Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
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Re: Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
#2Author here, happy to answer any questions you might have.
Re: Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
#3Author here, happy to answer any questions you might have.
Congrats (and thanks) for the amazing prod :)
Re: Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
#4Author here, happy to answer any questions you might have.
Absolutely awesome demo, thanks for the writeup of this impressive feat!
Re: Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
#5You want to go one further... according to this interview[1], Yuji Naka actually wrote a 3D graphics engine for the Master System! :) It was very low resolution, of course, but...
[1] http://segaretro.org/Interview:_Mark_Cerny_(2006-12-05)_by_S...
Re: Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
#6Author here, happy to answer any questions you might have.
I am trying to find my jaw. Haha no questions. Amazing stuff!
Re: Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
#7Nice article. I got a bit lost at the section explaining the left-to-right technique, and wanted to ask about that here, but now I see there's pseudocode and even illustration of the technique. Great that you've gone through the effort to add those, they are really useful to clarify and take away any misconceptions.
Re: Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
#8Author here, happy to answer any questions you might have.
Choosing 50 FPS instead of 60 was because needing to dedicate more CPU to each frame, or because another reason?
P.S. Impressive demo, kudos :-)
Re: Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
#9The imprecise overruns because you'll draw over it is a clever optimization.
It's interesting to compare and contrast these techniques from other excellent sources, like Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book, Special Edition [1].
Thought my technical knowledge topped out somewhere in the middle of the 'Quickly Drawing Tiles' section, the prose and algorithmic detail is lovely, the rationales and code is welcome, and the visualization is excellent.
[1] http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/#chapter-40-of-so...
Re: Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
#10Author here, happy to answer any questions you might have.
Great work, congrats!