I as an X10 beta tester must answer these!
Quote: "Realtime Cube Mapping
Lee has said this is a very performance unfriendly effect. Personally I think it should be for the developer to decide if and how the effect is used if they've paid for it."
I heard this was removed very early
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Editable Soft Particles
Sure we got 2 soft particle effects out of the box but no way of editing them e.g. colour or creating our own to produce something as impressive as demonstrated in the tech video."
They got rid of these all together after the tech demo not one beta version included soft particles. I actually think on the 2nd to last beta they finally gave the beta testers what they call the current particles.
Quote: "Manual Control Mode
"You can now control the camera and the effects with the mouse and keyboard as you enter Manual Control Mode". Really? How?"
Never heard of this, I think they tried to make up for it with ghost cam.
Quote: "Soft Stencil Shadows
We got soft stencil shadows for characters but nowhere near the quality of the tech demo. They do not get cast in relation to lights and only appear when a character is next to you. The shadows do not get cast with the distance or crispness shown in the tech demo and I don't believe they get refracted in water as demonstrated."
I hate stencil shadows there horrible in all ways in the case of X10. You never see these there so un-realistic only during like sun sets will you. Other then that shadows are always blurred. These also do hell to the graphics card in X10. They should have release any good ol' dynamic shadows and I would have been happy. I do not know anything about this though.
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Depth of Field Shader
Clearly demonstrated in the tech demo but not found in the retail version. No FPSC call of duty mod is going to be complete without it."
This was answered, but I can't remember specifically what the reason for it was. I think it was bad for performance or it was buggy.
Quote: "GPU Instancing
We did get object instancing and texture arrays which is nice but I've not seen any evidence of scaling variation features present."
I don't see what more you could want with this please fill me in
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I guess that's my contribution.