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79-537: [REDACTED] Look up mt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. MT , Mt , mT , mt , or Mt. may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Gaming [ edit ] MT Framework , a proprietary game engine Empty, meaning "out of ammunition ", in slang Main Tank, the person who soaks up all the damage in an MMORPG; see Tank (gaming) Moon Tycoon ,

158-505: A loading screen . Because Dragon's Dogma's levels are tens to hundreds times larger than in previous MT titles, and the structure of the game is open world , the only way they could make it work on the engine was by adapting it to be able to move in and out of memory portions of the game world as needed. Another improvement is that the engine moved from using a forward renderer to a hybrid one that makes use of deferred lighting (also known as Light Pre-Pass). This made it possible to support

237-565: A 24-hour cycle and weather variation and an "infinite" number of lights. Other changes include support for real-time variation of a character model and FXAA . Building on top of Dragon's Dogma's updated technology, Resident Evil 6 added SSAO , and improved hair rendering (based on the "Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers" paper presented at SIGGRAPH 2003) along with facial expressions and eye movement. Monster Hunter: World , released in 2018, can output in HDR . In late October 2009, it

316-529: A border area between the two regions. Some specialties are " peperoni cruschi ", a sweet and dry pepper variety very popular in Basilicata, and "Pane di Matera", a type of bread recognizable for its intense flavour and conical shape, granted Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status. Matera produces an eponymous wine which bears the Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) designation. Some dishes from

395-529: A call, text message or data received on a mobile telephone Mobile Terminal, part of a Mobile Station in the GSM system architecture Multithreading (computer architecture) , in computer hardware Multithreading (software) , in computer software Multi-topology routing (also abbreviated MTR), an extension to the OSPF internet routing protocol (RFC 4915) Mathematics and logic [ edit ] Modus tollens ,

474-420: A classical music journal Tramways & Urban Transit formerly Modern Tramway , a British magazine Music [ edit ] Marianas Trench (band) , a Canadian pop rock band Master tone , a form of musical ringtone Modern Talking , a band The Musical Times , a classical music journal Other media [ edit ] Magical Trevor , a cartoon by Jonti Picking Megatokyo ,

553-494: A complex of cave habitations excavated in the softer limestone on the gorge's western, Lucanian face. It took advantage of two streams which flow into the ravine from a spot near the Castello Tramontano, reducing the cliff's angle of drop and leaving a defensible narrow promontory in between. The central high ground, or acropolis , supporting the city's cathedral and administrative buildings, came to be known as Civita, and

632-491: A concept in logic Transportation [ edit ] Honda MT , a motorcycle Yamaha MT series , a family of motorcycles Hyundai Mega Truck , a medium-duty truck Manual transmission , a part of a car MT or Marquitrans , a Spanish microcar Units of measurement [ edit ] Megatesla (MT), the SI unit of magnetic flux density Megaton (Mt), a TNT equivalent unit of explosive power Mega tonne (Mt),

711-509: A destruction of the wagon: Saracens besiege Matera and the citizens, to protect the painting of Madonna, hid it on a little wagon. They then destroyed the wagon to keep the Saracens from taking the painting. Different hypotheses are attributed to the name of Madonna della Bruna  : the first says that the noun derives from the Lombard high-medieval term brùnja (armor/protection of knights). So

790-463: A farmer to go up on his wagon to accompany her to Matera. When she arrived to the periphery of the city, she got off the wagon and asked farmer to take her message to the bishop. In this message she said she was Christ's mother. The bishop, the clergy and the folk rushed to receive the Virgin, but they found a statue. So the statue of Madonna entered in the city on a triumphal wagon. Another legend talks about

869-590: A graduate degree in teaching; some schools use MT (Master of Teaching) rather than MAT Membership Training , trips taken by South Korean university students for the purpose of team building Motor Tanker or Motor Transport, in the name of a ship Name prefix for Merchant vessels Motor Tanker or Motor Tug Boat Muay Thai , a Thai martial art See also [ edit ] The Maria Theresa thaler , generally abbreviated MTT but sometimes also seen as MT Mountain TM (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

