Hey Pietro,
Your scenes look really good! It looks really professional. Reminds me somehow to Assassins Creed

I have a question:
with which program and how do you bake the shadows?
because they look so awesome!

It's quite irrelevant what program you are using, but anyway I'm a 3dsmax user and those shadows (the ambient occlusion mostly) is rendered using the mental ray plugin.

ah cool, thanks. I will try the Demo

Hi Pietro! ( We are only italians in this forum ) There is an error in the lights... There are 2 sun with respective shadows...

WHITE CIRCLE = Sun 1 ( with it shadow )
YELLOW CIRCLE = Sun 2 ( with it shadow )
GREEN CIRCLE = evident errors of 2 direction lights



Bye bye!

Ciao Davide,
Congratulations for your accurate eye! But you are mistaken as there are no errors at all


Click to enlarge: http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/1268/thesukagods.jpg

In truth there are exactly two suns placed in that scenario. And 3 moons if you really must know. I did that intentionally because they are divinities.. gods, that will affect the player's karma in different ways according to certain days and certain hours of each day.

And besides, these images haven't been posted on the Projects forum, it's a topic in Third Party Tools. Therefore the images aren't exactly open for criticism just yet
I made a promise to Havoc that I would show him baked matching shadowmaps (stencils) through meshes and terrain and I did that.


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Traduco anche in Italiano avendo notato che hai molte difficolta' con l'inglese:

Non ci sono errori. In verita' ci sono esattamente due soli piazzati in quello scenario. E tre lune se proprio lo devi sapere. L'ho fatto intenzionalmente perche' sono delle divinita', che influenzeranno il karma del giocatore in maniera diversa in base ai giorni e alle ore.

E a prescindere da tutto questo, le immagini non sono state mostrate nella pagina dei progetti, ma in un topic di Third Party Tools. Da cio' si intende che quello che vedi non e' ancora pronto per la critica
Ho fatto una promessa ad Havoc che gli avrei mostrato baked shadowmap (stencils) tra mesh e terreno e l'ho fatto.

Bye bye!

Sorry my website hosting expired a few days ago so I re-uploaded my arts at page 22 and 23 on imageshack

Ciao Pietro... Il mio era un semplice avviso avente lo scopo di informarti dell' "anomalia". Adesso capisco il motivo delle 2 luci direzionali...

Prenderò al più presto possibile lezioni di inglese
Ciao ciao!

Hey there folks, I'm trying to model some foliage trees using SpeedTree Modeler 5.0. The trees look great in within the program but as soon as I export them to GameStudio with the differen lighting, shading and all .. they lose quality.
The real problem is that I can't have leaves that rotate towards the camera like if they were sprites and placing leaf sprites manually is quite a pain and a waste of time.
Also the alpha maps look less accurate for some reason.
Anyway I'm forced to keep static leaves in within the same mesh with the bark you know.
I'm modeling in a way so that I can hide those hard edges like in loopix trees (with all due respect of course I've used loopix's goodies in the past) while trying to keep them flow naturally.

Though work but I like the challenge.

the baked lightmap scene you did? its just one model correct? isnt that a huge hit on fps since it defeats the scene management? if it is one model, is that what you plan for your project or just you did it like that just for the test?

@darkinferno No it's not just one model. Shadowmaps for each mesh are individually rendered-to-texture. And no it doesn't eat framerate, at the contrary it's done to speed it up.

This is a sample of the second uv set of each mesh rendered ( simple ambient occlusion ) :

Click to enlarge: http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/394/newao.jpg

Don't pay attention to the framerate here, I was running my laptop on batteries, when I plugged it in the framerate went up x3



By the way I've been playing with the trees and this is what I got so far ( ) :


Click to enlarge: http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6387/aunnaloviuauonnafrikken.jpg
VERY IMPORTANT in wireframe: http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/962/uairless.jpg

Once again, colours might look dull just yet, there is no dynlighting nor hdrl on as I'm waiting for the new version of shade-c to fix it.

Also the terrain looks a bit too flat for my tastes, I'm probably gonna download EarthSculptor or something like that and see what I can pull out.