After making the 3GS enhanced version of Blue Skies, I decided to take it a bit further and make a new version of Dark Raider that adds even more shader effects... Dark Raider 3GS is a specially enhanced version of Dark Raider which takes advantage of your new iPhone 3GS's graphics capabilities. The game uses high dynamic range, deferred rendering with unlimited number of dynamic lights, and per pixel lighting using normal maps. These are effects normally only found in console and PC games.... but IT'S RUNNING ON YOUR PHONE at over 30 fps! Dark Raider 3GS has the most detailed eye popping graphics of any iPhone game to date, and is the best way to show off your phone and make your friends drool! [hqyoutube]mZ0DnxLM0D4[/hqyoutube] The game was submitted tonight and is awaiting approval. Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel
Cool! I guess, I must say, I'm more interested in 3GS enhanced 3D game, still looks nice though. Couldn't you figure out how to not make it an all new app? TY
I did post screenshots. Hopefully everyone can see them? I have do not have my engine working with both versions of OpenGL in the same app yet, and it makes sense to market this to 3GS owners only. I also added cheats, so if you complete the game on each difficulty you unlock different things, like faster shotgun, free rockets and grenades, and god mode.
Previous version 3GS version In the previous version lighting was all done using software. In the 3GS version lighting is rendered using hardware. It renders the lighting to a texture and then uses that texture distorted by a normal map to light every pixel on the screen. The end result is faster and much more detailed. The high dynamic range also allows for lights to accumulate to a brightness that is higher than the screen can display. The shader then uses tone mapping to display the end result in the normal color range.
3GS has vertex and pixel shaders, and up to 8 textures at once. So you can pretty much do anything that DirectX9 / Shader model 2 cards can do on your phone.
I'm very interested in these 3GS specific games. Is this an update if you already have Dark Raider, or is this a whole new app because I don't mean to sound cheap, but I'm not sure if I can justify buying the game all over again for improved graphics.
Looks superb - and I am sort of glad that I newer to the iPhone market - I don't have old versions of games... So I don't have to double dip (like I have with half my DVD collection for BD)
Here is a video showing it in action: Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel [hqyoutube]mZ0DnxLM0D4[/hqyoutube]
And marketing like this is what is killing Blue Ray. This could easily be done as an in app Free upgrade or code that could detect what device you have. Just a bit unhappy about this
hey, hey, now...let's not all jump on RPGguy here. He's doing two very good games (Blue Skies and Dark Raider) even greater justice on 3Gs hardware. Would it be better if he simply packaged these upgrades onto the original apps so that current owners wouldn't have to buy again if and when they upgrade their devices? Sure. And it seems he's trying. But if he opts to go this route, I'm not gonna flame him for it anymore than I have Nintendo for upgrading Gamecube games onto Wii (new play control) with bumped up graphics, or Rare last gen when they upgraded Conker N64 to XBox (notice how the gap in both cases was from one gen to the gen directly after it...and by gen I'm using the gamer terminology, not Apple's use of the phrase which in their case includes slight revisions of existent tech).