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948-587: A large and diverse collection of buildings related to the Christian faith, including a large number of rupestrian churches carved from the calcarenite rock of the region. These churches, which are also found in the neighbouring region of Apulia , were listed in the 1998 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund . Matera Cathedral (1268–1270) has been dedicated to Santa Maria della Bruna since 1389. Built in an Apulian Romanesque architectural style,

1027-470: A method of imaging underground structures Materials Today , a scientific journal Maxim–Tokarev , a Russian light machine gun Meitnerium , symbol Mt, a chemical element Other uses [ edit ] MT (footballer) (born 2001), Matheus Nunes Fagundes de Araújo, Brazilian footballer Maltese language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code "mt") Management team Master of Arts in Teaching ,

1106-623: A nation of Mediterranean islands .mt , the top-level Internet domain for Malta Maltese language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code mt) Martin, Slovakia (vehicle plate code MT) Matera , Italy (vehicle plate code MT) Mato Grosso (ISO 3166-2:BR subdivision code MT), a state in Brazil Montana (postal code MT), US Mountain Time Zone , a time zone in North America Religion [ edit ] Gospel of Matthew ,

1185-719: A part of the New Testament Masoretic Text , the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh) Science, technology, and mathematics [ edit ] Biology and medicine [ edit ] Biology [ edit ] Medial temporal, part of the temporal lobe of the brain Metallothionein , a protein Methyltransferase , a type of enzyme Microtubule , a component of the cytoskeleton Middle temporal area,

1264-454: A proprietary game engine Machine translation , a subfield of computational linguistics Magnetic tape data storage , a digital recording method using magnetic tape Megatransfer, in computing, equal to one million transfer operations per second Mersenne twister , a pseudorandom number generator algorithm Mistype, a declaration of a mistake or typo when typing in a live-text platform such as instant messenger Mobile-terminated,

1343-619: A rebellion of his own in September. After his departure Matera elected William Iron Arm as its count (1042), but like other towns it remained in Byzantine hands despite the Norman advances – in 1054 died Sico , the protospatharios of Matera. The city was seized in April 1064 as an independent acquisition by Robert, Count of Montescaglioso , a seditious nephew of Robert Guiscard , who profited from

1422-489: A region of the visual cortex (also called V5) where the motion of objects is analyzed Mitochondrion , an organelle found in most eukaryotic cells Medicine [ edit ] Magnetization transfer , a process contributing to image contrast in Magnetic resonance imaging Massage therapy , adding directed pressure to the body Massage therapist, the title of someone who performs massage therapy Music therapy ,

1501-491: A simulation computer game Monopoly Tycoon , a video game Muscle Tracer , an enemy in the Armored Core video game series Mythic's Team, a team made by @-MythicYT- on YouTube. Literature and journalism [ edit ] M. T. Vasudevan Nair , a Malayalam writer Meridian Tonight , a British regional news programme Motor Trend , an automotive magazine The Moscow Times The Musical Times ,

1580-466: A triumphal wagon ( ships on wheels richly designed). The Madonna's sculpture is located in a case in the transept of the cathedral dedicated to her, where there is also a fresco that portrays her. It dates back to the 13th century and it belongs to the Byzantine school. Matera is the terminal station of the Bari–Matera, a narrow gauge railroad managed by Ferrovie Appulo Lucane . The nearest airport

1659-461: A unit of mass equal to one billion kilograms (10 kg) Megatransfer, in computing, equal to one million transfer operations per second Metric ton (t), equal to one thousand kilograms Millitesla (mT), the SI unit of magnetic flux density Other uses in science and technology [ edit ] Machine taper , a system for securing accessories to a machine tool (or Morse taper, one particular type of machine taper) Magnetotellurics ,

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1738-520: A webcomic MT ( Infinity Train ) , a fictional character in the television series Infinity Train Megatron (Transformers) , a fictional robot/character in the Transformers franchise Musical theatre Businesses and organizations [ edit ] MT-Propeller , a German aircraft propeller manufacturer Mauritius Telecom , a telecommunications and Internet service provider Media Temple ,

