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sb306 Full Member Offline I hate Nvidia! Posts: 154 Fresno ca, U.S. Gender:	T-Buffer 04.03.09 at 13:26:04 I know the advertising and specs for the v5500 mention a t-buffer. But I've never seen anything about it anywhere. There is nothing about t-buffer in the 3dfx utility either. Any help would be apprciated. Thanks.
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: T-Buffer Reply #1 - 04.03.09 at 15:35:18 T-Buffer allows for the following effects on the Voodoo5: Depth of Field Blur, Motion Blur, Soft Shadows, Soft Reflections & FSAA.
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exxe God Member Offline ^^ Posts: 1316 germany	Re: T-Buffer Reply #2 - 04.03.09 at 16:30:43 http://falconfly.de/artwork.htm hare are some techdemos and a screenshot
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sb306 Full Member Offline I hate Nvidia! Posts: 154 Fresno ca, U.S. Gender:	Re: T-Buffer Reply #3 - 04.03.09 at 18:59:37 So it was more or less just a tech demo? I thought it might be something like fsaa which could be turned on with 3dfx tools or something like that.
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exxe God Member Offline ^^ Posts: 1316 germany	Re: T-Buffer Reply #4 - 04.03.09 at 19:14:02 the FSAA is in the driver and works with every game but Depth of Field Blur, Motion Blur, Soft Shadows and Soft Reflections is only in this demos
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Reply #5 - 16.03.09 at 15:36:55

Yep.

The additional features like mentioned would have required specific software support, so the game/demo would have had to know, when and where to apply Motion Blur for instance, or everything would have been blurred (not good!). Same goes for the other effects. For FSAA it was possible to apply it globally, as this resulted in the exact desired effect..

Another example for Motion Blur is the Quake 3 Arena Techdemo for 3dfx cards, which showed off some Motion Blur via OpenGL, talking to the T-Buffer directly via some MiniGL extension I believe (but unsure).

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Gold Leader Ex Member	Re: T-Buffer Reply #6 - 16.03.09 at 16:05:33 So actually in that Q3A Demo Motion Blur was actually emulated in a way?
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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: T-Buffer Reply #7 - 16.03.09 at 19:25:50 No, as he said it contained native T-Buffer support via OpenGL Extension done by 3dfx.
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