[sldev] branches/shadow-draft missing llrender.cpp

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-05-27, at 07:24, Dave Parks wrote:
> A number of people have been e-mailing me directly complaining that  
> this doesn't work with their GeForce 7 GPU.  GeForce 7 was  
> introduced in June 2005, which means it would be starting preschool  
> in the fall.

But there were new GeForce 7 cards released right up to the  
introduction of the GeForce 8, and the GF8 wasn't ready for prime  
time in SL for quite a while after introduction, because of teething  
troubles with its new "general purpose" architecture. Even a year ago  
the 79xx were still arguably the best option for SL, and those  
weren't cheap cards.

And what about ATI?

> It's old enough to talk in complete sentences, it's beyond  
> obsolete.  Frankly, drawing the line at GeForce 8 (not even current  
> gen any more) for a still-in-development high end feature is  
> generous.  That would be like Crytek saying they're not going to  
> add any features to Crysis that are DirectX 10.0 only (probably a  
> bad example what with the whole Vista thing, but you see my point).

So you're saying it's only a matter of new features, and you will  
continue to support the current shaders?