1817-560: A website hosting company Mississauga Transit , a public transit operator in Mississauga, Ontario Monotype Corporation , a font company Movable Type , a weblog publishing system Thomas Cook Airlines (IATA airline designator code MT) Military [ edit ] Motor transport Military time Places [ edit ] Mt or Mt., an abbreviation for the word mount, meaning mountain Malta (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code MT),

1896-589: Is a veritable water cathedral, which is navigable by boat. Like other cisterns in the town, it collected rainwater that was filtered and flowed in a controlled way to the Sassi. There were also a large number of little superficial canals that fed pools and hanging gardens. Moreover, many bell-shaped cisterns in dug houses were filled up by seepage. Later, when the population increased, many of these cisterns were turned into houses and other kinds of water-harvesting systems were realised. Some of these more recent facilities have

1975-497: Is almost identical to that of Resident Evil 5 , supporting HDR rendering, self shadowing, normal mapping, color correction, gamma correction, depth of field, motion blur and anti-aliasing on the Nintendo 3DS hardware. In late January 2011, Capcom demonstrated the intro of Lost Planet 2 running on MT Framework Mobile on the "Next Generation Portable", later renamed to PlayStation Vita . The Vita version of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

2054-512: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages MT Framework Throughout the years MT Framework received various updates, most significant of which was a major revision called MT Framework 2.0 , introduced with Lost Planet 2 in 2010. Additionally, two offshoots of the engine have been made; MT Framework Lite targets the Wii and PlayStation 3 consoles, and MT Framework Mobile powers games for

2133-447: Is supported to help smooth 30 fps games; Light-Space Perspective Shadow Maps , a form of shadow mapping , is used for the rendering of the shadows and a technique called Percentage Closer Filtering to smooth them; normal mapping , HDR rendering , soft particles , variable amounts of MSAA , and a technique with which particles can be rendered at 1/4th of the full resolution for the benefit of performance; basic physics handling by

2212-878: The Last Judgement has been discovered. Two other important churches in Matera, both dedicated to the Apostle Peter, are San Pietro Caveoso (in the Sasso Caveoso ) and San Pietro Barisano (in the Sasso Barisano ). San Pietro Barisano was recently restored in a project by the World Monuments Fund , funded by American Express . The main altar and the interior frescoes were cleaned, and missing pieces of mouldings, reliefs, and other adornments were reconstructed from photographic archives or surrounding fragments. There are many other churches and monasteries dating back throughout

2291-491: The Byzantine invasion of Italy in 1156 . Lombard aristocrats survived with a reduced status: around 1150, Guaimar (III) of Capaccio, a descendant of Lombard princes, held a sub-fief near Matera from the count of Montescaglioso. Meanwhile, after a period of association with the Byzantine metropolis of Otranto from 968, the episcopal see of Matera was reclaimed by the archbishopric of Acerenza. A new cathedral church of St Eustace

2370-523: The Nintendo 3DS , PlayStation Vita , Android and iOS . As of 2014, Capcom's stance on the future of the engine is that while it will continue to be used to create games for the seventh generation of video game consoles , smartphones and handhelds . Panta Rhei and the RE Engine , which was used to develop Resident Evil 7: Biohazard , are intended to be MT Framework's successors for developing games for

2449-413: The Nintendo 3DS , and in late September 2010, the two games along with Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D and Mega Man Legends 3 were revealed to be running on MT Framework Mobile, a new version of the engine, based on MT Framework 2.0, specifically designed for the Nintendo 3DS. Capcom noted that thanks to MT Framework Mobile, Resident Evil: Revelations features a graphics rendering pipeline that

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2528-602: The Palaeolithic (10th millennium BC), it is renowned for its rock-cut urban core, whose twin cliffside zones are known collectively as the Sassi . Matera lies on the right bank of the Gravina river, whose canyon forms a geological boundary between the hill country of Basilicata (historic Lucania ) to the south-west and the Murgia plateau of Apulia to the north-east. The city began as

2607-688: The Terra d'Otranto , in Apulia . Later it was capital of the province of Basilicata, a position it retained until 1806, when Joseph Bonaparte assigned it to Potenza . In 1927, it became capital of the new province of Matera . Since local government political reorganization in 1993, Matera has been governed by the City Council of Matera. Voters elect directly 32 councilors and the Mayor of Matera every five years. Matera has gained international fame for its ancient town,

