List of games with Table Fog support
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Table fog effect summary
Fog is a special effect that is used to blend a scene into a predefined color to give the impression that "fog" is present in the scene. Fog is usually implemented as it appears in the physical world. The farther objects are, the more they are obscured by fog. Objects that are close to the observer are clearer.
Table fog, also called pixel fog, is calculated independent of vertices. Ideally, fog is calculated on a pixel basis, but many device drivers emulate this feature in software with vertex fog values. It is called table fog because traditionally tables have been used to look up fog values. The RIVA 128, RIVA128ZX and the RIVA TNT all emulate table fog using vertex based fog. The GeForce 256 supports table fog in hardware.[1][2]
Graphics cards which support table fog
Graphics cards which don't support table tog
Note: under Windows 98, partial table fog support on ATI Radeon cards can be enabled via registry tweaks. Under WindowsXP, full table fog support becomes available when Catalyst drivers version 7.11 or newer are used (screenshots).
Games which use table fog
- Flight Unlimited II (1997)[13]
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1997)[14]
- Heavy Gear II (1999)[15]
- Need for Speed: High Stakes (1999)[16][17]
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)[18]
- Thief II: The Metal Age (2000)[19]
Note: this list is incomplete. It merely shows the currently known games for which table fog use has been confirmed by testing. These games show visual differences on graphics cards that don't support table fog.
Related links
- Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures - forum discussion with screenshots
- List_of_games_with_8-bit_paletted_texture_support
References
- ↑ Rogers, D. (January 11, 2000), NVIDIA Corporation, Implementing Fog in Direct3D, (PDF)
- ↑ White, S. et al. (January 6, 2021), Microsoft Corporation, Pixel Fog (Direct3D 9), (link)
- ↑ 3DFX Voodoo 3 table fog support (screenshot)
- ↑ NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX400 table fog support (screenshot)
- ↑ Matrox G400 table fog support (screenshot)
- ↑ Matrox MGA-G400 Specification (datasheet)
- ↑ Kyro table fog support (datasheet)
- ↑ S3 Savage4 table fog support (screenshot)
- ↑ Savage4 Graphics/Video Accelerator Family Hardware Reference (datasheet)
- ↑ ATI Radeon 9000 Pro missing table fog support (screenshot)
- ↑ S3 UniChrome Pro IGP missing table fog support (screenshot)
- ↑ Permedia 2 missing table fog support (screenshot)
- ↑ Flight Unlimited II (screenshot)
- ↑ Shadows of the Empire Mission 2: Escape from Echo base (screenshot)
- ↑ Heavy Gear II - Historical Missions: Baja City (screenshot)
- ↑ Need for Speed: High Stakes Demo (screenshot)
- ↑ Need for Speed: High Stakes gameplay footage (link)
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Mission 1: Trade Federation Battleship (screenshot)
- ↑ Thief II Mission 11: Precious Cargo (screenshot)
