Twilight princess hd texture pack comparison

Realistically, the only thing limiting the quality of the Dolphin emu is probable the skill of the person writing the shaders and the performance overhead of the emulation.

Dolphin on the other hand has been going a little longer and is running on an unconstrained platform. Likely that team will not have been all software engineers/rendering specialists but rather artists, play testers and performance profiling and a chunk of the time will have been spent on just re-compressing original assets and creating new textures. This port was likely done by a handful of people working within the constraints of a fixed function system for < 9 months.

Perhaps a better way of thinking about it would be you're comparing two ports. You can do a MASSIVE amount in programmable shaders and compute that simply won't be possible/viable on the WiiU. If that's correct then the emulator has already effectively ported the game to afully programmable GPU and by extension has access to the full range of shader code available to any modern game engine. Certainly not at the level they can abandon their fixed function hardware and just do everything with shaders.Ĭonversely, despite not knowing much about Dolphin I'd assume it's running on a modern GPU and using shaders to emulate the functionality of the Gamecube.

I haven't kept up but I assume WiiU probably does have shading capability but it's got to be very modest/limited. Gamecube was a fixed function GPU and therefore the games for that GPU are going to used fixed function techniques. I think there's just a misunderstanding of the different approaches here. Any ideas on why the same lighting and shadow technology from Wind Waker HD wouldn't be implemented in Twilight Princess HD? DF made note that the shadows in Winder Waker HD were actually pretty low res, but because of the textures and filtering they got along well with the aesthetics of the game. From what I can tell, this looks like little more than Twilight Princess running on Dolphin with the HD texture pack. Tantalus has been working on this port since at least February. I went back a took a look at Digital Foundry's analysis of Winder Waker HD, and their assessment of its improvements. Wind Waker HD had gutted its lighting engine, but from what I can tell, this looks to be the same lighting engine used in the original. Outside of that, I am struggling to see many improvements. So far the obvious ones are a lot of high res textures, and a bump in rendering resolution that I am thinking is 1080p.

Alright fellas, this isn't a thread to voice your opinion on if you think it looks great or awful, but to take a look at the upgrades made to the game.

Twilight princess hd texture pack comparison