Comments on: Star Wars: Trench Run game released for iPhone http://www.loopinsight.com/2009/11/17/star-wars-trench-run-game-released-for-iphone/ Making Sense of Technology Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:44:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: PaulB http://www.loopinsight.com/2009/11/17/star-wars-trench-run-game-released-for-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-7337 PaulB Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:28:46 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/?p=2603#comment-7337 Actually you don't need lighting to see the scene, it can be all drawn with lighting switched off and using pre-lit textures. Don't forget that this is OpenGL ES, not real life :-) Dynamic lighting isn't normally used on mobile games, it's too compute intensive as mobile GPUs accelerate pixel operations, not transforms and lighting. Actually you don’t need lighting to see the scene, it can be all drawn with lighting switched off and using pre-lit textures. Don’t forget that this is OpenGL ES, not real life :-)

Dynamic lighting isn’t normally used on mobile games, it’s too compute intensive as mobile GPUs accelerate pixel operations, not transforms and lighting.

]]> By: Harvard Irving http://www.loopinsight.com/2009/11/17/star-wars-trench-run-game-released-for-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-7327 Harvard Irving Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:02:02 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/?p=2603#comment-7327 So, "lighting" is a "special effect" now? It would be hard to see anything without lighting. So, “lighting” is a “special effect” now? It would be hard to see anything without lighting.

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