Graphics Update, V1.2

yes...
people paid for it.

people like me.

you wouldn't believe how important it is to me and a big part of the community that PA can run on linux (and Mac)

Dont get me wrong, i only worked with OpenGL so far and am very glad that there is support for Linux and Macs

Ah i see. i though that its necessary to invest more than one pass
Thanks for the information!!

It's a off-topic question, but wonder is it possible to make game render "Picture in Picture" with lower resolution? So main view won't have resolution scaling, but PiPs would be rendered with 30-50% of quality? Can this help to gain extra FPS when PiP enabled?

It's will be really interesting to know how much work done from scratch for each PiP on screen and if there anything shared between view's at all.

Thanks for answer, but not only I mean situation when PiP used as "small image in corner", but as secondary view on second monitor for example. There is number of awesome mods that allow this so I was wonder if it's possible to have separate scaling and other rendering options for PiP. Or even with large PiP window resolution won't affect performance much?

As I understand textures should be shared between PiPs somehow and what about other options like lighting/effects/etc?

PS: I'm have 2 monitors so I just interested if it's possible to have to have high quality rendering in main view while PiP will use lower graphics quality.

Or just a very simple rendering where you only see the strategic icons and planet (but are still able to select and order items)

That would be a very interesting option for saving performance.

That would be great if you expose such option for PiPs one day!

As long as I understand all icons rendered in separate 2D layer based on their position in 3D world and I guess it's completely unrelated to actual 3D rendering this topic about.

I think it's works this way because first release where PiP was included had bug where in 2nd, 3rd and next PiPs only icons was visible, but not actual rendering. E.g only first PiP worked properly.

Actually I believe the health bars and strategic icons are part of the same 3d rendering path, they just get rendered after the resolution is scaled up (or down) to the actual screen resolution.

Weird, and what about metal spot icons?

I asked before but I don't think it ever got answered and I am a very curious person, I was wondering how much work changing PA to being a multicore application entails, does it require an entire engine rewrite or just a few lines? Also, I don't even really know why I'm asking this question but can we expect multicore soon® or soon?

You know what the answer to those questions always is...

that halley soon is killing me cause the halleys aren't open

make a better one then, my list can always be longer.

i'll see what i can do

SWEET! More soons coming SOON!

Keep this up and you'll make me lock this thread ... soon...