2686-576: The Unreal Engine 3 engine for adoption as their internal engine, but decided against it due to some performance limitations and difficulties of getting technical support from its American developer, Epic Games , in Japan. As such, the decision to further develop MT Framework and extend its internal use was made. Development of MT Framework had begun in September 2004 based on the Onimusha 3 engine. The engine

2765-510: The eighth generation of video game consoles . Before the creation of MT Framework, Capcom's internal development teams were each using engines and tools of their own design, a process that was deemed inefficient. Thus, the decision to build an engine that would support the needs of all of Capcom's developers was made. At first MT Framework was being developed to be used in Dead Rising and Lost Planet: Extreme Condition only. Capcom evaluated

2844-463: The government relocation of all their inhabitants to new housing in the Piano followed between 1952 and the 1970s. A new law in 1986 opened the path to restoration and reoccupation of the Sassi, this time – as noted by the architectural historian Anne Toxey – for the benefit of the wealthy middle class . The recognition of the Sassi, labelled la città sotterranea ("the underground city"), together with

2923-624: The rupestrian churches across the Gravina as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in December 1993 has assisted in attracting tourism and accelerated the reclaiming of the site. In 2019, Matera was declared a European Capital of Culture . Before its integration into the modern Italian state, the city of Matera had experienced the rule of the Romans , Lombards , Arabs , Byzantines , Swabians , Angevins, Aragonese, and Bourbons . Though scholars continue to debate

3002-483: The "Sassi di Matera". The Sassi originated in a prehistoric troglodyte settlement, and these dwellings are thought to be among the first ever human settlements in what is now Italy. The Sassi are habitations dug into the calcareous rock itself, which is characteristic of Basilicata and Apulia . Many of them are really little more than small caverns, and in some parts of the Sassi a street lies on top of another group of dwellings. The ancient town grew up on one slope of

3081-540: The Arabs. In 994 Matera was temporarily captured by the Arabs after a four-month siege. The town continued to play a part in Byzantine governance: in June 1019 the chartoularios Stephanos of Matera assisted in the re-foundation of Troia . But civic unrest was also endemic and in 1040 the Byzantine judge Romanos was murdered at Matera by the local auxiliary troops during a wave of assaults on Byzantine officials that swept across

3160-499: The Bone " (2016) by Metallica . The Feast of the Madonna della Bruna, held in Matera on 2 July each year, is notable for its religious procession featuring an ornamented chariot which is then pulled apart by spectators. The origins of the festival are not well known, because its story has changed while being handed down from generation to generation. One of these legends says that a woman asked

3239-513: The Byzantine garrison of Naples. The precarious Byzantine rule had to contend with the ambitions of Lombard towns and nobles against the background of frequent incursions from the neighbouring duchy of Capua-Benevento and from Arab Sicily. In 940 Matera was besieged, possibly with local assistance, by the Lombards. On 25 January 982 the army of Otto II camped before the walls of Matera on its way from Salerno to Taranto, ostensibly marching against

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3318-502: The Byzantines exploited the local need for protection from Arab raiding and internal Lombard divisions to retake Apulia, which became the theme of Longobardia in 891/2. Already by 887, Matera's local Lombard elite bore Byzantine titles, the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno had to conduct business before the Byzantine judge and town notables of Matera, and the Greeks of Matera made up

3397-564: The Grotta dei pipistrelli (cave of the bats), and to the Neolithic. The symbol of the park is the lesser kestrel . The San Giuliano Regional Reserve, a protected area established in 2000, includes Lake San Giuliano , an artificial reservoir created by the damming of the Bradano river, and the river sections upstream and downstream of it. Colle di Timmari, a green plateau located about 15 km from

3476-534: The church has a 52 m tall bell tower, and next to the main gate is a statue of the Maria della Bruna, backed by those of Saints Peter and Paul. The main feature of the façade is the rose window, divided by sixteen small columns. The interior is on the Latin cross plan, with a nave and two aisles. The decoration is mainly from the 18th century Baroque restoration, but recently a Byzantine-style 14th-century fresco portraying

