curl-6 on 21 October 2014
fatslob-:O said:
Prehistoric shaders ? I hope your not referring to to T&L units or register combiners for your sake since the PS2 has none of those ... The PS2's vector units were very much capable. It could do the aforementioned "bump mapping" and it can even do HDR! Hell, those "shaders" or "vector units" I would prefer to call them by was way more flexible than the vertex shaders found in the original Xbox and light years ahead of the gamecube's "flipper" in terms of programmability. |
PS2's shading capabilities were quite weak compared to Xbox and GCN, even its most advanced games lacked the shader work found in games like Rogue Squadron 2 & 3 and Halo 1 & 2.
