1 or 2 free wishes

As I haven´t contributed something for quite some time now and people tending to forget about my existence and mostly me beeing bored at the moment and not having done anything with Gamestudio for about a year or probably even longer, I offer to create one or two things you would like to have.
It can be anything code related, like some awesome script, the shader you always needed but never got or some legendary plugin.

Just post what you would like to see and I decide for what I´d like to do the most.

And before you miss it:

Port Lite Foundations next release to Lite-C so I don't have the hassle with Windows.

Let's see... two wishes:
- Port acknex to Mac and Linux
- Automated Locomotion system for LiteC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ZEvxwq_F8

FIRST:
Some great illuminations shader, like this one:
Quake 2 Real-time Global Illumination
Gamestudio really misses good dynamic shadows with flashlights (which could work with static and dynamic lights, blocks and models as well).
SECOND:
And good pathfinding with good obstacle avoidance and graphmaker (to increase it's speed). Gamestudio really misses great pathfinding...

Deferred Lightning Engine for GS.

(Mostly I need a flashlight + and some more "normal" dynamic lights + combined with the lightmap of the level ;))

1.) a better Network Sytem, wich allows downloads without ftp

2.) same as 3run.. a better pathfinding system ._.

I actually thought about something smaller than whole middleware solutions professional studios pay thousands of euros for...
I may still give something of this a try, but for now, I would prefer to get some more ideas

Metaballs!

lol guys!!! a bit easier, Slin is not Superman .

lmao you guys are horrible asking him for such hard stuff, my request, one of the following:

-object based motion blur that can work with shadeC
-i second germanunkols request for locomotion system, i had some results with this so i dont think its TOOOO hard? lol
- or just good IK

ps. quality must surpass crysis 4 or we wont accept it

Just one wish, wants to have infinitely many wishes, ok a joke

Can you convert the Geometric Post-process Anti-Aliasing (GPAA) to DX9?

An ingame particle editor with load and save possibilities.

If and only if object based motion blur, then please standalone and not tied to Shade-C!

I would like see really nice grass. LOTS of grass.

grass ? i dont get that, why should he make grass ? lol a grass animation shader ? gpu grass ? =lost=

lol well my request was for it to work for shadec he did say make wishes right

Hey Metaballs aren't hard, not harder than object based blur motion :L. you can find the algorithm everywhere. It's just the way of implementation that you need to think about.

Or an XMPP plugin! I mean that stuff is all pre-chewed if you know C/C++.

soooo many of the things on here have already been done.... I'm still looking for a good point light solution. I have hopes for shade-c but its still taking a while, and supposedly its going to cost.

I would like to have anything like Lightfrog in A8 D:

Doesn´t make much sense under DX9 since the technique requires per-edge info.
Saving them in the vertex buffers is quite inefficient.
The alternative is to extranct them at runtime which requires a geo shader and therefore DX10.

Better idea would be to implement FXAA and since it´s a pp only effect and Slin has already experience with this technique it shouldnt be a problem for him at all.

Im also for Locomotion system for LiteC, nothing else

A shader that turns everything you choose to be transparent while the player is behind it in the player raidius.

A smart enemy: Can defend himself, by dodging away from you're attacks, both melee and ranged attacks with tutorial.
Actually Random already did this but has alot of bugs. Altought i already played it about 25 times and only managed to beat the guy once x)

or something like this x)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk6vc6FIo6Y&feature=related

Tutorials (video) like unity has or better.
Gamestudio lacks alot of tutorials. On the other hand has alot of real example scripts.

Definitely an object based motion blur shader.
It is also maybe the only last missing standard shader which can not be achieved well through non-shader workarounds.

There is also a shader which slowly dissolves objects.
Like in 1:36 in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4c1d0nRzWY
Would also be neat

Dark@: damn dude... Superman doesn't exist?
May be I'm asking too much but would be great if you could do only one wish, and that wish is good and fast pathfinding

Looks easy. Alpha mask thresholding and edge highlighting. But I guess it is not easy because nothing is easy but hell, it looks great!

I second the wish for object based motion blur.
Deferred lighting would be nice too, though.

deferred lighting would be nice, but that's too much work. What about modifying some of the default materials to work with a Spotlight? I also like the pathfinding idea.

Pathfindig is a great idea

And good pathfinding is usually a extremely expensive middleware solution. So better forget it right away and think of something more realistic.

I want TUSC..

Nevertheless working, well-engineered, basic pathfinding. With examples how to add make movement functionality, move to target etc.
Like Intense Pathfinding 3, just without bugs and maybe some more features.

