The reason i love the new stages feature

Tried to combine the dof and hdr effect. Didn't took to long as i already had that planned, here's the result:



Both DoF and HDR are using 3 blurrpasses now instead of only 2. The scene gets blurred by a boxblur first (1 pass) and then by a gaussian blur (2 passes). This results in a much smoother look. The impact on framerate isn't that high as i'm using correctly downsampled images now.
All in all this scene runs at ~290 fps with a resolution of 1024x768.

Again, i'm sorry if the colors/gamma/saturation doesn't look good on the picture. I'm still working on that ****** tft. And that won't change till the second week of january. So bare with me

Quite impressive features

Cheers

Frazzle

What are your computers specs?

AMD Athlon X2 4200+
Geforce 7800GT
2GB RAM
Win XP Prof Sp2

HDR has nearly no effect on the framerate (i get ~550 fps). DoF comes along at ~360 fps. I think i have to do some optimizing lateron to boost performance when combining both.

btw: I think i got volumetric light/sunbeams to work. However it will only work for the sun/outdoor levels. I will post some screens soon.

cheers

wow, nice framerate then

"simulating the human eye getting used to overbright areas" - and vice versa!
Can't wait for that!
When you achieved that, I would like to see the HDR within a picture with a high range of different brightness, if you don't mind.

Some new stuff:

Real time Ambience Occlusion. Still very wip, but hey, after 4 hours of work this is kinda nice




It's done by using a depthmap and lots of shadercode. Sooo...if you want to include this in your scene, just include the shader stuff and you're set. You don't have to create special maps for your models or anything else for this to work

Well, hope you like it

[edit] hums along at ~180-200 fps. Nothing has been optimized so far so i'm really looking forward for the final thing...this could actually turn out usefull

like you said its still WIP, but it looks very impressive

Cheers

Poison

This is a fantastic start!

Wow thats a great start
I so hope you'll make this a user contribution

The title says it all
Great work BoH_Havoc !!

Cheers

Frazzle

cool! i wonder how you prevent the depth bleeding and how dou you get that noizy look?

small update:
ao is much finer now and more edges are being detected. I'm still not satisfied though, there has to be a better way.

no textures


with textures


textures, no ao



As for contibuting this shader: Well yes i will. However you will have to buy it for 10-15€ (15€ max, i'm still thinking about this). You will get a pack with bloom,hdr,dof,volumetric particles, volumetric sunlight,ao and other stuff. Its made for beginners so all you have to do is include a file and call a function to set up your effects, thats all. e.g. s_dof(1,vector(100,50,200)) will enable dof with a near plane of 100 quants, a focal length of 50 quants and a far plane of 200 quants.
However this still needs work, i might get it finish till the end of february, we'll see

ello: the ao shader uses 1 texture. It's rgb channel contains the level shaded without textures and has vecViewPos as lightsource. It's alpha channel contains the depth. Now in the shader i do some edge detecting for the rgb and alpha channel. Finally i substract the alphachan-edges from the rgbchan-edges. That's basically it. The rest is done by a gaussian blur. Oh and for the noise: i simply created a noise texture, passed it to the shader and multiplicated it with the final result. All in all the shader is very simple (and i guess that's the main reason the result doesn't look thaaat pretty ).
As for the content of the rgb channel: i know this is not the way to go. There really has to be a better way to get the positions of all hard edges of the scene. Maybe flat shading could do the trick, but belive it or not, i have no idea on how to archive flat shading without unbreaking the model. If you have any ideas, just pass them along and win a free copy of the shaderpack

Well then, thank you all for the nice words, i appreciate it

are you using A7? when lite-C can be compiled into dll's it should be a lot easier to sell code while minimizing the chances of it getting ripped open and spread all over the place.

your scene looks nicer without the AO what does it look like without the noise?

julz

Without the noise




I didn't realize ello is also working on a ssao shader. Check it out, it's totally awesome! http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/813255/an/0/page/0#Post813255

If it's well documented with demo's and screenshots, I'd definately buy the pack.

any news? :]

Still working on it

Volumetric Particles need some more work, too.
HDR,Bloom,DoF and volumetric sunlight is finished.
I think i need another 2 weeks for getting everything to work the way i want and write a manual+demo. There are also 2-3 other effects i would like to try out. If they work out i will post some pics.

I'll let you know when i finished it all

your ambient occlusion looks more like a mold infestation. i like your shader work though. especially the depth of field effect.

I'd definitely buy this pack. I'm looking for a DOF effect that works alongside Bloom or HDR. I also hope it takes into account different resolutions, camera arcs, and is really adjustable in the blur, and what distance the blur occurs and the such. It'd be nice if there were also a simpler DOF/Haze effect where it just blurs the screens background as a whole. Kind of like a heat haze(blurrier the further away from camera). Screenshots look great though.

I was thinking of something more like in the desert where the distance becomes a haze. Here is some examples:

http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/driving...ag=images;img;1

Nintendo uses this in most of their games. Take a look at the distance in the screenshots, it's slightly blurred. Basically the farther away from the camera, the more blurry the world becomes. I don't think it's DOF as everything near the camera, no matter where, stays clear(no focal point ect.). And I don't think the blur depends on the objects origin compared to the camera either, as the ground becomes blurred in the distance too.

Oh i see. Well i think that should be easy to create. I'll give it a go.

In other news i decided to make the pack available for free. I don't know if i could get the buyers much customer support if something isn't working, as i'm working on 2 other projects (both are big ones, one is commercial). So as i may not have the time to solve your problems with this pack, its for free. As it will be "open source" i hope people will help each other.
I also kinda want to thank Conitec with this. If this pack works out the way i planned it, Conitec could add HDR,Bloom,DoF,volumetric particles and ambience occlusion support to the A7 feature page. Well, thanks Conitec for this nice piece of software of yours. It may have flaws, but then again i don't know a software that is perfect

Enjoy and stay tuned!

I needed a break from the ssao shader. So i had a look at nvidia's shader site, played around a bit and then came up with a quite nice looking skin shader (well, at least i think it looks kinda nice ^^):

high poly:


low poly:



I already stated this in another thread:
If i can't get the ssao shader done in the next weeks, i will at least release the rest of the shaderpack for you to play around with.

Yeah, that does look really nice. Looking forward to what you release.

Artificial SSS?

Great found, fits perfect

Cheers

Frazzle

AWESOME!!

Looks much better now!

Cheers

Poison

Alright, i gave up on ssao for the moment and started including all shaders in one file and make them work together.
DoF is running flawlessly and i implemented a smooth autofocus instead of an instant one (had lots of fun playing with it and looking at stuff!). HDR works, too, except the automatic brightness. I also converted some more object shaders to 3dgs.

Some screenies:

Final Skinshader:


Velvety:


Carpaint:


Custom Metal Shader made of velvty and skin shader (the backgroundmodel also uses this):






If everything goes the way i want, i will release the shaderpack this week.

Wow these look great. I am not sure if you tested, but would these shaders work in a level with block geometry?

It's a freaky sight but yet very interesting to see the composed effects you applied on the flighing head

Cheers

Frazzle

awesome.