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gSPPerspNormalize

Format
#include "gbi.h"

gSPPerspNormalize(Gfx *gdl, u16 scale)
gsSPPerspNormalize(u16 scale)
Arguments
  • gdl is the pointer to the graphics display list
  • scale is the perspective normalization scale in .16 format
What This Macro Does
It normalizes the perspective. The scale value is used to scale the transformed w coordinate down prior to dividing out w to compute the screen coordinates, which are similarly scaled. The effect of this is to maximize the precision of this divide, which is computed with a limited precision in the RSP geometry engine.

Note The library macro guPerspective returns one approximation for this scale value, which is suitable for most cases. This estimate normalizes w so that w = 1.0 halfway between the near and far clipping planes.


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