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| Aquamark 3 - due Q1 2003, first DX9 game!!! |
g__day
31/1/03 08:17:17 AM
Hero
Guru
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It may not take too long for great 3D game engines to switch to DX 9. I just read Massive Developments modernised the Krass engine TM to support Directx 9 - and its out in this quarter.
I don't personally like submarine based games, but the engine is surperb.
http://www.massive.de/english/index_eng.html
01/30/2003 AquaMark 3 is coming this quarter!
Development of AquaMark 3 is progressing well, so we are glad to be able to announce its release for Q1 of this year.
AquaMark 3 is the follow-up of the AquaMark 2.3 which had so far only be available for professional usage.
AquaMark 3 will be a fully DirectX 9-capable cutting-edge benchmark based on our krass™ engine which also powers AquaNox 2: Revelation. The AquaMark 3 benchmark allows users to observe the new graphical techniques made possible by DirectX 9 and determine the performance of these features in a real world application.
Contrary to its predecessor the AquaMark 3 will be available for public download.
http://www.massive.de/german/index_ger.html?technology_krass_ger.html
General
· Well documented, robust and clean CPP interface
· Well designed lean and extensible architecture
· Highly modular
· Object-oriented
Mathematics system
· Optimized vector, angle, matrix and coordinatesystem libraries
· Fast equation solvers (linear, quatric, cubic, quartic)
· Optimized splines - Bezier - Hermite - CatmullRom
· Optimized interpolation and extrapolation methods - Linear - Bilinear (area) -Trilinear (volume)
Realtime physics system
· Physical basic components (spring, damper, joint...)
· Optimized "equations of motion" integration methods
· Particle system dynamics (mass points)
· Full rigid body dynamics
· Full flexible body dynamics (bones, combined coordinate systems)
· Extensive support for jointed bodies
· Fast dynamic contact response calculation system
- Instantaneous collision support (hard spheres etc.) - Virtual overlap collision support (soft spheres etc.)
· Fast dynamic friction calculation system
· Advanced dynamic body controlling and steering system (PID controller)
· Sophisticated dead reckoning system (distributed object syncronization)
Geometry system
· Simple primitive support (sphere, box, plane, triangle, ...) · Complex primitive support (convex hull, quadrics, ...)
· Intersection system
· Hierarchical collision detection system
· Optimized scene and grid definitions
· Efficient visiblility culling and determination system
· Intersection system
· Hierarchical collision detection system
· Optimized scene and grid definitions
· Efficient visiblility culling and determination system
Vector engine system
· Full polygonal primitive support (polygon, mesh)
· Extremely efficient polygonal visibility determination
· Very high polygon throughput, capable of handling large outdoor scenes
· High speed illumination systems (colored, dynamic and directed lights)
· Unified standard renderer support (D3D(tm), Glide(tm), OpenGL(tm), Software) · On the fly switching between D3D(tm), Glide(tm) and OpenGL(tm)
· Advanced software renderer - Depth buffer (Z/W), - Gouraud shading (RGB), - Subpixel accuracy (screencoords / texturecoords), - Perspective correction (piecewise linear) - Alpha-blending and transparency
· Import of Kinetix 3DS Max scenes and objects
· Full ASCII data and object formats
Effect system
· Mesh modifiers (creation, deformation, procedural skeleton animation)
· Multiple texture map support
· Support for displacement-, bump- and environmentmapping
· Post rendering system (lens flares, overlays)
· Particle visualization system
· Sharp and soft edged shadow system
· Sharp edged light cone system
· Sophisticated fog system (depth cueing, unlimited, colored volumetric fogs)
Application support
· Full distributed interactive simulation framework
· Complete simulation-visualization decoupling
· World and entity framework
· Event based messaging system
· I/O system
Sound
· Full 3-D spatialization (position, doppler, obstacles ...)
· Supports DirectSound, EAX, MP3 ...
· Extensive support for the Miles(tm) Soundsystem
Portability
· Win95/98/NT
· Linux · Mac OS
· Next generation consoles (PSX2, Xbox)
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Message Edited By: g__day, 31/1/03 8:19:08 AM -----
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motloh
31/1/03 08:24:29 AM
Overlord
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sounds good, great to see what dx9 is capable of -----
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pbkg
31/1/03 09:07:44 AM
Hero
Champion
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"Portability
· Win95/98/NT
· Linux · Mac OS"
WTF??? If it was a Open GL based game/benchmark, this would make sense, but a DX9 based game, doesn't. Unless of course they use some emulation layer ala winex of course, in which case, why would you bother. -----
I am ready to RTFM, just point me in the right direction....
The brown-nosed-nazi-lamer strikes again..... asleep at wheel, 3 times now.... trigger happy as well it seems
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