3555-484: The city, dominates the Bradano valley and the San Giuliano lake. It is a pleasant residential area, and on the top of the hill there is the small Sanctuary of San Salvatore, dating back to 1310, and an important archaeological area. The Tramontano Castle , begun in the early 16th century by Gian Carlo Tramontano, Count of Matera , is probably the only other structure that is above ground of any great significance outside

3634-457: The clinical use of music to improve health and quality of life Medical technologist , a healthcare professional who performs diagnostic tests Medical transcriptionist , an allied-health professional who transcribes dictated medical reports Motivational therapy , a treatment for substance abuse Methyltestosterone Computing and telecommunications [ edit ] .mt , the top-level Internet domain for Malta MT Framework ,

3713-417: The console versions in 2010, added support for DirectX 11 features such as tessellation , displacement mapping and the use of DirectCompute for soft body simulation and wave simulation . Later MT Framework 2.0 games released on PC were DirectX 9 only. Another significant update was made for Dragon's Dogma , released in 2012. Previous MT Framework games were "stage-based" with each stage divided by

3792-461: The date the dwellings were first occupied in Matera, and the continuity of their subsequent occupation, the area of what is now Matera is believed to have been settled since the Palaeolithic (10th millennium BC). This makes it potentially one of the oldest continually inhabited settlements in the world . Alternatively, it has been suggested by Anne Toxey that the area has been "occupied continuously for at least three millennia". The town of Matera

3871-527: The edge of the canyon for its defence is invisible from the western approach. The tripartite urban structure of Civita and the two Sassi, relatively isolated from each other, survived until the 16th century, when the centre of public life moved outside the walls to the Piazza Sedile in the open plain (the Piano) to the west, followed by the shift of the elite residences to the Piano from the 17th century onwards. By

3950-437: The end of the 18th century, a physical class boundary separated the overcrowded Sassi of the peasants from the new spatial order of their social superiors in the Piano, and geographical elevation came to coincide with status more overtly than before, to the point where the two communities no longer interacted socially. Yet it was only at the turn of the 20th century that the Sassi were declared unfit for modern habitation, and

4029-552: The game features some minor graphical improvements and thus might be using an updated version of the engine Matera Matera ( Italian pronunciation: [maˈtɛːra] , locally [maˈteːra] ; Materano : Matàrë [maˈtæːrə] ) is a city and the capital of the Province of Matera in the region of Basilicata , in Southern Italy . With a history of continuous occupation dating back to

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4108-425: The history of the Christian church. Some are simple caves with a single altar, occasionally accompanied by a fresco, often located on the opposite side of the ravine. Some are complex cave networks with large underground chambers, thought to have been used for meditation by the rupestrian and cenobitic monks. Matera was built above a deep ravine called Gravina of Matera that divides the territory into two areas. Matera

4187-475: The integrated Havok middleware, and a custom physics engine to handle character-local physics calculations such as cloth physics and inverse kinematics . The first significant update to the engine was the release of the PC version of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition , which was the second PC game to support DirectX 10 and the first with a DirectX 10 demo. Ambient occlusion and parallax occlusion mapping support

4266-476: The involvement of his uncle further south. After count Robert died in July 1080, Matera accepted the rule of his brother Geoffrey of Conversano . Geoffrey's son Alexander joined a revolt against Roger II in 1132, but he fled before the advance of the king to Byzantium and left his son Geoffrey in Matera, whose inhabitants gave the city away to avoid being massacred by the royal troops. Alexander later took part in

4345-506: The local cuisine include: Because of the ancient primeval-looking scenery in and around the Sassi, it has been used by filmmakers as the setting for ancient Jerusalem. The following famous biblical period motion pictures were filmed in Matera: Other movies filmed in the city include: Matera appears in the music videos for the songs " Sun Goes Down " (2014) by Robin Schulz and " Spit Out

4424-527: The multicore CPUs that are being used in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles, as well as modern PCs. For Lost Planet: Extreme Condition and its use of MT Framework, Capcom highlighted the following features supported by the engine: a light motion blur effect called "2.5D motion blur" (based on the "Stupid OpenGL Shader Tricks" presentation by Simon Green at the Game Developers Conference 2003)

