Hi !
No, no 3d-acceleration now...
The blending-code is in assembler of course, and I load the gfx in a dword-aligned way & I also add (blend) them to dword-addresses, which means, that transparency effects can only be positioned on 2 pix - boundaries, cawz'' otherways you get tons of cache-dismisses, which slows down rendering in a very uncool way...
Most of the transparency effects are no real blending-fx they are just adding or subtracting the source values...
I only use real alpha blending for any kind of bg-objects (burnt grounds, craters, aso.) which can be placed in my level-editor, cawz'' this is kind of slow. the little rocks surrounding my plateaus (on my homepage
www.vertex4.com there are some of those pics...) e.g. are rendered into the map at level-loading-time, because rendering such large maps in 3dsmax , with a detail-level like this, would take quite a little time...
greetz, Roman
To see more please go to www.vertex4.com...
Note: I''m working on that now for 3.5 years (it was definitly the 1st of Jan in 1997, where I said to myself: let''s do it now...) and the whole programming & gfx are made by me... (Visual C/C++ / inline assembler), for the gfx I use 3DS Max 2.5 (but I began with 3ds4 (what a hazzle))...
I''m now in search for a publisher and I really hope to get one, cawz'' this game has really nice features, runs very smoothly (up to 140 fps on a Intel Celeron 300), and last but not least all my love went in there...
The background music & sfx are from a mp3-artist angina p. (ok, its my sister, so it''s some sort of family business we''re starting... 
) have also a look there => www.mp3.com/anginap
There are still lots of things to do (especially in the gfx-section:
here''s a little table, how we see completion status:
- programming 90-95%
- gfx 45-50%
- backgroundtunes 70%
- sfx 35%
- leveldesign 5%
- storydesign 35%
So, what do you think ?
Which publisher / distributor should I contact first ? Is there anybody, who has good addresses ?
Appreciating any kind of answer...
Thanx, Roman
