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| Dima
alexsok@netvision.net.il
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|  "Carmack on Directx 8"
, posted Thu 29 Mar 04:29  
Taken from Voodooextreme:
Carmack on DX8 12:08 PM (your time) - Robert "Apache" Howarth - Software: Microsoft - (6)
Billy fired off a question ("Do you feel it's a big improvement over DirectX7? In what ways, do you think they (MS) have really excelled? What is lacking?") to id Software's supra-genius programmer John Carmack about Direct X 8.0. Here's what the man had to say on the matter:
DX8's biggest benefit has been in forcing vendors to a minimum level of compatibility with the new features. Instead of allowing each vendor to have a different list of "cap bits", they just required complete compatibility for each broad functional area.
Now, that did wind up benefiting Nvidia the most, because they had the largest hand in the API definition, forcing everyone else (that is left) to adapt.
The worst aspect is that the pixel shaders aren't nearly as flexible as the purport to be, but that is more the fault of the current hardware than the API.
John Carmack
"We've been doing hacks and tricks for years but now we'll be able to do things we've been wanting to do for a long time" Carmack said. "For instance every light has its own highlight and every surface casts a shadow like in the real world. "Everything can behave the same now and we can apply effects for every pixel."
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| Zaldron
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| "Re(1):Carmack on Directx 8" , posted Thu 29 Mar 09:09
I wonder what pixel shaders were intended to be...
...and what could JC make with them.
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| | Lord FlatHead
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|  "Re(2):Carmack on Directx 8"
, posted Thu 29 Mar 10:04
God I love tech talk :)
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| | Dark_Fox
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|  "Do the monkey.."
, posted Thu 29 Mar 14:38
Uh.. big words hurt Krunk's Head..
You can hit my duck bitch becuase I will plug your ass with him! His has plugged over 5000 newbie asses including several repeat customers since he was brought in from the projects. The pond complex.
Look fer the duck with the white fur coat and the pimp kane..
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| | deadnail
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| "Re(1):Do the monkey.." , posted Thu 29 Mar 16:32
Don't worry, the Viking God of Rock will take care of that!
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