For the lazy, a link to the patch in question: https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4790
Also, hot on the heels of that, an updated renderer: https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4358 I know Thilo is not comfortable with reviewing code that gets that funky with the engine, are there any ioq3 committers who are? Ryan, maybe? At long last some contributors have stepped up to the plate and delivered (pending peer review); hopefully some committers will at least evaluate these patches! Monk. > Hello, > > sorry for bringing back this old discussion, but there is a patch > contributed by use.less01 to separate the renderer into a dll on Bugzilla > (Ticket 4790). The patch does not add or remove any functionality from the > current renderer, so most of the issues on the wiki are not addressed, but > I > think issues like automatically choosing the best renderer, backward > compatibility etc. can only be sorted out when there actually are more > than > one renderer to choose from. > > I wonder what is necessary (testing, code review, etc.) to get this patch > commited to the ioquake sources, because I have been working on replacing > deprecated GL functionality in the ioquake3 renderer with more modern > functions, but I find working with OpenGL 2.x + extensions to be very > painful, as hardware support is varying a lot and the renderer has to > check > / provide alternatives for missing functionality. (E.g. vertex texture > fetch > is a required feature for GL 2.1, but drivers for DX9 class ATI cards do > not > support it, so they announce GL2.1 compatibility, but return > GL_MAX_VERTEX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS = 0, so you cannot use the feature. > NVidia > announces support for float textures for GeForce 6 and 7 cards, but in > fact > it supports them only in vertex shaders - using them in a fragment shader > causes no error, but the renderer will run in software mode with ~1fps.) > > So I would like to move to OpenGL 3.x, which has a reasonable set of > features that every vendor has to support in hardware, but as OpenGL 3.x > (corresponds to DX10) support is not granted today, I'd need to keep the > old > renderer for those who still have only OpenGL 1 or 2 support. This should > be > ok, because the fixed pipeline has been removed only in OpenGL 3.1. > > > 2010/4/30 <[email protected]> > >> Well, I don't have to expound on how much I wish that ioq3 updated its >> 10-year-old rendering tech to, say, 7-year-old rendering tech, so I'll >> keep this short. I decided that for there to be any movement on this at >> all from any interested parties, there had to be a starting point for >> commenting. With that in mind, I present: >> >> http://wiki.ioquake3.org/Modular_Rendering_System >> >> You can scroll to the bottom for the quick-and-dirty summary. Please >> bear >> in mind that this is written from someone without a working knowledge of >> the quake 3 codebase. In fact, I would extremely love to have people >> with >> that knowledge take a look at see what parts seem feasible or practical >> or >> even possible! And at the very least this will be a reference point for >> others to look at and say "ok this idea has merit" or "what was he >> smoking >> when he came up with THAT?" >> >> And hell, if this gets hashed out well enough, even if there are no >> interested parties at present who want to implement it, it should make >> any >> future attempts at implementation easier for whoever wants to try >> tackling >> it. >> >> So please, constructive comments, discussion, etc. This is pretty much >> as >> far as my skillset will allow me to contribute to this idea/effort so >> instead of lamenting the lack of these features I figured I'd at least >> do >> what I could to make implementation easier for others. >> >> Thanks for your time! >> >> Monk. >> _______________________________________________ >> ioquake3 mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org >> By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl. >> > _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
