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I've heard that the original PS2 Architecture was similar to program for as modern vulkan based rendering. Any truth to that? (I have 0 experience in game/3D pr

by dtx1 4y ago

I've heard that the original PS2 Architecture was similar to program for as modern vulkan based rendering. Any truth to that? (I have 0 experience in game/3D programming)

kmeisthax 4y ago
There are some vague similarities; like VU1 can be used akin to a mesh shader to generate procedural geometry. But the overall architecture is very different and simplified. There's no pixel/fragment shaders, for example; you just get Gouraud shaded triangles and nothing else. Modern GPU APIs are about as similar to programming the PS2 as OpenGL 1.x is similar to an Nvidia RTX 3080.
aappleby 4y ago
No, not anywhere remotely similar except that some of the terminology like display lists (that predated PS2) are still used.
- snvzz 4y ago
  >display lists (that predated PS2) Amiga (copperlist). 8-bit Atari before that. Probably even earlier.