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#261

Quote:Tom, what size is the ground texture

The rock texture is 1024x1024. The grass texture is supposed to repeat more than you see in those images, so it's a little off at the moment.

#262 There are some more fixed in the next release that are helping that scene (dual paraboloid shadows working, fixed parallax on terrain) that you don't have access to in B4. That said... its all in the art and placement of lights... technology alone cannot make your game pretty.

#263

Quote:There are some more fixed in the next release that are helping that scene (dual paraboloid shadows working, fixed parallax on terrain) that you don't have access to in B4

Nice one :D

Quote:. That said... its all in the art and placement of lights... technology alone cannot make your game pretty.

Never a truer word said !


EDIT: thought there was a problem with thread limits.. seems ok now :)

#264 um, yeah, sexeh!

#265 Latest version of my Coastal Cliff scene, includes a night scene now. Still a few tweaks I can make, but nothing major at the moment.

#266 Very Cool Jacob! can't wait to see your next video! What do you plan on doing with the coast scene?

#267 @Jacob Dankovchik:

you gonna make a resource with those changes tot he water that you made? They look nice!

#268 @Jacob: Shouldn't there be specular highlights on the Ocean when the Sun rises?
Pretty cool overall, though.

#269 sunrise

#270 Actually the water shader does not do specularity. There were a few specularity "experiments" as commented in the TGEA water shaders but I never got it looking acceptable and removed them.

#271 @Jacob: Beautiful work man!

#272 I'm still not entirely sure what I'll do with my water shader, or the Coast map just yet. We'll see, in time.

#273 What decides the foam color? It should be the averaged color of the sun disk in the scatter sky. Then as it gets below the horizon I would thing that the night color should be used. or something. It looks really weird. Is the foam code still a WIP?

or better yet, since it is a post process effect screen it with the lighting pass.

#274 If you use 'lightinfoUncondition' you will get back a Color term, an approximation of the summed N dot L * Attenuation from all lights, and a specular term evaluated with specular power 8 (To get other specular powers, use identies of exponentiation). Those should give you most, if not all of the info you need to approximate most light effects, including Fresnel, since specular is computed as N dot H.

#275 @Pat: That's the kind of docs I'm after. :) Thanks.

#276 I just realized, I am full of it...the water is a translucent, it won't get drawn to the light info buffer. I think there may be plans to change this, though.

For non-translucent objects, though, what I said is true ;)

#277 Here is an interesting result I got while working on an SSAO shader...


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Reminds me of doing charcoal drawings of primitive shapes in Drawing 101

#278 Reminds me of debugging a raytracer ;)

#279 That is pretty cool =)

#280 I would totally play that game.