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shipmatejon

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Question on New Horizons Add on
« on: December 07, 2008, 20:36:57 »

Evening all,

Please can someone expand alittle more on the featured quotes for NH as below:

1)  built with advanced visuals
2)  bumpmapping technology




Thanks

ShipmateJon
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TerryRussell

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Re: Question on New Horizons Add on
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2008, 22:36:20 »

The second one is a method that gets the graphics card to do more of the work, leaving your CPU some spare time to laze around, drinking beer with its mates (if you have a quad core CPU).

The first one sounds like a marketing man limbering up.  ;D
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Rik de Leeuw

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Re: Question on New Horizons Add on
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2008, 16:15:25 »

more info on bump mapping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_mapping
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JHB

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Re: Question on New Horizons Add on
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2008, 16:23:17 »

big words made for marketing purposes..I guess.
I know what bump mapping is but "advanced visuals"..lol..is VSTEP trying to get a Nobel price in computer graphics here? :D
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