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June 26, 2015 04:00 pm

Reverse-Engineering a Frame of "Supreme Commander"

An anonymous reader writes: When Supreme Commander was released 8 years ago, it redefined the RTS genre, with its real-time strategic zoom and its epic battles involving several thousands of units at once, while bringing a whole generation of PCs to their knees. Today an article revisits the process of rendering a frame of the game by reverse-engineering the API calls made to the GPU.All the techniques and algorithms are explained in detail, many of them still used in current video games.

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