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@gdark100: Could you tell me if the textures are ALL black on glN64 with the same games you tested with GLideN64?On Mali400MP, textures works perfect on all plugins, except glideN64, on the tested games (on glideN64 all textures are black like show in the screenshots a few posts back). On PVR 540, textures looks OK, but it runs at less than 1 fps I think, very slow. All other plugins have acceptable speeds (at least on SM64).
@gdark100: Please,do tell us the results with glN64,if you have textures where they are black in GLideN64,then it will help Gonetz to fix the Mali issue by utilizing the Android glN64 source code.
Im not being an asshole. Sorry if I sound like that. Totally agree with what you said, but gonetz made the development of this plugin his full time job (with Indiegogo campaign money). Also he have a very tight time to work on the plugin, like he said a few posts ago, so it would be better to fix critical problems first (like the plugin barely working on kinda a lot of GLES2 devices). Of course, is up to him to decide what is priority...Come on, don't be that a$$hole, the dev team are working hard fixing things, they have real jobs and lifes, i am a rookie developer and i know that some things needs time to debug and fix themI've pushed commit which fixes paths for texture library. It uses the same path for hires pack texture, as Rice video. It does not have much sense until problem with boost exists. But if boost problem will be fixed, texture library should be fully functional.Texture pack library is kinda irrelevant when you have a plugin that doesnt even display the textures in the first place.
I've pushed commit which fixes paths for texture library. It uses the same path for hires pack texture, as Rice video. It does not have much sense until problem with boost exists. But if boost problem will be fixed, texture library should be fully functional.Texture pack library is kinda irrelevant when you have a plugin that doesnt even display the textures in the first place.
So besides making the GLES2 version render correctly and position stuff correctly,should it be primarily optimized for performance and non-crashing/non-freezing?if I was gonetz, I would focus on speed. From what I understood, the main focus of this plugin was emulation accuracy and some neat features. GLES2 doesnt support those features through, and also doesnt support some of the necessary stuff to run some effects correct. So, to avoid it being just another Glide64 for GLES2, he could work on speed. A bunch of games work slow on older devices, and be able to play those would be awesome
All about the GLES2 version:
And is it possible to bring code from Glide64 to it to fix some of the issues?
Or would you like to take a different approach and perfect the Glide64 plugin by placing as much of GLideN64 code as you can into it to apply most of the missing framebuffer effects and improve performance?
Just trying to stretch out the options here.
(Conker's BFD and Mario Tennis are two of those games that i can't play on my phone cause its too slow)
Here the PowerVR SGX 540 compatible build:No changes on Mali400 MP device, and it is now working on PVR SGX 540 at slideshow speed. Recorded a video because whynot: https://youtu.be/NSpWc1PzuMM (swtiched to gln64 at middle-to-end for speed comparasion)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0YqMPjGo3B2YUZ5dzk3RmdHWHc/view?usp=sharing
I had to disable fog blend modes to make shader program compiled for this GPU.
Works very slow with and without FB emulation.
Just tried to run GLideN64 on Samsung Galaxy 2. Not sure which GPU it uses. No errors in logs. Textures do not load at all.Cant you port the functions that deal with textures from gln64 for GLES2 to your plugin until you "fix" the problem? So Ill know what is wrong and will have a possible solution.
@gdark100 - from which of your devices these screenshots? As I know, my Note 2 is powered by Mali400, and I have almost no glitches or speed issues. Some games crashes, but those which work run pretty well.Galaxy S2 Lite (Samsung Janice).
@retroben GLES2 does not support glblitFrameBuffer.
Yesterday I managed to run GLES2 build of my plugin on NVidia Shield tablet. I rewrote large part of code to get that result. Today I had been porting my work on true GLES2 device and found that my yesterday struggle was just a warm-up before the real battle. I forgot how limited GLES2 is. Lots of things which I considered as basic just do not present here. I feel myself as returning back to stone age. I rewrote all " switch case" with "if else". I replaced "texture" with "texture2D". And so on. Lots of plugin's functionality is disabled because I don't know how to implement it with GLES2 functionality. For example, my mip-mapping code requires textureLod function, which is not supported here. My code is all perforated by "#ifdef #endif" because GLES2 can't do this and requires special code for that. It looks ugly.Tested it here, heavy graphical glitches and poor speed, but it is probably expected since youre rewriting lots of code...
Nevertheless, I finally got it working on my Note 2. The work is not finished and I will not push it to repo yet. However, I built an apk with current code. You may try it on your device. I was afraid that GLES2 will run slow, but speed is ok despite of plenty of debug output. Download link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0YqMPjGo3B2WmZON0ZkdXRNZWs/view?usp=sharing
What we need is improved performance on the emulator's side itself because in reality,it is a tad slow.Must agree with you, yesterday I tried to play the old n64 version of Spiderman, that I used to play on computer when I was younger, for the nostalgia, and it was lagging a bit. It was not too slow, but the lag was annoying, so I started to play around with settings, and the only plugin that worked smooth was gln64, with the enhancements disabled, but the polygons started to glitch out with this plugin, and that was even more annoying. So I had to play the PS1 version, since it have a weaker hardware compared to the n64, it worked smooth as butter
Tis' the sad truth.
