shader model

[urbanx]

dont know whether this has been covered before but does half life 2 support shader model 3.0?

 

[She]

nani?
eh.. what is a Shader model..
You mean a model who can support shaders on them or something with polygons????

im lost..

 

[blahblahblah]

dont know whether this has been covered before but does half life 2 support shader model 3.0?

Through a patch that will be released after the game is released. However, since HL2 is running really fast on the latest hardware (based on the VST), SM 3.0 is quite useless for HL2. So don't worry about it.

 

[iamaelephant]

Not out of the box, but it really isn't required for a game like HL2.

 

[nw909]

nani?

Jesus...

How many times do I have to explain this, it's spelt W.H.A.T

kthx.

 

[Asus]

Even though there will be support for SM3.0 later in HL2, hardly any game will truely take advantage of it. Even the UE3 only uses virtual displacement mapping.

 

[urbanx]

whats ue3?

 

[joshsmog]

I think its unreal 3, I really don't know what the E is in there for.

 

[iamaelephant]

Unreal Engine 3

 

[Asuka]

I think its unreal 3, I really don't know what the E is in there for.

Unreal 3 the game isnt even announced yet. Only the Unreal 3.0 Engine.

 

[DarkStar]

I really like SM3.0 actually. I doesn't really improve image quality but it runs about 10 FPS faster in Far Cry. At least for me.

 

[M1RAG3]

It is nonsense hype, targeted to help sagging nVidia sales. You will not see any true "performance" increase from the use of SM 3.0 yet. In fact you probably won't see any significant use for it for another year or so. HL2 being as advanced as it is only uses about 90 passes at max (stated by Gabe) where the maximum for SM 2 is 512, and can even go higher with DX 9 Extended Shading, quite close to SM 3.0 in fact. (SM 3.0 is approximately 65,000). So don't even worry about whether or not HL2 uses it. In all honesty, it really is not that big of a deal at all.

 

[moondynejoe]

nw909 do you realise that you average around 18 posts per day since you joined????
My god man have you no life!!!

surely you have the most posts out of anyone? no one can beat that.......can they?

sorry to be off topic but that amazed me and i had to comment. 18 per day for every day he's been a member of this forum WOW!!!

 

[moondynejoe]

just checked the members list there are actually people who beat you shuzer has a higher average post rate than you. BOW AT HIS FEET.

 

[Glo]

thats unappropriate.

 

[The Dark Elf]

HL2 will support it.. eventually, maybe.

There have been lots and lots of threads on this, so locked.