4503-646: The name might mean Madonna of defense . Another hypothesis is that the name comes from herbon , a city of Giudea, where the Virgin went to visit her cousin Elisabetta. A third hypothesis says that the name comes from the colour of the Virgin's face. The profane insertions such as the navalis wagon and its violent destruction, along with the intimacy and the religious solemnity, suggest this festival shares roots with ancient traditions of other Mediterranean countries. For example, in Greek culture, wedding parties also celebrate with

4582-438: The new engine, but also noted because the game began development on the previous version of the engine it doesn't fully represent the capabilities of the new iteration. Capcom further commented that MT Framework 2.0 is able to hide the specifics of the hardware and the supported shader models from programmers, enabling them to write more platform-agnostic code than before, and reducing their burden. In Capcom's 2011 annual report, it

4661-506: The old Lombard jurisdiction of the gastald of Acerenza in the Principality of Salerno , the town gained regional prominence. In the spring of 867, it was burnt by the imperial troops of Louis II as the first key target in the emirate's conquest ; the Chronicle of St Benedict of Monte Cassino calls it a particularly well-defended site. The Franks soon fell out with the Lombards and

4740-443: The people of that era lived. The Palazzo dell'Annunziata is a historical building on the main square, seat of Provincial Library. On 17 October 2014, Matera was declared European Capital of Culture for 2019, together with Bulgaria 's second-largest city, Plovdiv . The cuisine of Matera is a typical "cucina povera" ( peasant food ) from Southern Italy. It features a sort of blend of Basilicata and Apulia 's cuisines being in

4819-567: The regeneration of the Sassi as a picturesque tourist attraction with the aid of the Italian government, UNESCO, and Hollywood. In 2008, the city began the candidacy process for a European Capital of Culture in 2019; it was designated one of the European Capitals of Culture for 2019 on 17 October 2014. Today there are many thriving businesses, pubs and hotels there, and the city is amongst the fastest growing in southern Italy. Matera preserves

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4898-467: The region. After the prominent Apulian rebels enlisted the support of the Normans and defeated the new katepano of Italy at Cannae in 1041, Matera fell within the scope of Norman incursions and struck a deal with the invaders. In retaliation for this, the next katepano Georgios Maniakes , dispatched to Italy with special powers in April 1042, carried out mass executions in Matera in June, only to launch

4977-536: The release of Lost Planet 2 in 2010. According to Capcom, several parts of the engine were re-written from scratch and as a result it performs better on the PlayStation 3 hardware, compared to the previous version of the engine which was first built with the Xbox 360 in mind. Capcom highlighted the interactivity between characters and vegetation in Lost Planet 2 as one of the significant improvements made possible with

5056-583: The rocky ravine created by a river that is now a small stream, and this ravine is known locally as "la Gravina". In the 1950s, as part of a policy to clear the extreme poverty of the Sassi, the government of Italy used force to relocate most of the population of the Sassi to new public housing in the developing modern city. Until the late 1980s the Sassi was still considered an area of poverty, since its dwellings were, and in most cases still are, uninhabitable and dangerous. The present local administration, however, has become more tourism-orientated, and it has promoted

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5214-486: The sassi. However, the construction remained unfinished after his assassination in the popular riot of 29 December 1514. It has three large towers, while twelve were probably included in the original design. During some restoration work in the main square of the town, workers came across what were believed to be the main footings of another castle tower. However, on further excavation large Roman cisterns were unearthed. Whole house structures were discovered where one can see how

5293-454: The settlement districts scaling down and burrowing into the sheer rock faces as the Sassi. Of the two streambeds, called the grabiglioni  [ it ] , the northern hosts Sasso Barisano (facing Bari ) and the southern Sasso Caveoso (facing Montescaglioso ). The Sassi consist of around twelve levels spanning the height of 380 m, connected by a network of paths, stairways, and courtyards ( vicinati ). The medieval city clinging on to

