U3DC massive rendering and video export

Written by alejo on December 4th, 2008

I’ve just been playing with the new 1.02 version of Universal 3D Chess and having fun with a couple of new features. Acutally, they might not be the most useful features in the net, but the video export may be welcomed for viewing games when the platform doesn’t allow SGF files (i.e. some portable devices).

Massive rendering allows you to activate at once lots and lots of games on your screen. The first attempt I did, loading 100 games at once was quite funny, but then I overclocked the graphic card just to find out that 420 games loaded at the same time is too much for my computer. Anyway, here you have the picture of the 420 games:

And, on the next video you can watch a sample made with the new “video export” feature.

The video above has a 720×480 resolution with 25 images per second and lasts for 45 seconds. The total file size compressed with Xvid with 80% rate is 5,41 MB.

Here are the specifications of my laptop, so that you get an idea of how this might look like on yours:
-Dual Core T9100 (2,5Ghz, 6Mb Cache L2).
-4 Gigs DDR2.
-Nvidia 8600GT overclocked to 8700GT.
Obviously, the graphics card is the slowest part of the whole, but it still gives good results when it comes to Go graphics ;)

Indeed, any Quad Core with a couple of 9800 GTX working on SLI may easily reach the 500 games with a decent frame-per-second average. I’ll be waiting for your images.

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2 Comments to “U3DC massive rendering and video export”

1. Posted by Tony Bragagnolo, December 6th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

Wooh – lot of chess here :D

2. Posted by Alejo, December 7th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

Well, the program is actually supposed to end up playing both chess and go.

Since it’s developed from SunXi screensaver, it’s firstly focused on Go.

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