youtube portfolio

For those who are interested:
I´m currently working on putting a lightweight portfolio together on youtube.
I plan to upload a new video every week, basically shader related stuff.
Happiness and kindness awaiting you on my new channel.

Hummel

Very, very impressive! I'm subscribing. I've seen the first two before, and loved them. But this winter terrain shader is gorgeous!

Wow! This is a beautiful. I'm subscribing to. Wavefield i've seen before but is always pleased to see it again.
Great work!

Wow, this is very impressive.
Especially the winter terrain looks great.
And I like the way the individual shaders work together in the wavefield demo.

If there was a demo reel to show the best of what you can create for this concept. You couldn't ask for anything more!

Great work!

I vote we all save as much money as we can to pay Hummel, boh_havoc, slin, and jibb to work non-stop in the same location on an intuitive shader library for acknex.im talking everything from hdr, dynamic shadowmapping, ssao,multitex, all with detail normal map capability. seriously guys, if i had it i'd give you a bajillion dollars.

btw. i detect some simulated sss in there do i?

The winter shader is breathtaking, well done!


Having them work in the same location would cost us a lot of money, they'd do just fine collaborating over the internet.

But IMHO Conitec is the one who should be investing in these guys. It's too bad only the community has the will to actually push the development of Gamestudio forward in a serious fashion.

That's a very flattering mention! Especially considering who else is on the list Thanks, John!

I think Hummel's Winter terrain shader is a great example of artistic shader programming. Each layer is blended and rendered differently, showing artistic discretion in the development of a shader for a specific purpose. This is why, to me, shader programming is the perfect marriage of artistry and coding and, in the right hands, an engine with a great shader programming environment (such as A8, IMO) has the advantage over an engine with a great selection of built-in shaders but a more difficult shader programming environment (some other engines).

Once again, Hummel, great work! And correct me if you actually just wrote an uber generic terrain shader that somehow managed to produce your winter terrain by simply changing a few parameters and textures.

lol np. someone just posted a few weeks back about how technical artists are becoming the new big thing in the industry shaders are one good example. some others are procedural creation in general (shaders are often part of that) and programming the art of something, to me that is creating smaller systems like some of the projects ive seen that make walking more natural with body movements change depending on where the foot lands. Its really is becoming more and more of a demand as we get more and more tech in our hands again, great job hummel.

Wow, thanks for the kind words guys!

Don´t know how to express how much I agree with you.

No, I didn´t.^^

Probably, but I had to look in the shader to get sure. It´s been a while since I wrote this one.

Since I´m currently working on my 2d engine+tools, the videos will certainly present older shader work of mine for the next time.

New video: Velvet Bunny

Very good
Hummel can you also make a realtime reflection car shader with texture would be very cool
Greetings Progger

The 'plushy' effect would do a good job in old dusty rooms of an abandoned hotel in a horror game. Don't know, how fast the shader is to fill a whole room with it, though.

I appreciate your work but I don't get what's special about the bunny shader, what am I overlooking?

Look into the video description.

@Superku:

I thought I made it quite clear...the presentation even starts with a simple diffuse shading (right one in the pic) to show the difference.
But perhaps it simply looked so natural to you that you haven´t recognized it´s awesomeness

@Progger: I could of course, but neither do I feel motivated nor do I have time. =\

viewing it in crosseye makes the velvet effect pretty awesome

Yep, especially when using the Minneart term. That´s why I added the cross-eye scene.

Yes, now I can see the effect clearly, looks cool. I was pretty drunk tonight, sorry.

This time it´s Mr. Ehec´s big moment: Bacterium
I guess the most of you already know Mr. Ehec. For those who do not, take a look at that thread.

Finally a LightFrog vid: Klick.

Did you work on LightFrog again or did you "just" arrange the scenes?

Also, the video is quite dark in general [a bit too dark I think]

No new scenes at all, just content which has been shown already.

Ah, okay, I haven't seen the last one before
[I really hoped you would have started working on it again ]

I would rather start from scratch.

Then you should do it.

[No, really, after I once tested Unity I am always shocked by Gamestudios abilities to handle lights and shadows and so on, that's why I really liked LightFrog, but I believe you wouldn't make that much money with it ]

But you stay'n here and that has its reasons

Hummel, veröffentlichst du deine Entwicklungen eigentlich irgendwo? Ich kann nirgendwo etwas finden würde aber so gerne den ein oder anderen Shader benutzen.

Wenn du ein Package rausbringst gibts bestimmt einige (mich eingeschlossen) die dafür was springen lassen würden

Welchen vermisst du denn?

Schau mal im Wiki unter "User Projects". Da habe die Sachen hinzugefügt. Wavefield z.B. kannst du da herunterladen.

Die Eislandschaft würde ich gern mal testen.

@Rondidon: Thx for the hint!

Da du hast winter demo.
Use Ctrl to move faster.

Mein Weihnachtsgeschnenk Danke!

Also außer der Skybox ist da bei mir nichts zu sehen...

Let me guess, AMD graphics? -.-
EDIT: Well, just took a look in the shaders and recognized those are still using different shader models for pixel and vertex shader. I´ll update the download link with a new version as soon as the upload is ready.

That is correct...

Updated link.

This weeks video shows one of my lesser-known shaders: Layered Terrain + Bloom

Something new.

(Klick to enlarge, cross-eye doesn´t work well with the preview)

New and fresh: Mini-Reef

THIS is art!

Yes, this is awesome! What I really like are the water reflections (no kidding) and that you can see the geometry beneath the water surface. I am wondering: are you using a stationary mesh for the water or is it a displaced mesh to make the ocean infinite?

It would be quiet interesting to see how it would look like, if you add waves (mesh deformation!), shadow mapping, faked caustics and shores.

Thanks guys. It´s really just a rather simple effect. The Wavefield water was way more complex (geometric waves, infinite water + LOD, shores, 'under-water-support'). The under water terrain shader is actually using the same fake caustics like implemented in Wavefield but it´s probably barely visible through the water refractions if you don't know. Also it's true that the diffractions aren't perfect at all, but I didn't spend any extra time in improving those when I re-implemented the water (it's not a new shader).

Just recognised that I forgot to mention (in the video description) that the shader uses cubic env-reflections for the skycube reflection which looks way better than the simple bumpmap-distorted reflections from the reflect-view-rendertarget. Thx.^^

Is it possible for you to compile an executable or something?

yeah, that water is really cool,
and that terrain thing is also very interesting, it's like a vulcanic asteroid or something...

Mini-Reef Demo: http://www.wikiupload.com/Y550GS7UUWN4K26

No source code included, it's simply too hacky.^^
But you can ask if you wanna learn more about general concepts or details of certain parts of the implementation.