Hi,

I´m working on a lighting pipeline for A7 I called LightFrog.
I want to give you a first idea of what I´m workin´ on.



The goal is to create a pipeline supporting the most important techniques for todays game lighting.
This includes basic lightsources types and materials as well as shadow mapping.



I´ll also implement pp-effects like bloom, blur, SSAO and color grading stuff like 'bleach bypass':



There is currently just one material for standard bumpmapping.
This first Demo is not thought to give you content which can already be implemented in your projects but it´s more a test to see how far everything works now.
Some problems are known like shadow issues when using small screen resolutions but compare with the pics above and see whether you can find some strange artifacts when running the demo on your systems.

Get the demo from HERE

Also let me know how fast it runs.


regards,


EDIT1: should you get an "error in effect" message try to put the D3DCompiler_42.dll from your GS folder into the bin folder of the demo.
There is a bug which causes problem with the auto switch to a fallback pipeline for computer systems which doenst support MRTs.
This will be fixed in the next version.

Talk to JCL,
Acknex needs serious lightning, and your examples are just WOW.

Wow, really really nice. Looks soo great Can't find the right words


I get 30-50 fps(at max display res, running at 50 Hz) - and it is looking so great

Especially cause i need a good spotlight XD


(btw: You've written F5 - change resolution twice)

edit: my specs:
Intel Pention D @ 2,8 GhZ
nVidia Geforce 9600 GT 512 mb DDR3
3 GB Ram
1920x1080 Full HD Display

Just interested:
Selling or just releasing for community?(or even, as sugested above) integrating for Ax?(x the number of the engine 7/8)

Got one problem:

2 examples wher it says PS2 on the lower left corner(a spotlight and another thing) just dont show up on my ATI HD 4870

EDIT: oh and is it just my weird mind or could this finally compete with UT3 engine?

Great. Have 15 - 30 fps on my laptop (Intel Core 2 Quad 2GHz)

I have steady 60fps at all times. (Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5GHz, ATi Radeon HD3870x2)

Only the example with the 3spotlights+shadowmap+cookie drops to 30fps.
rest is 60+ fps

ATIHD 4870
Dualcore(intel) @ 2.66GHZ

argh, forgot to change the PS version back to 2 after debugging. ATI cards can´t handle shaders where vertex and pixel shader using different versions.
You can scroll down in FX_lightPass_SL.fx and FX_lightPass_PL.fx and change
PixelShader = compile ps_3_0 PS(); to PixelShader = compile ps_2_0 PS(); if you want to see them with ATI cards too.

Omnidirectional Shadowmapping (sm for pointlights) is a fps killer, they are evil. It´s better to avoid them.

LightFrog will be my contribution to the tools-contest, so it´ll be absolutely free.

This is soooooo cool, hummel! good luck!

this goes to the moddb page, people loves this stuff.

edit:

for some reason i can't switch to 1920x1080 at 1600xsomething fps is 40 and 40 straight(not going between 39-40 and stuff constant 40.) card: somewhat OCd in factory 9600gt 1gb.