Backface culling

[Ian]

Our current backface culling code works 99.9% of the time. But it's clearly failing in edge cases

In La machine guns there is a giant missing poly in the floor


I thought it could have been a bad rom dump, or some other crazy error. However the poly data is there. It's just being backface culled.

Here it is marked in nik's debugging tool


Finding the actual rom model
All using the same matrix, so it's not a problem with the determinant


Flipping over the model


Oh hai there missing polygon >_<

Not sure how the hardware is doing the backface culling. Because some polys clearly we are meant to see their backfaces (for reflections etc). In my code I am calculate the matrix determinant, to see if the matrix flipped the poly winding, and if so to cull the vertices. But perhaps the h/w is doing something else.

[Bart]

I had never noticed this! I guess I must have thought it was some weird shadow. What was required to fix it? My rendering engine also has this bug (although I want to eventually completely remove my engine in favor of yours, so no need to fix the bug there).

[sonic32]

Emulator is no longer almost no defects, incredibly
I do not know whether it is aware of the problem, or this is a known problem that is in emulator long ago, this error is almost invisible, only in certain sections of the game


The Scud Race and it is strange that only in this game there a missing 3D(stone), 2D polygons, maybe it has something to do (Backface culling?)missing parts will appear in the(Beginer race),(Medium race)

[Ian]

Can you get a comparison screenshot from the real h/w. Scud actually has a few holes in the sky I noticed on the real hw. They aren't using sky boxes and instead painted some random polys at a distance to cover the gaps.

[sonic32]

Ok, I did not know that the missing parts are contained and sky
original hardware,
I tried to look for on Youtube but I can not seem to find it.
But if he does Hardware Model 3 then all is OK
Thank you for the explanation Ian