Looks pretty cool, my fps level was 20 at start and 13 after a while. How did you LOD the terrain btw? Simply deform it or something?

Cheers

The terrain has no LOD, its just deformed vertex by vertex (read out of a text file)
The Grassmodels and stones have a LOD assigned.

Maybe try using

fps_max = 64
fps_min = 40
time_smooth = 0.66


That would help a lot for slower framerates... just a suggestion is all...


Jason

I will try out the time smoothing,
but it also generates some lags in the movement then....


Here a shot with a human model.

Sieht echt gut aus!! Aber den Skin vom Human finde ich zumatschig... Sonst ok

cYa Angel

I think the shadows make the screens look as cool as they do. You've done really well there. This may or may not work for you, if you get z-buffer issues with trees and have to apply a material to stop it, you may want to separate the trunk from the leaves so that the trunk isn't using the material, this way you may have more control over it's lighting and shadows. Also you can set up bone or vertex animation of the leaves and animate them in script to get them to sway in the wind.

your character is really cool like your scene

Some light bloom could enhance your scene and bring some life to your scene.

That's too abd 3DGS don't have some optimized or trciky BLoom like BLitz3D or Ogre3D engines

I need to seperate the trees anyway from its leaves anyway, to have them
cast shadow. The shadow renderers sunbeams would otherwise create strange
flat polys on the ground, as the "leaves" are on a transparent polygon.

The tested bloomshader unfortunatly smoothes out the scene too much,
so it looks too blurry.

The guy is not really finished, it was originaly designed for a top-topn perspective.
(the face texture is actually from Mel Gibson )

How are you going to do the shadows of the leaves?
Using a sprite?

I have the very same problem, but haven't found a good solution - other than using a blob sprite for the whole tree - yet

This is a problem, shure.

I might just make a very simple sollution, and use a brush to paint them by hand,
if nothing else works.
The trunk is rendered correctly, And the leaves caste a much lighter shadow than the trunk.

Another thing would be to insert a dummy model onto the trunk during the shadowrendering, that
has leave-polys.

The shadow is not as hard edged as the stencil shadows, so the player will not
notice a big difference.