Renderer question

Maratanos · January 22nd, 2009

Okay, so I've been going through Zelda: Wind Waker and I'm trying to understand something. It very clearly is making the decision to render everything that's in-frame, regardless of whether or not an opaque surface is in between it and the camera. So my question is this: is that something that was done as a result of lazy programmers at Nintendo, or is that something that needs to be resolved by the emulation programmers?

Maratanos · January 25th, 2009

Please, I really think somebody should answer this question. In some cases a resolution of this issue, if possible, could provide an improvement of up to 15 FPS.

**ector** · January 26th, 2009

It's a result of "lazy programmers at Nintendo". There's nothing Dolphin can do about it.

Besides, it won't really help cases where an entire island is visible anyway very much - and since the game is able to render that at full framerate on the real cube, there's no reason for the game to spend much time avoiding to render hidden things.

January 22nd, 2009	#1 (permalink)
Maratanos Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: USA Posts: 18	Renderer question Okay, so I've been going through Zelda: Wind Waker and I'm trying to understand something. It very clearly is making the decision to render everything that's in-frame, regardless of whether or not an opaque surface is in between it and the camera. So my question is this: is that something that was done as a result of lazy programmers at Nintendo, or is that something that needs to be resolved by the emulation programmers?

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January 25th, 2009	#2 (permalink)
Maratanos Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: USA Posts: 18	Please, I really think somebody should answer this question. In some cases a resolution of this issue, if possible, could provide an improvement of up to 15 FPS.

January 26th, 2009	#3 (permalink)
ector Emu author Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 417	It's a result of "lazy programmers at Nintendo". There's nothing Dolphin can do about it. Besides, it won't really help cases where an entire island is visible anyway very much - and since the game is able to render that at full framerate on the real cube, there's no reason for the game to spend much time avoiding to render hidden things.