3dfx on OpenGL

Can someone point me to an article somewhere that describes exactly what voxels are? I know that they're "volumetric pixels," but does that mean simply that rather than using triangles, you're now using cubes and spheres as your base entities? (ie centre point and a radius).

What really pisses me off, is that these assholes are talking about trying to ram ANOTHER proprietary API down our throats with the Rampage, when they still can't even do OpenGL in a standard way.

They just don't get it.

New is bad! We don't want new!

Some of you dudes are a trip...

One thing you guys are forgetting is that "NEW API" does not necessarily mean "PROPRIETARY API". Currently, there are no "voxel API's", so if 3DFX plans to accellerate voxels on the rampage, they have to come up with a proper API themselves. This API may or may not be directly tied to their rampage hardware, and any guesses as to this are purely hypothetical at this point.

Vantage.

Ya know what? I'm damn glad I dumped my DooDoo2 and didn't get a DooDoo3 way the hell back when. I decided to be a 3dfx rebel. So, I coughed up the dough and bought a TNT2.

I put the v2 in the computer at work. During quiet moments, I fire up a little q2 in all it's v2 glory....YIKES! Where'd the colors go???

Then, I come home, pop open a Guinness, and enjoy the gaming nirvana that is Nvidia.....ahhh, that's better.....ooh, yeah, that's the way....a little lower....yeah, right there.....ouch, watch the damn teeth, will ya???

CHEERS!

Mmmm, just imaging playing on an arcade machine that has FSAA, motion blur, DoV, and all that stuff... =)~~
And whos the company that is delivering it to the masses?? That is if they ever REALESE the damn chip. I personally can't wait

let me update that I'll give away my tnt2 ultra if I get a good deal on a v5-5500 . so if you need a new video card and don't have any cash ,start hoping I get a good deal on one and pray you get my tnt 2ultra. I won't be giving my v2's away ,just wasted to much time playing quake with them and they are like a friend ,,, strange as it may seem.

I just want a good deal on a v5-5500 Yup and I'll even take out the tnt2 ultra and v2's sli rig if I get one. A good deal on a v5-5500 that is.

Comparing the TnT1 to the VD3 is just plain stooooopid. Why not compare the VD3 against some POS Virge board? LOL

I just pulled my CL TNT out of my machine and dropped the V3 back in, although my V3 has gone through some slight changes...
It now has a 486 CPU heatsink & fan mounted to it (NOTE: This is the result of a bored geek getting delusions of grandeur while stumbling around his local Fry's superstore) That, and it has successfully overclocked to a speed of 179 (insert flames'OOH's and AHH's' here.) I had it set like a 3500TV at 183, but I don't think the RAM liked that too much.
One of the bigger determining factors which prompted me to toss the V3 back in my system was Unreal Tournament. UT looks like complete shit in D3D. My biggest question is, "Why does Unreal D3D look so much better than UT D3D?" Just what the hell did they do to the renderer between games? Oh yeah, I tried the Glide wrapper for the CL TNT. Can you say 'superflous'? I knew you could.

* U T · I S · 3 D F X ' S · B I T C H ! *

Outside of that, i'd like to be able to p1mp Nvidia and say that the TNT1 outran the V3 in all the other games I play, but... it didn't. My V3 has been quicker at every turn, and even moreso now. I'm waiting for the next offering from both companies before upgrading. The next jump I make is going to be into the realm of full-screened, anti-aliased, 32-bit color, at 300 fps in Quake 3. Uh, wait... No, nevermind.


-LBS.

Heh, j/k, trying to keep up with the spirit of my recent postings. You 3dfx whores better produce some decent OpenGL drivers!

Apparently it's not good enough to you people that 3dfx is finally producing a card with 32-bit color support. You people make me physically sick.

being a big fan of pin ball machines and game arcades ,I wasn't allowed to have a console or a computer in the house - which in its self is ironic when one of my cousins "who is now retired" was a research and development head at digital computers was and is highly regarded and looked up to in the family ,I played almost everything and anything video that came out , now if you only play computer or console you don't know what your missing ,nothing comes close to the arcade feel in gaming and most are powered by 3dfx video and I have to say the video must be good ,do to the fact that the machines are being broken into to steal the video boards ,which I'm told cost quite a few thousand dollars to replace.

Lets hope that they actually manage to realese it in december, not 6 months after due to 'tech dificulties' A la V4 and V5

Of course OpenGL & D3D will be the #1 favorites for developers. I was stating to #7 that the new API would be for the hardware Voxel unit if these specs are correct.

The arcade mention you brought up is good as well. I remember Midway saying 3dfx next chip (rampage) would be a lot better then what they currently have, and midway will use the new chip.

Regardless, it's redundant to sit here & speculate in march when the card isn't supposed to be in stores until December, even then a 1 month delay means we wait until 2001.

I hope that 3dfx's next cards will use full Opengl. One of the reasons I HAD to get an Nvidia card, back when I had a humble Virge and SLI. I NEEDED full opengl heh =)

As for creating a new API... well I'm not too worried, I just don't think that it'll be used enough and will wither away really quickly. I think the only reason Glide lasted so long was because none of the previous Voodoo cards HAD full opengl, so they had to come up with something that would work. And it did, but now it's waaay too dated. That's my interpretation of it anyways =)
Anyone care to correct me? hehe

Just get the card out here please ,then lets us decide which is what or who is when or where is how. Okie dokie.
I would rather be on the 3dfx side and battle with the nvidia side ,just to make things more interesting and fun . Other than the fact that I really don't like the GeForce card - I do like the tnt2 ulta, the orignal tnt wasn't to my liking also,but the 128 was and is pretty cool.
Just my couple of three cents worth.

I'll be happy when we don't have a explicitly load 3dfxogl.dll and map all the GL functions to it. We should be able to just link to opengl32.lib and having the opengl32.dll automatically load regardless of what card is installed in the machine.