The potential of the programmable pipeline

[GamerzHell9137]

Awesome~ , i hope we get it soon.

[NetSlayer]

It's a bit of a stretch but with this new information I wonder if true shadow mapping could be integrated....


right now most ppsspp games use (It seems like) pre rendered lightmaps and sprite shadows.

still wow, very nice work!

[VIRGIN KLM]

I'd be fine with something that automitically applies bump mapping and displacement mapping (not a post processing effect but real ones). I bet you can do it and it's going to work nicely on alot of games. You could generate the maps using the scalled textures and applying effects to them. It won't look as good or as acurate as real maps but it shouldn't be far from how a real map would look.

[Hellbringer616]

Does that mean when texture replacement was added the programmable pipeline could also add true bump and displacement maps? or would it be limited to generated maps?

I also wonder if Dolphin or PCSX2 could use a programmable pipeline.

[Blyss Sarania]

This is quite impressive and awesome.

[Tetraspore]

I don't mean to bump an old thread, but I don't think I need to create an entirely new thread just to ask questions about this but--

How are these effects even added? What is the process? Specifically adding phong shaders and bump maps. Could someone give me a brief run down as to how to begin to try and do something like this with a game?