Underwater scene

Hi,
I floated my room and took some photos while swimming around. Hope you like it. Its all about atmospheric and harmony rather then just a "my first model" thread or somethings else.

youtube video (Sorry, its really bad quality)
Screens:



You can find more screenshots (including some older ones) here.

The plants are from loopix, the rocks and the submarine are from terminal26.de and the music in the video is from incompetech.com.

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That's very cool - I like it. You should post it to the gallery.

That´s totally awesome!!
I like it^^.
It´s 100 times better than the Engine Demos.

wow, this totally kicks ass. and if a sentence like this comes from me, you know, i mean it this way. great shader and particle work. caustics, water surface, depth blur, shadowing/shading, light ray and surface effects are top notch. your video is really breathtaking, only thing i'd improve is the fish animation. other than that, your scene looks even better thn 98% of the made-with-maya/made-with-3ds-max under water scenes available on youtube. congrats!

ps: 17-35 fps... what's the worst framerate eater, which shader?

Absof**kinglutely amazing. I am now afk. Cleaning all the water puddles from my desk and keyboard. Guess my monitor wasn't a hundred percent leakproof. Forget about warehouse and venice. You're da man.

yesyes, this looks really great. you simply cant judge by the screenshots, but the video shows much better whats going on there. the volumetric effects are comming along very nice!

how did you get the seaweed(or whatever) to move like that.
Bones?

I think thats a shader too, hmmm...isn´t it the ATI Grass-sweaing shader??

Thanks for the kind words.
Yes the grass is animated with a vertex shader.

One frame consists of:

• 9-20ms: shadowmap rendering (though you don't really need to render this every frame, you can easily do this in 6ms on average)
  
• 7-16ms: depthmap rendering
  
• 2ms: rendering 1000 bubbles
  
• 0.1ms: final composing (bloom, blur, volumetric shadow)
  
• the rest is used for calculations and a6 rendering

The bottleneck in this scene is my submarine (the one with the big sphere), it has 10k polys, so when it get renders three time (shadow, depthmap, normal rendering) this is a remarkable slowdown.

The video just looks amazing, especially the light/shadows and DoF really look great. I think there could be a little bit more vegetation, but it looks great, anyway!

Regards
TSGames

that looks gorram shiny!

Loved the vid and the sounds too, awesome work here.
Was very enthralling seeing the atmosphere of being underwater in GStudio.

Excellent, all the shaders fit the scene and even though it is somewhat empty at the bottom it looks really really polished. Well done!

I'd love to try this on my PC just to see what kind of fps I would get and I'd like to know how much fps the submarine eats away.

A lot of requests haha, but this looks awesome.

Remarkable indeed I love the sun (or moon) shining through the surface. Very well done!

Agreed That is amazing

And the bubbles look very convincing IMHO also

Nice work!

Thanks,
Adoado

Looks great!

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Great water world.

For the submarine, using a low poly one with clever polygons you should achive same result , and win lot lot of frames.

very nice. the volumetric effects are particularly nice, and everything else is also put together beautifully.

julz

Wow! That looks REALLY impressive.
Keep up the good work.

The video looks very nice. Good job!

This is amazing, I really want to do distance blur now. Makes my games look lower than the worst you can think of...

When comparing this to real time underwater scenes, the resemblance is great thus regarding the plausible aspect of it, you did one heck of a nice job Chris

Cheers

Frazzle

i have been trying to do an underwater scene and i failed miserably, how in the world did you accomplish it?????? i am in awe! seriously...how did you do it?

Not very realistic, you're missing the polution (car tires, plastic bottles, etc). :-) j/k
Great Job