Something like Perfect AI from AUM 31 (which can save all connections between nodes into ".txt" file to increase speed).
Plus example, to make AI walk around randomly, move to target, and move away from target. I think this will be easy for such expert.

.. and very useful and maybe also essential for the community. More than shaders

Ok I understand the problem, we need to wait for implementations of DX10 or DX11, but also happy to see the FXAA sourcecode.

Another wish by the way is that effect (click image to see the effect):

There are a lot of shaders, but there is no single pathfinding which could work fast and wouldn't eat too much resources.

Nevertheless, Slin is very good at shaders.
I think it would be a pity to make him do something that can be achieved by a wider range of people.
The number of our shader gurus here is not very high and it seems that Slin is at his best at shaders. Use him

I would be happy with nice shaders (flashlight !)

Everyone asks for stuff which he misses in him current project
But me and Rondidon are asking for something that everyone misses

On the topic of object based motion blur: Check out the overgrowth method. This method seems kinda slow, but then again I'm not sure how fast other methods would be, and I like the result.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EjvtQdTHB0&feature=player_embedded#at=82

As quite a few shader wishes came up and and me knowing that there is someone else working on some animation and pathfinding stuff in a much higher quality than I could motivate me for, I decided to get started with some shader stuff.

And because I don´t like Shade-C and because I also don´t like the templates, I started this by advancing my PP_Helper.c to a more consistent, bigger library to be used as a basis for hopefully many new shaders.
This library allows you to set shader defines from within Lite-C and handles precompiling of shaders with and without defines, automatically loading the shaders correct permutation depending on the defines.

This is still at a very early state, but will hopefully grow in the future.
For now the only shader included is the third edition of FXAA, for whichI am actually setting several defines from Lite-C, but for now independant of any user input.
The effect is set to the highest quality, which provides very good results at a great performance on up to date hardware.

Here is some basic comparison screenshot:


You can download my framework with already precompiled shaders, doxygen comments and basic usage example for the fxaa here.

I get a black screen when FXAA is active on my HD3650

Try to uncomment the
#define SDSF_IGNORE_COMPILED

If that does not help, I wonder if it is related to the "missing" vertex shader which maybe does not use shadermodel 3.0, but I guess that we would have had more problems in the past with AMD cards then.
Is your directx up to date and your graphics driver?

In pp_fxaa3.c you can also try to comment out line 45 to 47 to see if you still don´t see anything then. If you don´t, open pp_fxaa3_luma.fx and set the shadermodel to 2.0 and see if you see something then.

@Germanunkol:
For overgrowth they simply render the object multible times and make the different instances partly translucent using jittered 1bit alpha masks.
This can become costly depending on the objects complexity but could be relativ easily implemented.
Worth a try imo.

Yes, I have latest DirectX and AMD drivers. I've tried all the solutions but none of them worked, still a black screen. If it helps, I get also a black screen when I run Wavefield Demo from Hummel

+

So even after this it was black? o.O
Did you ever successfully use any postprocessing effect? -.-

Combining all of them works at the beginning but I don't appreciate the antialiasing, and when I press f the engine freezes. I've used successfully all default GS post-processing shaders and also your PP effects from Shaders! V2, so all of what I've tried except Wavefield demo and this one.

painkiller: What happends with the above steps, but with keeping the shader model at 3.0?

Today I fixed a couple of bugs in my shader framework and made it reuse already loaded shaders.
I also started writing a general shader for most basic stuff like shading, outline, normalmapping, per vertex shading, ... The very first version however just features some basic dissolve effect and gpu bone animation .

You can download the latest stuff here.

So is this the first wish? What will be the next one?

Hell yeah, thank you!

@Slin, if I do that the screen is black from the beginning and it keeps like frozen: pressing f or esc hasn't any effect and I have to close it manually clicking on the X

I am on vacation starting now, nevertheless thanks for the fxaa source code and basic dissolve effect.
For now, all the shader worked very well on my pc (CPU Intel, GPU Nvidia).
When I come back, I will check more carefully next time.

Thanks again Slin

update: I've updated my graphics card to an HD 6870 and still get the black screen

i have a request!

A new sword trail effect! Perhaps a shader, and not he code that is provided on on acknex resources... It wouldnt work for me

Regards XD

I update this post to say that some days ago there was an update of AMD drivers and FXAA works for me now, just in case someone had the same problem

I just played around with the dissolve shader.
It seems the dissolving object is not being rendered
if there is a visible skycube.
Does anyone know how to fix this?