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Learning this is like when I learned that the Sony PSP couldn't clip triangles that were larger than the view frustum when rendering. I was making a hack-and-sl
by xigency 10y ago
Learning this is like when I learned that the Sony PSP couldn't clip triangles that were larger than the view frustum when rendering. I was making a hack-and-slash dungeon game for a homebrew contest when I figured that out and had to find software clipping code fast, so that big pieces of the walls and floor wouldn't disappear when you got too close. It ended up slowing my game down, and if I knew about that limitation I would have engineered around it from the start. I ended up breaking up large triangles and keeping everything stored in an octree.
After that, I started noticing subtle clipping issues in a few games including Daxter.
I would have never guessed that any 3D video game console didn't have a Z-Buffer, including a relic like the PSX.
- gambiting 10y agoSlightly off topic - I used to participate in several PSP homebrew programming contests too, have you by chance participated in QJ.net or NeoFlash competitions in years 2006-2009? I'm asking because it would be cool to find someone else who took part :D My entries were: PSPSnake, Shoot4Fun, Mandelbrot Fractal Generator, and BlowUp! in the final year.
- coldpie 10y agoI did :) I made Dyox in 2006 and won a prize: https://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php?topic=2876 https://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php?topic=2876 I no longer have a PSP, but reportedly it still works on modern CFW and you can run it in PPSSPP: http://brightnightgames.com/games.php?game=dyox http://brightnightgames.com/games.php?game=dyox My email's in my profile if you want to chat
- xigency 10y agoYes, I did. I made "Quak Arena" [1] for the 2006 NeoFlash competition and the game I mentioned was Chronicles [2] for the dash hacks competition in 2009. [1] https://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,3035.0.html https://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,3035.0.html [2] http://forums.dashhacks.com/psp-programming-development/239955-%5Bhombrew-idol-2%5D-chronicles.html http://forums.dashhacks.com/psp-programming-development/2399...