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**drkIIRaziel** · April 2nd, 2007

PowerVR does rendering using span sorting so yes , it doesnt need a Z Buffer.PowerVR has hardware support for Volumes ,which is used to accelerate shadows (using shadow volumes).Its quite hard to emulate that feature properly.

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drkIIRaziel Emu author Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Athens,Greece Posts: 535	PowerVR does rendering using span sorting so yes , it doesnt need a Z Buffer.PowerVR has hardware support for Volumes ,which is used to accelerate shadows (using shadow volumes).Its quite hard to emulate that feature properly.