cn we have a demo? would like to walk throughj o.o

or at least a video?

Hi, not bad. But it is too bright. Reduce it a bit, and it's awesome. DX11, hell yeah !

The shadow(in the front) in the picture at the left of the forum looks a bit "pixelike" it would be cool if u could blur it like the shadow behind it. BUT the rest is just looking good and bright!!!
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@dark inferno
it has a sort of pre-cursor to LPV that I invented called SGI which basically lets you render any object as a non-shadow casting light. In terms of shadow mapping support I wrote a simple multi-pass rendering system. So: Unlimited dynamic non-shadow casting area/shape/point lights (you can pass in just a single vertex for a point light) and technically unlimited shadow casting lights but this becomes VERY slow.

In fact, performance is the main reason why I switched to dx10 and 11. I can literally render over a hundred shadow casting lights per frame and keep high-fps where in this dx9 version I can barely get away with maybe 8 :\ (note that a omnidirectional light might be 4-6 shadow maps).

This was basically testing the limits of A7. I would NOT recommend using this because it will only run well on higher end machines - instead I'd reduce it to a simpler, less powerful pipeline that will run better on most machines.

@3run
I might release it later but it is of limited use. If you want a nice pipeline in Gamestudio I would prefer to just make a simpler one for you. This one is not compatible with a large portion of the engine functionality (ie sky, many flags, etc) and you need proprietary function calls instead (which I never documented as this was just for proprietary use).
Oh and thanks - it's nice to be back =]

@alibaba
This is basically iridium on steroids. I never finished a client coder friendly version because I was unhappy with the performance. I looked into solutions and concluded that coding an API from scratch in dx11 would meet my performance requirements, and it has =]

@rackscha & Clemens

I already have a demo and videos made for when I was submitting this to ShaderX (GPU Pro3).

You need a relatively powerful GPU to run this well - my sli gtx280m's barely cut it - something like a gtx550ti or better would perform well (Wolfgang Engel reported that it ran smoothly on a gtx480m so I suppose that works well too).

I will probably upload the videos and demos to my site when I get a chance - although my more modern work is, in my opinion, much more interesting and advanced than this.

ok, so have you ever thought of writing a fast lighting system for gamestudio, i mean thats the only area that GS seems to be horrible in and by that i mean:

-block shaders [normalmap - spec - env]
-hdr , dof , and others

i think a system like that would actually be used by quite a couple people

I have an EXTREMELY long response to this that I decided no to post -send me an email or add me on im to discuss this in detail...

short(er) answer:

I CAN do this but it will NEVER perform nearly as well as it should on a modern API (dx11). I am willing to do this in my spare time if enough people really want me to. Finally, the lighting system I could create would limit the flexibility of the engine by its very nature. In other words you would lose the ability to apply shaders to objects without doing major work - the exception is post process shaders would obviously work fine as they do not interfere with the lighting pipeline.

-texcoord3-

Interesting work, esp. the first and the third screenshot look very good!
Some time ago you've made a job offer on this forum, I remember it because of the high requirements and the nice payment. You've said:

Is that what you are showcasing right now related? What has happened to the engine?

that was a mess - and in fact - I did not personally make that post (One of the people I was working with did with my permission).

Long story short - the "main" guy lied about everything and screwed me and a couple of nice artists out of money and time. SUCH a waste of time -_-

Also - I looked back at that post and it's ridiculous! XD
$250 an hour?! xD everything in that is crap. Also, he signed my name as "DR" I am NOT a doctor (yet at least) - if I were why would I still be in school? lol

oh yeah - also ignore any content from "Black Gadget Studios" as they do NOT represent me anymore at all.

My OFFICIAL contact (ONLY trust these):

mikea@umd.edu

texcoord3.wordpress.com

texcoord3 on this server and gamedev

Everything else was put up by the guy I worked with that scammed us. Exception is some old google site I made but that's just junk anyway.

Sorry for the inconvenience -Mike-