Nexuiz On PS3?

[shak]

hello, i was wondering if making a native port of Nexuiz to the PS3 was possible. Or even playing nexuiz on the Ps3 using the "other OS" with the graphics card, wifi and controller working .

Also if anyone is able to create something like this i would be willing to pay them a fairly large amount of money. (50ish bucks)

[morfar]

I tried getting Nexuiz to work with psubuntu on ps3. No success. I don't think the kernel can access all opengl features yet or something like that...

[KadaverJack]

Last thing i heard was that Linux on ps3 didn't even support 2D acceleration, not to speak of OpenGL. (3D acceleration might even be restricted by the hypervisor...)

And as for a native port: development consoles are very expensive and the licence for the sdk if probably incompatible with GPL.

[shak]

thanx for the quick replies... i was really looking forward to nexuiz on my PS3. .. but i guess im gonna have to wait a cople of years or so for it.. does anyone know of a game very similar to nexuiz for the PS3? cause i am absolutly addicted to nexuiz but only have a laptop with integrated and two awful pcs. thanks

[Shoe]

UT3 and Nex are sorta similar in very basic respects - though visually they look a lot different, the weapons often boil down to the same things and they share a lot of game types (DM, TDM, CTF, etc.)

[[-z-]]

This would be pretty sweet, it'd be easier to get my friends to try .

[:)]

Since console profits come from game license fees, Sony has blocked access to accelerated video through their hypervisor, as KadaverJack noted. That rules out playing Nexuiz on a ps3 under an "other OS". The game OS requires purchase of the ps3 development kit, which I'm sure isn't cheap.

I think the only way we'll see 3d indie games on the ps3 is through ray-tracing rendering, since as far as I know that would be suited to a system with many cores but no accelerated video. However, I don't know what I'm talking about here.

[Shoe]

Since console profits come from game license fees, Sony has blocked access to accelerated video through their hypervisor, as KadaverJack noted. That rules out playing Nexuiz on a ps3 under an "other OS". The game OS requires purchase of the ps3 development kit, which I'm sure isn't cheap.

I think the only way we'll see 3d indie games on the ps3 is through ray-tracing rendering, since as far as I know that would be suited to a system with many cores but no accelerated video. However, I don't know what I'm talking about here.

In theory could the video calls be piped to their own separate core for software rendering that'd perform quickly?

[Blµb]

isn't there a mesa project for PS3?

[SavageX]

Albeit the "real" 3D hardware is guarded and blocked by the PS3 Hypervisor one can get some level of usable OpenGL acceleration by using the Cell SPUs

http://www.mesa3d.org/cell.html

it's very much work in progress, but I guess it may give "good enough" speed one day for lower Nexuiz quality.