Plant Shadows

I just found out that I used wrong texcoords for the transparency check.
The shadows shape is much better now, but you also can see the pixels better...

This is absolutely amazing. Exciting. Awesome...
I don´t know how to describe my feelings about your work.

I´m very happy that you are a member of this community. Kudos!

yes, really good job.. i guess it is really just a matter of the resolution

can't you just blur it?

I blur it at the wrong position at the moment, but I´ll now try to change that which should give a bit better results than.

Amazing work Slin, you really became a shader expert in no time if you ask me
I admire and have great respect for the work and effort you put into this community !!

Cheers

Frazzle

Now that's cool With a little bluring and maybe a different algorithm for shadow darkening/transparency on darker spots (now they are almost black there), this will be super handy stuff.
Can you tell us what's the missing/buggy A7 features you need? How does it affect the framerate so far?

woohoo, go slin go !

Love to know more about it like, some terrain base shaders disable GStudio stencil shadows, does this get over that by generating player shadow or doesnt it matter now.

Okay, I made the change with the blur and it looks quite a bit better now (the Light is even a bit further away than on the previous pictures) and I also tried to use an other algorithm for the shadowthrowing which got very similar to the first one...^^:


Thank you frazzle but I still feel as an absolute shadernoob

@Loopix: There are just some problems with bmaps in C-Script which made me unable to include water. And I wasn´t able to translate the code to Lite-C without the shadows not working (matrices and Lite-C -_-)...
This uses one view for the light and a second view for the camera (I could get rid of it, but it would take me some freedom I don´t want to lose at the moment (easy combining with other shaders like normalmapping)). The shaders shouldn´t slow the rendering down too much, so just decide on your own how fast it is. This scene runs constant with 50-60fps.

I don´t really understand what you mean Nems-_-

Thanks for all your comments
Slin

now that's a beauty!

Thanks
It is actually flickering a lot which makes it look less good than on that screen...
I´ve got some ideas on how to get rid of them but they all come with some disadvantages-_-
But I´ll may be able to get it a bit better

And just to let you all know, this is done with C-Script and some shaders only.
I think about converting it to Lite-C (I had some trubbles the last time I tried it-_-), but it is possibly not worth the effort since jcl meant that he is going to post something soon, and because this is still some very basic shadowmapping and not really usuable for real projects.

Slin

I was asked to shape the light, so here you go:


My next step will be to add a second light source and than I´ll try to convert it to lite-c.

Why is the scene so über-bright? Could you try to make a natural light setting and a semi transparent shadow instead of such a pitchblack thingy? Good work so far!

Cheers, Christian.

Look at my picture before this one. That is how it looks with the latest beta, since I can´t use bmaps there-_- I had to use an older 3DGS version which seems to render espacially the terrain much more bright...

Whoops..