5372-506: The shape of houses submerged in the earth. The Murgia National Park (Parco della Murgia Materana), a regional park established in 1990, includes the territory of the Gravina di Matera and about 150 rock churches scattered along the slopes of the ravines and the plateau of the Murgia. This area, inhabited since prehistoric times, still preserves stationing dating back to the Paleolithic, such as

5451-534: The visuals, thus making them look largely the same as when running under DirectX 9 . However, Resident Evil 5 under DirectX 10, was the first video game to be presented fully in stereoscopic 3D , including all of its cutscenes , and the first to be rated as "3D Vision Ready" by Nvidia. Later re-releases of the two games on PC removed DirectX 10 support. A major update to the engine called MT Framework 2.0 began development in January 2008 and made its debut with

5530-426: Was added to the engine, and under DirectX 10 improved soft shadow rendering, and by the use of vertex shaders , less artifact-prone motion blur, fur shading and improved depth of field with a bokeh -like appearance. The two games on PC that followed Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - Devil May Cry 4 and Resident Evil 5 - also featured DirectX 10 support, but Capcom decided against using it to improve upon

5609-505: Was announced and revealed to be running on a new proprietary engine by Capcom named RE Engine . RE Engine was said that it, too, will power multiple upcoming Capcom games. However Capcom chose MT Framework to build 2018's Monster Hunter: World , despite the game targeting PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and modern PCs, as they felt the existence of custom toolsets built into the engine from previous Monster Hunter titles, would benefit its development. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One releases of

5688-463: Was built such that it is hidden, but made it difficult to provide a water supply to its inhabitants. Early dwellers invested tremendous energy in building cisterns and systems of water channels. The largest cistern has been found under Piazza Vittorio Veneto, the Palombaro Lungo which was built in 1832. With its solid pillars carved from the rock and a vault height of more than fifteen metres, it

5767-525: Was built to use PC development tools and initially target the Xbox 360 system because of its similarity to the PC platform. In 2004 the project had started by just one programmer but in the following years and as they added support for more platforms more people joined in. Because of its PC development tools, video games can be programmed first on the PC, and then adjusted to run on console hardware. MT framework supports multithreading techniques to take advantage of

5846-467: Was confirmed that 80% of MT Framework's development process is common between the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC platforms, something which reduced development costs. Lastly, Capcom made possible for the first time for external contract studios that would partner with them, to use the engine. The first externally developed game to use MT Framework 2 was Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds . The PC version of Lost Planet 2 released some months after

5925-573: Was consecrated in May 1082. After a short communal phase and a series of pestilences and earthquakes, the city became an Aragonese possession in the 15th century, and was given in fief to the barons of the Tramontano family . In 1514, however, the population rebelled against the oppression and killed Count Giovanni Carlo Tramontano . In the 17th century Matera was handed over to the Orsini and then became part of

6004-528: Was detailed that Capcom plans to move to the new engine starting with Deep Down but will continue the use of MT Framework for games developed for the seventh generation of consoles as well as MT Framework Mobile for handhelds and smartphones. He stated that "creators will have to start back at square one when they learn how [to] develop games using Panta Rhei" but the overall efficiency of development would increase more than it would if they had merely updated MT Framework. In June 2016, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

6083-621: Was founded by the Roman Lucius Caecilius Metellus in 251 BC who called it Matheola . In AD 664 Matera was conquered by the Lombards and became part of the Duchy of Benevento . In the 7th and 8th centuries the nearby grottos were colonised by both Benedictine and Basilian monastic institutions. After the Arab conquest of Bari in 840, Matera came under Islamic rule . Emancipated from

6162-473: Was reported that Capcom was bringing MT Framework to Wii to reduce the development time and costs of developing Wii games. Sengoku BASARA 3 was confirmed as the first game running on MT Framework Lite, a special version of the engine targeting the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3 hardware. At E3 2010, Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition and Resident Evil: Revelations were announced as upcoming games for

6241-406: Was the first MT Framework Mobile game to be released on the hardware. MT Framework Mobile's support for iOS was later also announced, and the first game to use the engine on the iPhone was the port of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies , released in 2014. In a 2014 interview with Masaru Ijuin, an engineer behind MT Framework and the upcoming proprietary Capcom engine Panta Rhei , it

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