A user over at StarCraft.org did some testing on StarCraft 2 custom maps and found that the API will actually allow for custom maps to be rendered in the 3D! That means with a 3D capable monitor and glasses you should be able to play StarCraft 2 in 3D sometime in the near future. Check it out at StarCraft.org! Also, in others news, beta was reset again today around 9:30 pm EST. That means all players have to start from scratch... again! Here we go! Sources: StarCraft.org
How can I tell if my monitor is 3D capable? Now if only I'd kept some of those ancient red/blue paper 3-D glasses from the theater or that 3-D Dinosaurs game I played as a kid...lord knows those will be hard to find nowadays.
Well technically you could see the above image in 3D no matter your monitor. It's only if you want to play in game that your monitor would need to be 3D capable because it has to be rendered real time.
Doubt I could do it then, I'll be lucky if my laptop can run the game normally, let alone try to turn the whole thing in 3-D.
Wouldn't the GPU need to be able to render it in 3D and not the monitor? Anyway, seems like a nice little touch to the game, although 3D is probably the least enjoyable/immersing in an RTS.
Just shows that we are becoming closer to being able to play RTS's on those 3-D interactive holograms I see in the movies. The future is here!
You'll need a 120hz monitor to run that I think and some glasses to go with that.. It's really no big news with the 3D games: http://www.nvidia.com/object/3D_Vision_Main.html
What a waste of time. By the time this is implimented in custom games, nVidia will have created 3D drivers for it. And, I doubt an ATI user is going to buy 3D glasses just for StarCraft 2
@ Deck - If I'm not misunderstanding something; you could just use the glasses you get from any 3D movie you see. I've got two pairs in my drawer as of writing this. The "new"3D in movies seems to be the same 3D Nickelodeon's "noggle goggles" provided 10 years ago. It's nice for cheap effects, but holds no real merit. I really don't understand why people are behind it. @Eon- You should read "Ender's Game".
I have read Ender's Game, but probably about a decade ago. Was a good book. I'm not sure what you mean by the new 3-D being the same as the old style years ago. Old style used red/blue to change images, hence why the glasses were colored so. However, new type of 3D, like Real3D style, use different type of light waves to affect images, hence why they look like sunglasses. So the new type of glasses won't work with the red/blue image shown in the OP. Or at least the theater I work at uses the new glasses, so I've wouldn't know where you can buy the old fashioned ones without going online to look for them. old blue/red new Real3D glasses
None of those glasses work. Those glasses simply convert the minor vibrations of the theater screen into depth. The glasses you must use for PC have high-tech chips in them which communicate with the PC and do ... something. They don't simply convert the screen image because your monitor is not a theater screen and cannot do that even if a 2D was the same as a 3D image (which it's not.) That's why they cost 200$ or more and that's why I am currently not playing Crysis in 3D. If you could just use those glasses then everyone would be using 3D. http://www.google.com/products?q=nvidia+stereoscopic+3d+glasses&aq=f These are the ONLY glasses that work. As for the new 3D is the same as the old 3D, well, that's just wrong. @EonMaster: Just because those are glases given in old children's books, doesn't mean that was the highest technology of the time In the old days, they had 3D stereoscopic technology far beyond that and I'm sure that's what BloodHawk was referring to. Nevertheless, the 3D today is far more advanced.
