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Any word on DX11?
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Akai Kvaesir
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
#1 - 2012-03-28 20:41:52 UTC
The vid at fanfest was awesome. Me want moar. When should we expect some info on whether this is actually going to happen or not? From what I gathered from the presentation, you guys aren't 100% on whether to do it or not...some clarification?

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Akai Kvaesir
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
#2 - 2012-03-28 20:58:40 UTC
No one else loved seeing asteroids breaking up on shields? No one liked being able to SEE your shields? And tesselation...omfg please moar?

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Grumpy Owly
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2012-03-28 21:05:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Grumpy Owly
Wise peeps with spreadsheets and beancounters will likley need to do some re-shuffling alongside other Fanfest considerations so that decisions can not only be made, but made well.

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Romla Yatolila
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-03-28 21:07:10 UTC
Not quite sure whether i successfully traveled through time or this post is late..

you could put feedback on the devblog comment thread about it though.
Akai Kvaesir
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
#5 - 2012-03-28 21:23:09 UTC
Feedback is one thing, more info is another. Just looking to find out if this is a pipedream...

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masternerdguy
Doomheim
#6 - 2012-03-28 21:45:53 UTC
You don't need DX11 for asteroids to break up on impact or to see your shields. Lots of games have done both of those things with things a lot older than DX11.

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Christopher AET
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2012-03-28 21:52:43 UTC
I want to post a slowpoke meme but it's late and I am tired. Also hi masternerdguy. You were my first.

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GallowsCalibrator
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2012-03-28 21:52:49 UTC
It will be done at some time, but it's not going to be an easy task.

masternerdguy wrote:
You don't need DX11 for asteroids to break up on impact or to see your shields. Lots of games have done both of those things with things a lot older than DX11.


Yup, but it makes physical simulation a lot easier.
Akai Kvaesir
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
#9 - 2012-03-28 21:59:30 UTC
yeah it COULD be done now, but why not hurry up and upgrade to DX11? it's the standard now in AAA titles as it is, why not bring EVE into that category too? also, the thought of internal ship destruction makes me wet myself with glee, so there's that. certainly would make fleeing from fights a lot more interesting past getting safed up, imagine trying to hide the fact your ship literally is falling apart while you make the six or so jumps to get repairs...you goons out there would love that. makes ganking mission runners a helluva lot easier.

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masternerdguy
Doomheim
#10 - 2012-03-28 22:22:58 UTC
Akai Kvaesir wrote:
yeah it COULD be done now, but why not hurry up and upgrade to DX11? it's the standard now in AAA titles as it is, why not bring EVE into that category too? also, the thought of internal ship destruction makes me wet myself with glee, so there's that. certainly would make fleeing from fights a lot more interesting past getting safed up, imagine trying to hide the fact your ship literally is falling apart while you make the six or so jumps to get repairs...you goons out there would love that. makes ganking mission runners a helluva lot easier.


Let's embrace the bleeding edge microsoft proprietary API and make it as hard as possible for people on FreeBSD/Linux to use wine to play EVE. That sounds like great marketing!

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adam smash
Department of Gub'nent Welfare
Harkonnen Federation
#11 - 2012-03-28 22:25:09 UTC
Akai Kvaesir
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
#12 - 2012-03-28 23:13:20 UTC
adam smash wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC4y2T0-skM

yep we need dx 11 LOL

I honestly can't tell if your sarcastic or not. To me, that all just looks sexy. If your problem is that your computer isn't hard enough to handle it, well, internet spaceships is sirrious bizness.

As to using linux to play eve, great job, but how many EVE players play thru wine on linux, instead of using windows? And that isn't meaning to be offensive to those who use linux, i would but i suck at coding and dont want to spend four years getting my computer ready to use; that said im all for opensource, and I don't very much like MSuck, but hey thats life.

I guess I'm just not really seeing the downside to upgrading EVE to DX11, but I'd love to hear something constructively informative as to why it's a bad thing.

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adam smash
Department of Gub'nent Welfare
Harkonnen Federation
#13 - 2012-03-28 23:25:07 UTC
Ya it does look sexy... it was from like 2005..

I'd link game 1 but their is no trailer for it... it looks JUST as good I think that game is 2001?

Ya point is ccp coulda done all this with OUT dx 11...

This is a real *Mod* off the nexus 1 engine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAam9HmeLoE

lul wut... mod of a 2001 game... looks better than eve.
Klandi
Consortium of stella Technologies
#14 - 2012-03-28 23:31:08 UTC
Asked already - no response

I am aware of my own ignorance and have checked my emotional quotient - thanks for asking
Akai Kvaesir
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
#15 - 2012-03-28 23:47:59 UTC
adam smash wrote:
Ya it does look sexy... it was from like 2005..

I'd link game 1 but their is no trailer for it... it looks JUST as good I think that game is 2001?

Ya point is ccp coulda done all this with OUT dx 11...

This is a real *Mod* off the nexus 1 engine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAam9HmeLoE

lul wut... mod of a 2001 game... looks better than eve.

Well if we can do better without DX11, lets see some tech vid of that. Let's just make EVE sexier, I mean, why wouldn't you want to do that, CCP?

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