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From: Byron Forbes <hosh@ar.com.au>
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Let's hear it one more time for the road Hans!

Hans-Otto Lund wrote:
> 
> I've been looking at the "Mirror.mip" file and it seems that the file among
> other things are just a storage place for what the mirrors should contain,
> but my question is could some of you who is capable and willing to do it
> make a patch with the option to draw the mirrors only 8 times per sec as a
> minimum.This is enough to not destroy the importance of the mirrors.
> Yesterday I saw the results of only drawing the mirrors 8 times per sec on a
> TNT card and GPL was like a movie. I almost got tears in my eyes when I saw
> how nice the GPL can be.
> And as I see it a 3rd generation 3D card  of any kind can't produce that
> framerate as long as it has to draw mirror of THAT size constantly.
> I know GPL can only produce a framerate of 36 but what I saw yesterday was
> REAL 36 fps with all graphics on.
> 
> Just a thought.

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 Byron Forbes
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