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Old April 2nd, 2007   #3 (permalink)
Raqia
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Originally Posted by drkIIRaziel View Post
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.
Thanks a lot for your explanation. Fantastic work on the emu btw!
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