When I ran the PR Land1 demo on this card .. The character is not seen in view but his shadow is seen. If I look up at the sky .. some part of the character is seen. Also the farther terrain cuts the close terrain. Does PR support 16 MB cards .. or is it now only for 32 Mb cards. Does anyone know whats causing this problem .. the frame rate seems ok !! Chris have you tested on this card ?

Hi,

I use this card, too.

No. It''s just a problem with the new driver. I have the same clipping errors.

The older driver worked perfectly. Hope they will release a newer one, soon.

bye

Felix Kollmann, DG5PT

Future Interactive

[http://www.futureint.com]
[fkollmann@gmx.net]

I have the same problem with an ATI Rage, not only with the demo but some of the newer projects as well. However, if you disable the use of Alpha Blending in the code it seems to work fine.

Kefren .. could u plz tell me exactly what you do .. is it with the render Alpha polys .. or something else ..

Here is a sample section of code from the new land1 project:

void LS_LoadTerrain (char *filename)
{
PR_SetTextureStage (1);
PR_SetTextureMulti (1);

PR_Settings.HardwareMipmaps = -1;
/* Use all mipmap levels so the detail ''fades'' away to nothing at a distance */
//PR_SetTextureFormat (TEXTURE_P_8);
PR_SetTextureFormat (TEXTURE_NORMAL);
detail_tex = PR_LoadTexture ("detail.pcx");
PR_SetTextureFormat (TEXTURE_NORMAL);
PR_Settings.HardwareMipmaps = 1;
PR_TerrainStages = 2;
PR_TerrainDetailScale = 1; /* Wrap detail 2 times on each tile */
PR_SetTextureStage (0);

setlib (filename);

LS_AllocObjects ();
LS_AllocEntities ();
CHR_AllocateCharacterTypes (512);

LS_LoadLevelInfo ();
LS_CreateTerrain ();
InitializeTerrainMaterials ();
InitializeTerrainSettings ();

setlib (NULL);
// PR_SetTextureFormat (TEXTURE_P_8);
PR_SetTextureStage (0);
PR_SetTextureMulti (0);
PR_SetTextureFormat (TEXTURE_NORMAL);
SearchForObjects ();
InitializeAllEntities ();
DrawAllStaticShadows ();
}


Here it is with multi-texturing removed:

void LS_LoadTerrain (char *filename)
{
setlib (filename);

LS_AllocObjects ();
LS_AllocEntities ();

LS_LoadLevelInfo ();
LS_CreateTerrain ();
InitializeTerrainMaterials ();
InitializeTerrainSettings ();

setlib (NULL);
PR_SetTextureFormat (TEXTURE_P_8);
SearchForObjects ();
InitializeAllEntities ();
DrawAllStaticShadows ();
}

The second set of code allows me to run the land1.exe without the problems you described on my ATI Rage, albeit, then I don''t have the nice detail texture on the landscape.

Thanks .. I''ll try this right away