New 3D renderer in Cogwheel

Monday, 10th August 2009

I have written a new 3D-compatible renderer for Cogwheel. It holds two textures, one for each eye, and uses one of a number of different effect file techniques to mix the two views.

Row-interleaved 3D

Based on the interlacing work from the previous entry, the first technique is one that uses interleaved rows. I'm not really sure if there's a good way to convert texture coordinates into device coordinates, so am passing in the viewport height as a parameter and hoping that floating point errors don't trip me up (they haven't, yet).

float4 RowInterleavedPixelShader(VertexPositionTexture input) : COLOR0 {
	float row = input.Texture.y * ViewportHeight * 0.5f;
	if (abs(round(row) - row) < 0.1f) {
		return tex2D(LeftEyeSampler, input.Texture);
	} else {
		return tex2D(RightEyeSampler, input.Texture);
	}
}

Alternate pixel centres may also pose a problem in the future. If anyone had any recommendations, suggestions or warnings on the way I'm detecting the evenness or oddness of a particular "scanline" then I'd appreciate hearing them!

Colunn-interleaved 3D Chequerboard-interleaved 3D

I have also added two other interleaving modes; one in columns and another in a chequerboard pattern. I included these two as I've seen that some 3D LCD panels use a column interleaving pattern (I suppose that with a lenticular lens in front of such a panel you may not even need 3D glasses) and apparently Sharp have displays that use the chequerboard pattern.

I have also taken advantage of pixel shaders to create colour and monochrome anaglyphs (previously calculated in software), though neither look as good as the above full-colour modes for shutter glasses or similar hardware.

There are a few issues I need to sort out first before I can release this; for example, there's no way to set whether the first row/column/pixel is for the left or right eye. More problematic is the removal of support for non power-of-two textures; the Master System's 256×192 display is fine, but the Game Gear's 160×144 display gets rounded up to 192 pixels wide (and yes, I know that's not a power of two) on my video card. I also mean to give Promit's SlimTune profiler a look to see if I can optimise some of the less efficient pieces of my code. The C# version of emu2413 is probably a good candidate, being a "dumb" translation from the original macro-heavy C.

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