OpenGL raster for Blade/Severance

Version Alpha 2 


WARNING:

Alpha version. It has some known issues, but we believe it is stable enough to be useful.
We will release a more fine tuned version soon.

This a non official raster and it is launched without support by Rebel Act Studios 
nor by Codemaster, not assuming these companies any responsability about it.


PURPOSE:

This version is released, while incomplete, because:

- People have shown an interest in knowing the extras that this version implements.

- It provides an alternative raster to D3D, which has reported problems.

- It provides a windowed mode in which you can use the console to get information about errors or modify game parameters.



SETUP:

Uncompress the zip file in the folder (Path)\Bin\Raster, where Path is where Blade/Severance has been installed.



KNOWN ISSUES:

- Gamma correction does not correspond with the values set in the game menus. Please use the setup dialog box for this.

- If you select MipMapping, the procedural textures only refresh the highest
detail level. It does not happens if your driver provides the GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap extension.

- In window mode, if you resize the window while you are in the menu, the background is corrupted.

- The information tab in the setup dialog box is empty when the dialog box has been launched from the initial game menu. This will not be fixed as the render context may be different in game and the information could not be accurate.


FIXED IN THIS RELEASE:

- Atmosphere did not affect objects reflected in the water. Now it does.

- All of the configuration options in the dialog box should work.

- Now you can see the credits.

- Added support to GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap extension for the procedural textures.

- If you used compressed textures there was a severe performance hit with procedural textures, now it's fixed.

- Fixed a bug that prevented changing to and from toon rendering while playing.


OTHER REMARKS:

- This version has been tested mainly in nVidia cards.

- 3dfx cards show significant visual errors.


Thanks
	Carlos