Cemetech Contest #4

KermMartian · Posted: 08 Jun 2007 08:43:20 pm Post subject:

A bit offtopic, but speaking of GPU utilization, I believe I saw a recent article on Digg about a Mac image editor that had built-in sharing of the image processing load between the CPU and GPU.
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Harq · Posted: 08 Jun 2007 09:37:16 pm Post subject:

Even with the GPU, I don't think we are at the point where we can get reasonable speeds with raytracing in something like a shooter, where there can be hundreds of objects on screen at one time, almost all in motion.

I did some "Digging" and found links to a. a 26 year old who made an experimental version of quake3 that uses raytracing, and also to a group of researchers who developed more efficient algorithms for it, and are making raytraced versions of quake 3 and 4 (and also, it said that these algorithms are going to be used in openrt) These will really take off once quad-core becomes the norm and gpu's are used effectively.
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Kllrnohj · $/=\$ PH34R |\/|3 Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 8189

Of course not, but you are underestimating just how much speed is available in a modern GPU. Not nearly enough for raytracing currently, but GPU power is roughly doubling with every generation - not something the current CPU market can boast.
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Harq · Posted: 09 Jun 2007 10:15:03 pm Post subject:

Take a look at this: http://medvis.vrvis.at/projects/visualization/

I had no idea raycasting could be used for such detail (and yes it uses the gpu Klr, its not raytracing, but still amazing).

I was doing some research on raycasting and such on Gamedev and the internet in general when I stumbled upon this (I've become interested in raycasting and raytracing now, thanks Calc84! Razz

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haveacalc · Posted: 11 Jun 2007 11:39:55 pm Post subject:

I'm making the sprites for my game right now. Would you, Kerm and/or rivereye (I guess only Kerm, since it's ASM), have anything wrong with me posting them when I'm done? I'm fueled by outside motivation, and I daresay I need it with at the pace I'm going at.
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calc84maniac · Posted: 12 Jun 2007 09:09:39 am Post subject:

Heh, there's no way I can reveal any more about my project... Very Happy

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rivereye · Posted: 12 Jun 2007 09:23:02 am Post subject:

just as long as it is low key about what is in it.
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Harq · Posted: 12 Jun 2007 09:09:14 pm Post subject:

Oh god! Sudden and random inspiration through a warped mix of Ngame, Mario, and Fallup =P

Not very original, but I need something to keep my basic skillz at a reasonable level =P
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olav_nordmann · Member Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 121

As I found info about on internet, it is different sights on where the limits or requirements between a platform game and other games. What is the absolute limits and requirements for the platform games in the contest Question

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rivereye · Posted: 13 Jun 2007 08:57:53 am Post subject:

basically, if you jump from a platform to platform, and have side scrolling in some way, you should be good.
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TheStorm · NOU! Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 2375

Does vertical scrolling count cuz that is my current idea.
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rivereye · Posted: 13 Jun 2007 09:08:03 am Post subject:

I would think so.
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TheStorm · NOU! Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 2375

Yeah virtical scrolling will be easier for me to do.
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Sting::Ray · Posted: 13 Jun 2007 10:08:35 am Post subject:

Ooh, vertical scrolling; sounds cool! Smile

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Tari · Posted: 13 Jun 2007 10:32:10 am Post subject:

It is a cool idea (I know what it is). I was doing something similar to what he's doing, but I didn't want to spend hours and hours agonizing over a smooth-scrolling (on both axes), collision-detecting tilemapper, so I gave up the idea.
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rivereye · Posted: 13 Jun 2007 02:14:36 pm Post subject:

ah, that sounds like a lot of fun though, ah well.
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TheStorm · NOU! Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 2375

Well i actually changed my idea a little because the first one wasn't much of a game so I reworked it using an idea the Tari was going to use.
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