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To: Scumbria who wrote (76566)	3/17/1999 11:24:00 AM
From: Haim Barad	Read Replies (2) of 186894

Depth complexities of 100 are very rare. In fact, good scene management (CPU) will go a long way to keeping the depth complexity low (of course, this depends upon content). Also if a SW geometry engine is not in front of the HW, then all the content (even backfacing and completely clipped primitives) will be sent over the bus to the HW. This exacerbation of bus traffic over a SW geometry engine isn't a clear win for HW engines. It's going to be content driven. Certainly, it's not a clear case that HW geometry engines will completely replace SW engines. Many SW vendors will not use a "standard" lighting algorithm and prefer to light their own vertices. There's other issues as well (e.g. specialized higher order surface rendering, etc) that HW will be slow to adapt. Certainly it'll come with time, but usage by SW vendors will be much slower. In any case, this is probably not the place for a SW/HW debate on geometry engines. I can certainly see pros/cons on both sides. Haim

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