Re: [Dri-devel] Mach64 insight

[Ian R. <id...@us...>]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:59:02AM +0000, Jos=E9 Fonseca wrote:
> I was making some research on the texture compression issue and decided=
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> take a look on the stuff I had downloaded from ATI developer home.
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> I came across this document http://www.ati.com/developer/ravesupt.html=20
> which describes the QuickDraw 3D RAVE API for MacOS, which seems to be =
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> low-level HAL. The information about texture compression is rather vagu=
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> but this documents gives several insights to the Mach64 chip. I found=20
> especially interesting the "Texture From Context" which can be used for=
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> fill in the gaps of some blending modes!

That's interesting.  I did some casual searching also.  I found a couple
obscure references that the RagePro supports DirectX 6 texture compressio=
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I thought that texture compression wasn't added until DX7, and that was
S3TC.  Does anyone know anything about this?

> PS: Another valuable resource I found which I'll surely add to the faq =
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> http://www.realtimerendering.com/

Yes!  That is a wonderful resource.  I look back there quite frequently. =
:)

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