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truePlay has reduced graphics
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truePlay has reduced graphics // Archive: Tech Forum
Post by 2much4U // Jan 30, 2007, 12:47pm
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As some of you may know, I'm still running on trueSpace 6.6, so I don't yet have access to real-time photorealism. Just last night, I downloaded a copy of truePlay, and was surprised to see that when I visited the new "truePlace," the graphics were that of TS6. Do I need TS7 to view truePlay photorealisticly? |
Post by GraySho // Jan 30, 2007, 1:04pm
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The presentation of trueplace on your PC depends on your graphic card and the settings. Check the player hardware settings (the icon with the graphic card). If you have a directX9 capable card (which supports pixel shader 2 or higher) you should be able to see trueplace in full quality (Shading Quality set on Full Quality). Of course, it also depends on the content if something looks "photorealistic" or not.
Trueplay and tS7 is totally independent. |
Post by TomG // Jan 30, 2007, 1:11pm
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Not sure what you are seeing in truePlace.
Bear in mind that you are looking at scenes optimised for online, for access to the general public. The scenes could use uber-textures and a lot of lighting with high shadow maps for really nice photorealism, of the sort Marcel Barthel has achieved in the real-time renderer.
But then guess what - anyone without the best in broadband is going to have to wait 10 minutes for the environment to download and anyone without the latest graphics card is going to find themselves running at a snail's pace in framerates.
So we haven't gone that route - instead we've opted for scenes that will download for the majority of people in a reasonable time, and that will run on the majority if graphics cards at a good frame rate. This is an open public space, and not a place to go pushing the boundaries of what can be done in real-time.
You'll also find that it's much better than the tS6.6 view - the real-time shadows for example are a big improvement, the post processing like bloom and supersampling are a big improvement, and the thing can handle much more complex scenes without slowing down. I'd visit the Living Room and see the difference, tS6.6 never produced real-time scenes that nice :)
But is this the best the real-time view can produce? Not by a long way - but the best you will see in a public space that is meant to be accessible to as many people as possible.
What is it capable of that beats tS6.6 realtime?
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/attachment.php?attachmentid=4052&d=1170182090
from thread:
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?p=23410#post23410
http://www.caligari.com/products/trueSpace/ts7/Brochure/Rendering_DX9.asp?Cate=BRendering_dx9
Also just what you see depends on your card - if your card doesn't support real-time shadows, those will be turned off. Anything around a GeForce 6x series and above should do fine, anything older will start to turn off certain features and reduce the quality of what you are looking at.
HTH!
Tom
HTH!
Tom |
Post by 2much4U // Jan 31, 2007, 2:05am
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ThanX for that!:p
I was also wondering...is it possible to use truePlay to access/broadcast a "private" chatroom? |
Post by TomG // Jan 31, 2007, 2:14am
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It's not possible right now, no - that is, not using Caligari servers without Caligari assistance.
If you have trueServe, then you would be running your own server and can set up any spaces you like, and control who knows about them / who has access.
We could set up such a space for someone on our servers too of course, it's possible. You would need to talk to us and let us know your requirements, and we'd then let you know the price for setting that up. It's not something that is currently offered as a regular service, but nothing would make it impossible for us to do.
However, you can't just log in to truePlace and create your own space and control access to it via some automatic and free procedure (which is what I think you are asking, hence my "no" answer at the start).
HTH!
Tom |
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