What about fixing Radeon 8500 3D support?
It can't be impossible as Windows and MorphOS does support these cards.

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Fixing Radeon 8500 3D support would require modifying the Warp3D driver for Radeon cards. I only have access to the MiniGL source-code (which is publically available). Added to that, I don't have a Radeon 8500, or the documentation. So it's pretty much impossible for me.

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I did some tests with my µA1 here, some demos work well and very smooth, good work!

Some demos have problems, I already sent you a mail with reaper log attached

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This also means that there is currently no software mode.

What does this mean? Something along the lines of: "it's here, but there is no way you can use it", or?

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Excellent, thanks for this new version. I'll try it out with some OpenGL port.

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What does this mean? Something along the lines of: "it's here, but there is no way you can use it", or?

It means that MiniGL will only run on hardware that has working Warp3D drivers. MiniGL will not fallback to a software render.

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Nope, it doens't support software render but only hardware accelerated one.



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Some demos have problems,

can one give me a link to some demos or other stuff which uses minigl?

thanks and
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You find demos in the archive of minigl 1.5.

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What about fixing Radeon 8500 3D support?

That's in Warp3D not MiniGL, as Hans already pointed out.

For some reason, the same code that works on all other R2xx-based cards does not work on the 8500, I don't know why and and so far didn't get the time to really look at it.

P.S. Good work, Hans

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Excellent work!

Does this mean that now MiniGL has everything needed for things like Blender, or is something missing still?

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You find demos in the archive of minigl 1.5.

just found it after downloading the archive...

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can one give me a link to some demos or other stuff which uses minigl?

Hehe, just uploaded a few days ago: Stars of Nukleus

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I can't remember exactly, but Blender needed either feedback or selection mode. I think it was feedback, but it might also be that it was just the game engine.

Blender also needs evaluators (glMap*), which should be fairly easy to add though.

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I could be wrong but i'm pretty sure i saw a screenshot of Blender for OS4.
Was it before the july update?

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Thanks for the comments. Now all those people that were waiting for display lists to port whatever it was that needed it, please start compiling now.

If developers have specific features that they need, please tell me what they are, and I'll have a look at whether I can implement them. I'd also need example source-code so that I can test the feature. Make sure the code compiles using the public SDK (+ fake stubs for the missing OpenGL functions); no Linux code please as I suck at porting and would rather work on other things.

NOTE: I can only implement features that are possible via Warp3D, so features such as direct rendering to textures, is (AFAIK), not possible; you should render to a bitmap, and then use glTexSubImage() to copy it to a texture.

Of course, the MiniGL source-code is available, so you could also try add it yourself. You might want to wait until my changes have been added to the SVN version though.

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One more feature nailed.

Hopefully MiniGL becomes at stage where people can start porting stuff now.

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is there a benefit for existing W3D hyperion games ? I was not able to use HW rendering with Q2 using a radeon 7500, only SW rendering was working.

anyway, thanks for your work :