ATI's 3dc, impact on HL2 graphic quality?

[Strahd Von]

Some of you have done the test ?

Like a before and after picture.

Should be interesting to have a With 3dc and without 3dc picture in some parts of city 17 or elsewhere.

I mean ATI is selling this technology with these word

Quote ' This technology is designed to allow game developers to
pack more detail into real time 3D images than ever before, making 3Dc a key enabler of the HD
Gaming vision.'

 

[Asus]

As far as I know, HL2 does not yet support 3Dc. Although it would be nice if they added support for 3Dc and PS3.0 (oh and HDR) in a future patch of HL2.

 

[Asuka]

I assume it wouldnt be hard. Farcry did it with 1 patch took few months. Would kickass if they added it.

 

[Ebenol]

I don't think any cards are using 3dc on HL2 at the moment.

 

[CookieCuttah]

Farcry on HDR wasn't exactly what I wanted..It didn't look right in some places and was basicly a bit of a poor effort in places...But it was also very awesome looking in places it looked right.

 

[Mr.Wotsit]

3d what???

 

[Vesh]

3Dc - ATI's wonder-compression for normal maps (maybe other texture information, too?).

http://www.ati.com/developer/samples/dx9/3dcnormalcompression.html

 

[nvrmor]

i think thats what gabe was talking about with the ati levels. people assume its new levels/content. i think its just a reworking of hl2 using ati specific effects. like crytek did with the nvidia ps 3.0 patch.