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Originally Posted by Iszak
Well, but then there's this fella, Ankor, who activated selfshadowing and bumpmapping in CFS3/WOFF via D3D wrapper library...And the CFS3 engine is even more ancient than Il-2's.....
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Hi! I'm that fella
Well, I was wondering why Il2 still don't have such features modded in, but I suppose it is just more difficult to get them working there.
You see, CFS3 graphics engine is very primitive - closer to DirectX 7 than 8, doesn't have any programmable shaders and thus uses very standardized and straightforward set of drawing functions. It was relatively easy to get (almost) all required information out of them without even looking at the engine code.
IL2 on the other hand is very likely to be optimized for its own custom shaders which may make extracting geometry and lighting data more complex. Though I don't really know any specifics, never looked into it.
05-24-2014, 08:21 AM
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