TUTORIAL 5: Advanced Perfomance tips

Good information on assembler instruction pairing and latency penalties.

Performance Tips

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Normal Mapping Tutorial by Morten 'Sparky' Mikkelsen

This paper describes a method for doing PC-style normal mapping on the Playstation 2 by taking advantage of the GS and VU1 units. Two variations are described: A cheap two-pass solution without per-pixel normalization and a per-pixel normalized alternative which requires four passes. Download -> ps2_normalmapping.pdf