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DX11 is working!!!!

DX11 is working!!!!

Postby SolarPortal » 10 Nov 2017, 17:22

Hey all,

just a quick message to let you all know that DX11 is officially up and working with most / all features in play again..
there are still a couple of untested areas like parallax mapping & AO on PBR, but the skyboxes are running.
Textures that are non power of two and compressed using something like DXT1,3,5 are rescaled automatically to the nearest power of 2 which removes the remaining crashes.

Terrain is editable aswell as the physics cut hole tool, so woohoo!! Skyline has DX11 :P
Boy, does it feel good haha :P
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Re: DX11 is working!!!!

Postby TattieBoJangle » 10 Nov 2017, 17:49

Nice work! :D

rescaled automatically to the nearest power of 2


this will be interesting & how did you do it as I can think of lots that would & should go wrong :lol:
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Re: DX11 is working!!!!

Postby SolarPortal » 10 Nov 2017, 20:06

Thanks, just discovered that the GUI needs a bit of work in the DX11 mode, but that wont take long hopefully :)

this will be interesting & how did you do it as I can think of lots that would & should go wrong :lol:

lol :P This just upscales or downscales to the nearest power of two, so for instance, if you had a 900x900 image, then it would change the texture resolution to 1024x1024. Whereas with a res of 545x950 would be turned into 512x1024.
Its only used in DX11 otherwise it would crash when it encounters a compressed image(DXT1) that any mip was not in a multiple of 4.. so again take the 900px example, its next mip is 450 which is not divisible by 4 which is the compressed block size of a DXT1 format.... basically it reads a block of 4x4 at a time...

perhaps might even get 64bit in for this release :P
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Re: DX11 is working!!!!

Postby epsilonion » 10 Nov 2017, 20:29

lol so whats next dx12? lol only joking, can not wait till you get in destructible things.... and all that goes with DX11...


Great works guys keep it up..
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Re: DX11 is working!!!!

Postby SolarPortal » 10 Nov 2017, 23:10

haha :P

Librocket is now working :)
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Re: DX11 is working!!!!

Postby SpiderMack » 11 Nov 2017, 18:24

Great work guys :D

It's cool to see a very complete 3D engine up to date and supporting a better shader system and getting even better performance 8-)
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Re: DX11 is working!!!!

Postby SolarPortal » 11 Nov 2017, 19:08

oh yeah, the performance is great on DX11. I can finally run 1080p without losing all frames like i do in GL.
Once 64bit is running, we will be putting a package together for testing asap :)
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