Quote: "@Dreamflower: According to DBPro 5.1b on my GeForce2 Go system, "GET MAXIMUM VERTEX SHADER VERSION" returns 0. If you think vertex shaders should work on a non-DX8 card without hardware shaders, please give us an example to show us how this works."
they won't ... DarkBASIC Pro only supports HARDWARE features, which means it doesn't support Software/FixxedFunction.
and under U5.1b you'll require it to be a DirectX9 compliant feature.
Quote: "David89, Nice screenies, but couldn't you have gotten the same results just by editing the diffuse power/color in DBpro? At least I got very neat effects using only that. and with low poly counts."
He could actually decrease the polycount down to only 2, and get a far softer and more detailed effect going at a fraction of the cost.
But how to do that, i'm sure some smartarse will be able to explain.
its all about what your willing to do and how you can think of achieveing it, there will always be ways to cut polygons ... sometimes actually increasing the polycount and lightening the shader load can have just as much impact.
