Something Tasty...

[iWasAdam]

yep - it's something that has been bothering me too. Lets just say that It's now in my view and I'm looking closely at the code...

ok, here's the first go with the jaggies:


and now the modified version with temporal blur applied (plus the post so it is using the same sort of setting as the first one):


It's not perfect, but I think it looks a whole lot better now
Plus it has a sort of occlusion effect that adds some very subtle shadows where objects meet - You can't quite see it here, but it is present

[Derron]

Think what you mean is "contact shadows".

Bye
Ron

[iWasAdam]

possibly - it becomes difficult to find the correct terms when you are making it up as you go along...

latest pic:


This is much more interesting as the cube is white and the base is grey.
But wait - that's not a white box? Yep - it's taking the base environment colors from the supplied background and using them with the lighting to give a variant of global illumination. When you spin the cube around, the lighting does change on the surfaces - this is the first step in activating the pbr

There's (almost) a photographic thing going on - completely unintentional...

[iWasAdam]

That was a nice trip...

[iWasAdam]

And something went wrong with the metal parameter... Guess who's keeping it in

[Qube]

And something went wrong with the metal parameter... Guess who's keeping it in

Yeah, something went wrong there but in a very cool way. I'd definitely keep that error as an alternate feature

[iWasAdam]

Thanks Qube - definitely being kept in

OK and now for the great reveal... 


This is the full Editor now with loading and saving. There is a single bitmap (the same one being used throughout this thread which is 256x256 pixels) and just a single material - the pbr is per material, and there can be many if wanted/needed.

The actual end result is made from 6 separate meshes:
- the angled back piece with the light vertical
- the brown upright buttress
- the green crate
- 2 red railings
- the floor
these are all combined into a single mesh preserving all settings/color/material allocation, etc. and the result being shown with post effects and shadows in OpenGL

This ends the proof of concept, base code and developments 

And here's the full editor with the software render window being used and the same file reloaded:


It shows the new PBR tab, the single bitmap plus the sorting errors the software renderer suffers from

[Derron]

SHAME ON YOU !!!11eleven!
No real railings but faked ones -> billboards.

This is no 50s SciFi-Flick, this is gonna be the next xCom meets Trading Game meeting Faster Than Light!


Hope you now start coding on your planet game again. 'Nough of excoursion into "building my own 3d toolset) :-)


bye
Ron

[Xerra]

Yep, time to get back to the original game you were doing, Adam. Progress was looking great on that until you, erm, branched out

[iWasAdam]

Branched out! 
I wanted to create the entire universe... and the ships and the interiors... 


single loaded object instanced 6 times, no post, no pbr. Very little cpu hit, static 60fps!!!! YAY!!!!!

with post on and default settings:


fullscreen 1920x1200 static 60fps - looks lush!

Hmmm. maybe extend the center part, put generator/engine/tanks in the middle...?

[Qube]

Looking great, nice work indeed

[iWasAdam]

minor adjustments being made. added ability to set color per model when drawn:

plus lots of minor things being tidied up and editor improvements. Also sorta looking into how best to deal with collisions and entity movement with a map - interesting stuff...

[iWasAdam]

playing around. thought I'd go for a dirty tiled subway look:

[iWasAdam]

Here's a 123 showing how a model is constructed and looks in wire, flat shade, etc with the final opengl

[peteswansen]

you must be a board wargamer as well as smart programmer!!