ATI Crowd Demo

[Spinner]

ATI has released a new Radeon X800 based demo called Crowd. This demonstration shows the vertex shader processing power of the X800 being used to render a large crowd of soldiers (1400 in total) running across a rocky terrain. All of the models feature weighted skinned vertices and are independently animated.

http://www.short-media.com/images/news_images/2004/jun/aticrowddemo.jpg

Source: ATI (http://www.ati.com/developer/demos/rx800.html)

[Geeky1]

I liked the Ruby demo better...

[entropy]

:eek2: how bout 1400 Rubys running across a beach?

[Geeky1]

Don't make me fire up photoshop, entr0py.

[entropy]

*cough* that'd be entr0py lol .. :p just messin'
haha i can just imagine 1400 rubys prancing around... oh goodness ...

[TheGr81]

;D

[Camman]

does this demo only work on X800 cards? Ive seen it posted everywhere, how many people can even run it? Apparently my 9700 Pro cannot.

[Geeky1]

By default, the .exe will only work on X800s most likely, yes. It'll probably work with a wrapper. You could try the ruby wrapper...
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12141&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=120

[Thrax]

Buahaha. Speaking of wrappers, I remember when they introduced a wrapper for the Dawn scene, and it ran better on the 9700 series than the GeForce 5800 series..

Actually, I shouldn't be laughing, because that was true for everything.

[qparadox]

ROFL thrax :D