Anaglyph mode - 3D gameplay

I want an anaglyph option in the graphic settings.

So far, 3D is been a great enhancement to the games I've tried it on. Unfortunately, CoH is OpenGL and won't work with any existing third party Direct3D-based solutions. We can't even try a OpenGL -> Direct3D wrapper because the game engine rejects it as an "unsupported video card".

Everything I read about it says that it should be relatively painless to implement. On the other hand, it seems that for an OpenGL game, it might need to be "baked in" to the game itself rather than an external extension.

So - What would it take to get a dev to spend a day exploring the possibility of adding an anaglyph setting to the graphics options?

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Yes. This topic comes up a lot.

And no, there's nothing the developers have to do here to enable Stereoscopic 3D.

Stereoscopic 3D is handled by the graphics driver.

Most games that run in Stereoscopic 3D through Nvidia Surround View or IZ3D have had absolutely ZERO input or development from the game developer

Your best bet is to contact IZ3D and let them know you are waiting on Stereoscopic 3D support for City of Heroes.

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None of those games you mention are OpenGL games. That's why they work, or don't, with iZ3D or with Nvidia 3D Discover. Direct3D games work. OpenGL games don't.

CoH is OpenGL.

There are things that could be done, but CoH defeats them. As I mentioned above - The external wrapper that might affect a bridge between CoH and iZ3D, for instance, won't work because CoH contains software in its own drivers that attempt to determine what video card the player is using. If it's "unsupported", the game won't start at all.

Installing any kind of OpenGL -> Direct3D wrapper results in an "unsupported" video card, despite the fact that the video card is unchanged.

When something in the game decides pre-emptively to cancel the game launch, I can't really see how I can put that onto the provider of the 3D driver software.

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I have little to add to the topic, other than the fact that I'm ******* glad that I have Ad Block Plus, so that I can block you visually painful avatar. Please don't do something like that.

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Well, then, I'm also glad you have it.

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Not everybody does. It would be a kindness to other people on the forums for you to change your avatar.

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