Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Craig Graham" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics Subject: Re: creation of tmds Date: 6 Jul 1998 07:39:22 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 37 Message-ID: <01bda8b0$eab3bc00$a6e4b8c3@Angela1.intelligent-group.com> References: <354f8520.24963808@www.netyaroze-europe.com><35527A2E.72F907B4@home.com><6n904u$4sn1@scea><359965bc.370444681@news.scea.sony.com><359b0284.176613649@news.scea.sony.com> <01bda654$4e7201c0$f30b0a0a@Angela1.intelligent-group.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d3-s1-166-telehouse.mistral.co.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Toby Hutton wrote in article ... > Oh, geez, I'm trying to lay it down simply and clearly and you have to > go and mention that little function which few of us understand, let > alone use. As I was posting I was thinking 'I hope Craig doesn't > mention gteMIMefunc()...' It's nice to be known.....and feared ;) > Honestly, I don't know what gteMIMefunc() does, as I found the > description in the green book cryptic. I'm no 3D wizard, only know > the basics, I'll leave the hard stuff to you and RSDAnim. Fast addition of one array of SVECTORS to another array of SVECTORS. With a scaling factor. > BTW, dl'ed 1.3 on the weekend, but haven't run it yet, as it's sitting > on my BSD filesystem, inaccessable at the moment by Win 95. But > before I even start I have a question: I have a Diamond Stealth 3D > 2000 card with the virge chip. I was running the provided drivers and > then tried to install DirectX 5 from MS. It told me it didn't > recognise my drivers or something and didn't appear to install > properly. I'm damn sure that Direct3D won't be using the accellerated > 3D in the Virge - so, where can I get drivers and DirectX 5 for my > card that won't complain, anyone? Would the latest drivers from > www.s3.com plus fresh DirectX 5 install work properly? I use an S3 Virge card, and the Direct3D driver does actually support it's accelerated 3D. You get a much nicer display on a Virge than on normal software emulation (the transparency works on DX5 with the Virge driver, and not anywhere else). > Toby. Craig.