A genuinely 3D view?

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Kerr Avon

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You know those "3D glasses" they have in cinemas sometimes, and for watching some TV programs, or some magazine articles? Where each "lense" is a different colour plastic, and so you can see a 2D image in 3D, like when you watch Jaws 3D, My Bloody Valentine 3D, etc? Well, is there a way of using these glasses with Unreal Tournament 2004 (or Unreal Tournament)? Given the proliferation of other mods and addons for the UT games, I'd imagine that some people must have attempted such a thing.

And when you think about it, since a 3D graphics card (so far as I know) simply takes all of the object data from the controlling program, and the co-ordinates and direction of the point of view of the player, and then draws what the player would see, then since the 3D card effectively knows where everything is in the virtual world, then can't either DirectX or OpenGL use this knowledge to draw 3D glasses compatible screens?

Or am I way off the mark here? Has anyone ever tried to do this for UT/UT2004 or for any other games?
 

Sportaçus

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Wouldn't have to change all the txt. and and static meshes, in the form of the ones you see in 3D comics? The red and blue dot set-up, it looks like. If you did have to do it that way I would think it would be unplayable with out the glasses.

The game itself is 3D, you don't need glass. o;
 

doogle

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If you have a recent Nvidia card, their latest drivers include 3D Vision Discover which turns normal 3D games into the red/blue 3D like you mentioned. Works perfectly with UT2004, UT3, Gears of War and many others.
Only works on Vista or Windows 7 though.

Check here for more information :)

They also have a version which uses special glasses and 120Mhz monitors to show full colour 3D stereographic images by alternating the picture for each eye with the glasses, but that requires the glasses and a monitor capable of 120Mhz refresh rates.
 

Sportaçus

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If you need help with that than you might want to post a new version of this thread in Coding or Mapping under Unreal Development.:)