Thanks Trev and Hans!
This is Amazing

Ha en bra utvecklar period och låt oss skörda den fina frukten sen!

greetings from sweden

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Great news! Amiga os4 development is speeding up! Now that X1000 is out lets look to lots of nice software for os4! Hans is a real asset and thank you Trevor for keeping the dream alive.

cool! thanks trevor and hans!

regards...
michael

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so, if hans will port 3D acceleration to AmigaOS 4, Gallium 3D project is not yet started and maybe it won't start never...

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@Seiya

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so, if hans will port 3D acceleration to AmigaOS 4, Gallium 3D project is not yet started and maybe it won't start never...

That is realy creative interpretation of this announcement.


I see you are eager to use Radeon HD with 3D on your OS4 computer, maybe you should send some small donation to Hans.

as soon as i win some bilions of eur

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Another hopefully occuting method, looking through the source code showed an awful lot of Quaternion roatation mathematics, which I would hope would have single command equivalents in thePA6T extension blocks, and even more so on teh various GPUs plugged into it.

Yup that would be good to know, I noticed that the code for multiplying quaternions together is different to what I use. In my foggy memory, I seem to remember basing mine on an article doing it with less multiplications (12 multiplications rather than 16) and obviously less when the w component is 0, e.g. for a 3d vector.

The code I use is

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Quaternion *MultiplyQuaternions (const Quaternion * const q_p, const Quaternion * const r_p)
{
Quaternion *quaternion_p = (Quaternion *) AllocVec (sizeof (Quaternion), MEMF_ANY);

if (quaternion_p)
{
const double q_w = q_p -> qu_w;
const double q_x = q_p -> qu_x;
const double q_y = q_p -> qu_y;
const double q_z = q_p -> qu_z;

const double r_w = r_p -> qu_w;
const double r_x = r_p -> qu_x;
const double r_y = r_p -> qu_y;
const double r_z = r_p -> qu_z;

const double a = (q_w + q_x) * (r_w + r_x);
const double b = (q_z - q_y) * (r_y - r_z);
const double c = (q_w - q_x) * (r_y + r_z);
const double d = (q_y + q_z) * (r_w - r_x);
const double e = (q_x + q_z) * (r_x + r_y);
const double f = (q_x - q_z) * (r_x - r_y);
const double g = (q_w + q_y) * (r_w - r_z);
const double h = (q_w - q_y) * (r_w + r_z);

quaternion_p -> qu_w = b + (-e - f + g + h) * 0.50;
quaternion_p -> qu_x = a - (e + f + g + h) * 0.50;
quaternion_p -> qu_y = c + (e - f + g - h) * 0.50;
quaternion_p -> qu_z = d + (e - f - g + h) * 0.50;
}

return quaternion_p;
}

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To clarify: It was confirmed well over 6 months ago that work on the Gallium port had already begun and that the Friedens are working on this.

Hans is working on the Radeon HD graphic drivers which is something different - two areas of development which when combied together will bring a rich (and stable) 3D experience.

Maybe Trevor's donation will also be enough to finance Hans hopes for implementing GART as well which with a suitable written app will allow smooth, fast and low-CPU screen-capturing.

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Very good summary

Trevor

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@Seiya

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so, if hans will port 3D acceleration to AmigaOS 4, Gallium 3D project is not yet started and maybe it won't start never...

And when did you read this ??
The announcement never say that, Hans say that the Trevor funds will help him to finish the 2D driver soonish

Also you can't know who are working on Mesa/Gallium right now, maybe both Friedens bros and Hans are involving into it at the same time, code are surely open for the internal developers

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Great news !
Thanks again to Trevor & Hans.

Also made a small donation.

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