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Originally Posted by addman
Funny thing about all this is that a large part of the PC owners still uses WinXP and we all know WinXP won't go any higher than DirectX 9. Even though many gamers have bad-ass graphic cards that supports DirectX 10/11 they still use WinXP. Might be ONE of quite a few reasons why they choose to have the game scalable. If you make the game DirectX 10/11 only then maybe many potential customers might be lost.
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Exactly.
Also, correct me if i'm wrong but isn't DX11 mostly about tesselation?
I'm not an expert on graphics, but from reading that nVidia article a while back it seems that tesselation is mainly a technique used to add bumps and a relief structure to 2d items, in order to make them 3d without having to manually specify each and every curvature point/height data/etc. It seems like it's an algorithm that combines a couple of 2d sources to produce a 3d item on its own, on the fly. The advantage seems to be that it saves you some workload since it goes about it automatically, the disadvantage seems to be that you don't have as much control over how the surfaces are created, is that a good approximation?
Well, if that's the case then i really fail to see the use for it when the aim is to produce painstakingly accurate reproductions of military hardware when their silhouette will be closely scrutinized by hordes of rivet counters
I wouldn't want to fly a 109 and have it create overdone bumps and whatnot on the metal fuselage skin that were different each time, plus that Spitfire screenshot we saw at one point (at high detail with AA/AF enabled) showed that "wrinkles" in the aircraft skin were already reproduced just fine with other techniques (like bump mapping).
In fact, i vaguely remember them stating this was their exact reasoning for not including it...it would destroy the accuracy of their 3d models and would need a complete rework of all models from the ground up to be of any real use.
I think it would be useful to add a true 3d feel to things like gravel surfaces on railroad embankments, masonry and stonework on buildings or maybe waves in the channel, but as for the actual units the needed workload is off the charts and would cause further delays, so i don't really mind them not including it at this point.