE worries there are irrelevant.
And, it's the only graphics plugin to make Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness 2-D Classic mode (CFB effects) playable ! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD JOB ON THE PLUGIN ZILMAR

Then why no one has written another LLE graphics pluin since 1997?

[HatCat]

Jabo and MAMEdev were competing over LLE RCP, but before them I am not sure there was sufficient information to emulate the triangle commands. No doubt that various informations had turned up over time, and they were constructing and reverse-engineering off of the same base of information.

But I wish I knew more about the RDP stuff that I could answer your question more definitively.

[Lithium]

Originally Posted by FatCat

Huh...

Why?

A software plugin does [everything] in software.
A software graphics plugin, for example, is more pixel-accurate than a hardware renderer API like Direct3D because the latter assume non-N64 graphics hardware and give the programmer less control explicitly over how the graphics are handled (but of course, more hardware control).

But, LLE Plugin, you probably don't understand at all.
Because plugins could easily be both, either, or neither.
LLE has nothing to do with the plugin API or hardware/software control.

Thanks, i undestand now, i was a little confused about it.

[mudlord_]

Originally Posted by suanyuan

Then why no one has written another LLE graphics pluin since 1997?

why havent you?

[the_randomizer]

Originally Posted by haxatax

why havent you?

It would be nice to have another one, because as good as Glide 64 is in terms of what it emulates, it's not without its bugs