I'm making good progress with rewriting my deferred rendering pipeline.

I just implemented a modified version of slins hexagonal blur to make a depth of field effect:



...and compared to my old rendering pipeline it runs ~3x faster.

Looks very impressive! Does it support 32 bit textures (e.g. windows, vegetation,...)?

I don't really like dof blurring, like in shade-c (I started my shade-c exploration by removing it), but it is much smoother, I mean better I saw only one fps game where it looks really cool on outdoor scenes, but don't remember its name...

thanks

@oliver: the pipeline is a deferred rendering (only opaque) and forward rendering (opaque + transparent) hybrid so yeah it works but only with ugly lighting

@sivan: some current games (mostly AAA) have pretty good dof ;D
But in older games it was just annoying in the most cases

yes it was a recent AAA, and it was not really classical blurring, something more picturesque

Looks pretty good. I like it

Where do I find that?

By the way, nice pics!

@Heelx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q7F_5jIPhw

How does other deferred pipelines handle this problem? As far as I know CryEngine3 (Far Cry 3), GTA 4, Skyrim and many other uses this technique.

I decided to totally rewrite shade-c 0.91 object shaders to be really compatible with 3dgs material settings (specular did not work at all), and to work fine with dynamic lights. finally, everything is okay now: map entities, models, vertex animated trees, and multitextured terrains with or without lightmap.
terrain got a simple per pixel lighting option because vertex based dynamic lights can look very ugly (but slightly slower). they are my first own made shaders only the shadowmapping calculations are kept (but corrected too):