My post "WB3.0 is going to support HW T&L! HTC, pay attention." which was strictly software/hardware related got hijacked by a few sick individuals that turned it into WB slander contest, complerely ignoring my point.
TT, -Ireg-, Curly and others, you dumb/ignorant/impolite oafs, do you know who created WB and have been working on WB untill the very recent past? None other then Hitech and Pyro themselves. The crew who took over from them did not have much time to contribute a lot of their own yet. As it stands right now, WB is still HT and Pyro's baby. So any slander on WB is slander on Pyro and HT.
If they did such a toejamty work on it that the new people cannot fix in the last half a year, why do you expect any better from Aces High?
WB was/is a great game. Not just the best ever, it was so much better then the second next as to be completely untoucheable by any competition. I hope that with all the experience accumulated gained while working on WB and starting with a clean slate Pyro and HT (and the rest of you, HTC crew) will amase us once more.
I am actually pretty sure of it. An not because of the half-baked beta demo of AH we are "playing" now, but because I watched how they worked on WB for quite a while.
Good work, guys. You can be proud of WB and of what we already see of AH! I appologise in the name of AH/WB community for the few inconsiderate dolts abusing their typing abilities.
I also understand that the reason Pyro and HT left WB has to do with management and corporate policy, not the technical stuff. So there is no reason to believe the guys who are left there to work on WB are bad programmers. They have not proven themselves to be of Pyro and HT caliber yet. But as a programmer, I know how much time it takes to take over a big project. I am amazed that they were able to start making changes so fast. And I like those changes, especially the new ginnery. By the way it is another evidence how good HT and Pyro's team was - the code they left must have been very clean and well structured.
Now back to my original question. It looks like in a few months (by the time AH releases) most of the AH players will own a pretty powerfull hardware. Also a lot of games, not just WB 3.0 will sport support for DX7 and hence hardware T&L on GeForce and other boards.
It seems to me that starting a new game now, it makes a lot of sense to include support for DX7 from the very beginning. Those who do not have the hardware will still be able to run it the same way they do now - with T&L done by CPU, only through DX7. Those who own GeForce will be able to enjoy better resolution/frame rates/detail level and not feel like they just waisted money on that card. And not be tempted to go play other better-looking games.
That is all. Purely technical.
P.S. I am currently using P2-300 64MB, TNT1
Regards,
miko--
[This message has been edited by miko2d (edited 10-29-1999).]
