Can we have Phong shading and Tesselation ?

[Seradest]

Phong Shading to make look like low poly model like high poly.
(good for round things)

http://twhl.co.za/tutpics/adding_effect ... res_12.jpg
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/nyit/facet_gouraud_phong.jpeg
http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/thumb/6 ... -Phong.png

and her + tessellation:
http://castano.ludicon.com/blog/wp-cont ... ation2.png
http://castano.ludicon.com/blog/wp-cont ... angles.png

is it not a good alternate model view for far away models ?

here a article :
http://castano.ludicon.com/blog/2009/01 ... sellation/

[Endoperez]

There are many shaders that smooth out angles and add extra detail through maps or various cheats. Overgrowth already uses shaders that do things like that.

Tesselation is a newer tech that's not used much yet. The devs do know about it, because it's one of the things that make Sculptris possible. That's the sculpting software they mentioned recently.

Previous discussion on the matter, with a video.
Here's a presentation about tesselation, titled "Future-Proof Games with
Real-Time Tessellation"
http://developer.amd.com/media/gpu_asse ... _GDC08.pdf

[capn.lee]

i think you'll get further asking for features that you believe the alpha to be lacking rather than a feature you read about. Would it benefit this game? did you think that the models looked jaggedy and ugly before?

[David]

We already use normal mapping to shade game-res models as if they were high-res. Tesselation may be a cool feature later on, but I'd like to save working on OpenGL 4.0 features like that until gamers actually have hardware that supports them, and we're sure there's not a better use for those resources.

[Seradest]

We already use normal mapping to shade game-res models as if they were high-res. Tesselation may be a cool feature later on, but I'd like to save working on OpenGL 4.0 features like that until gamers actually have hardware that supports them, and we're sure there's not a better use for those resources.

ah ok ^^