3D engine for Dreamcast.

[VasiliyRS]

Status ... no status ... no changed since last talk even there are 9 pages with motiovation posts and donation suggestion at author's web site. So i really dont how to describe the status...

[PhiseJr]

Status ... no status ... no changed since last talk even there are 9 pages with motiovation posts and donation suggestion at author's web site. So i really dont how to describe the status...

I have hope for this engine i hope it doesn't get forgotten about because it looks promising and great for developers. I'm Still reading through the 9 pages, and on Github to see. I'm looking around to see what else I can find on the status of this project.

[Anthony817]

I already bumped it 3 times, so I think others here should do it, and then Vasiliy and I can respond and say something like, "Yeah we still support this engine" or something like that.

I did read he posted a comment on his video on youtube 1 month ago saying this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omG0l-t1WJs[/youtube]

This running on Dreamcast would be very interesting. If I'm reading the description correctly the actual video image is post rendering and so would not run live in a Dreamcast environment. So exactly how can this 3d engine interface with the DC hardware? big question. My assumption is the physics could be ported to the Dreamcast live rendering in game environment but the dc hardware falls well short of the shading and 3d camera motion and other graphical effects.

Mod nation racers anyone?
Retrogamer71 1 month ago

@Retrogamer71 Dreamcast and PC share the same code within CubicVR with special cases or oprimizations added for each platform (PC / Mac / Linux / PSP / iOS / DC) for example only PC/Mac/Linux support the OpenGL shaders but on DC it will fall back to fixed-function rendering -- I plan to pick up a new DC SD-Card adapter so that I can test it out without the DC-Serial ramdisk which is making it difficult to use any serious models and textures.
cjcliffe 1 month ago

So it appears that he still has no SD Adapter to test his code from. Somebody, get this man a coders cable or sd adapter please? I already traded mine for a mint model 1 1995 Saturn and 7 games...

[cloofoofoo]

I already bumped it 3 times, so I think others here should do it, and then Vasiliy and I can respond and say something like, "Yeah we still support this engine" or something like that.

I did read he posted a comment on his video on youtube 1 month ago saying this.

This running on Dreamcast would be very interesting. If I'm reading the description correctly the actual video image is post rendering and so would not run live in a Dreamcast environment. So exactly how can this 3d engine interface with the DC hardware? big question. My assumption is the physics could be ported to the Dreamcast live rendering in game environment but the dc hardware falls well short of the shading and 3d camera motion and other graphical effects.

Mod nation racers anyone?
Retrogamer71 1 month ago

@Retrogamer71 Dreamcast and PC share the same code within CubicVR with special cases or oprimizations added for each platform (PC / Mac / Linux / PSP / iOS / DC) for example only PC/Mac/Linux support the OpenGL shaders but on DC it will fall back to fixed-function rendering -- I plan to pick up a new DC SD-Card adapter so that I can test it out without the DC-Serial ramdisk which is making it difficult to use any serious models and textures.
cjcliffe 1 month ago

So it appears that he still has no SD Adapter to test his code from. Somebody, get this man a coders cable or sd adapter please? I already traded mine for a mint model 1 1995 Saturn and 7 games...

I think hes complaining about the coders cable being too slow on file transfer to test anything serious(i heard a small pcx file takes minutes!).So he doesnt need coders cable but a broadband adapter...He did says dc-serial ramdisk so i think he means coders cable but doesnt the sd card use the same serial port , so I dont know how much faster the sd card is compared to the coders cable.Probably a bba would do him a world of good but I doubt anyone would donate a 200 dollar bba.

[VasiliyRS]

He is getting back to development ! Read his 11h old posts http://www.cubicvr.org/index.php?option ... atid=5#189

[Anthony817]

Awesome! Glad to see some progress!

[dark]

I love to hear news about CubicVR on DC. Further development could open up some very interesting possibilities. The large size of the environment, the long draw distance, and the large polygon count of the models in the car video are certainly beyond the DC's 16mb of ram, but pairing things down; smaller environments, more optimized models, shorter draw distance, could still result in a really cool and feasible application on the DC. I want to make a stripped down homebrew racer with vertex models and Rez like aesthetics

[Anthony817]

Do you have programming knowledge dark? Also welcome to Dreamcast-Talk!

[dark]

I do have some programming knowledge. I've never done anything on dreamcast though.

Outside of CubicVR, the Open Dynamics Engine which was used in DC Stunt Racer, is another free 3D engine that has some potential. Here is a download.
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/downloads/?did=122

And for examples, reference, here is the link to DC Stunt Racer - the download of which contains the source code.
http://dcstuntracer.sourceforge.net/index.php?lng=en

[VasiliyRS]

Some updates on CubicVR:
http://www.cubicvr.org/index.php?option ... atid=5#223
And
http://www.cubicvr.org/index.php?option ... atid=5#225