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Water Shader with alternative rendering for older PCs?

by Alex (Stalker) Sakablukow · in Torque Game Engine · 10/29/2006 (11:37 pm) · 2 replies

I have a question about this ressource:
http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=10357

how i have found in the ressource-thread, here is no check for shader version
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But there isn't any kind of check for pixel shader version, so there's no guarantee the shaders will compile on 1.4 hardware (they'll surely NOT compile in 1.1 hardware, due to dependent texture coord lookups).
So if you try to start a game with the water-shader on a older graphic card, you see no water (have tested it).

Its here a simle possibility to check out if we have have support for this shader, and if not, to render the water in old way?

#1
10/30/2006 (3:13 pm)
It's a good question, I hope someone can answer it.
#2
10/31/2006 (7:34 am)
I can try to write alternative rendering, but i need to know if the shader is supported or not..