PS2 Alpha test emulation, aka Dual pass. the actual rendering, it is completely different). (The RSL engine they wrote is at the high level a simplified copy&paste version Having moved away from RW for these ports R* Leeds had to be reimplement some thingsĪnd they used that opportunity for some interesting graphics again. Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories.for PSP and PS2 by R* Leeds. Liberty City and Vice City were once again the setting of the games Most notable are the colour filter and vehicle rendering in SA. In their mobile releases War Drum did some - depending on point of view - nice, interesting or questionable things. (it is mostly a more polished version of the PC port)īut it also had some graphical differences, mainly vehicles, and they were integrated into SkyGFX as well. The Xbox version of SA is far less impressive compared to the PS2 and PC versions Sharptrails is another mod of mine that uses it. Out of that rwd3d9 was created,Ī library that mods can link against that extends RW with d3d9 features, mainly shaders. The initial hurdle to overcome was to be able to use Direct3D 9 in III and VC to be able Had much improved graphics over the PS2/PC versions and so the scope of the mod broadened. The Xbox releases of III and VC By R* Vienna (aka Neo) Have their differences too and thus SkyGFX for III and VC was created with much the same goal.īut PS2 graphics weren't enough. 
Which calls the PS2 platform port "Sky" (named after Sony's SKY PS2 simulator), hence SkyGFX.Įven though SA differs more drastically between platforms, GTA III and Vice City GTA III-SA are built upon the RenderWare graphics engine The original mission was to port the PS2 graphics of GTA San Andreas Since its inception SkyGFX has evolved quite a bit. I try to keep the more technical stuff out of the way as not to confuse people, The aim of this document is to document what SkyGFX does in detail.
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