Wrote a color scheme picker tool in Java (Swing). You can load a template XML with all predefined colors, the GUI is generated and then you can pick each color separately. Exports to human-readable XML.



Next step: Importing that into Gamestudio

@HeelX: great tool, can be really useful

I'm currently working on some improvements for my rendering pipeline.
(improved the lighting, material shading, depth of field, bloom and SSAA):




todo: moar speed

I really like the lighting on the second show, great stuff! Is there a pink light in the first shot, that I don't see? Because there a pink fragments in the lionhead.

How do you blur the scene for DOF? Box-, Gaussianblur or something else?

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I was too tired to do that with Photopaint and I also wanted to begin with XML code for my project, I thought that was the best way to start with it

I was very suprised that colorpicking in JAVA is working actually very well, just a few lines of code to do that.

yeah, these aren't gliches. It's just a light from above (shadows would be waaay to slow).

for the dof I'm using slin's implementation of a 2-pass hexagonal blur.

The shader of the lion's head looks very good.

But I'm a little bit confused about the DOF shader.
It looks more like a model with a very low-res texture.
The edges (border) of the model is too sharp.
I think this is the reason why the ball with the white texture looks much sharper than the basin/bowl under the ball.

@Kartoffel
Wow, great looking. Great lightning. I like everything, dof is cool too. Wish my scenes would be shadered / look like this.

@rvl_exile
Yeah, great as always.
But as SuperKu mentioned before, texture seams too big.

I need some critics for the following forest scene: please make critics about the vegetation movement in the wind. Do you think it's to much or is it ok?

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g89yCzwL3jA

(Please don't look at the framerate, I recorded with my crappy 3 year old laptop)

i think the Gras model is to much affected from the wind... reduce a bit the movement / the speed of movement.

regards Sebastian

The animation of the LOD trees looks really bad. Also I think the grass is moving too fast compared to the trees. So you should probably make the grass move a bit less and the trees a bit more or something like that...
I really like the trees in the foreground, are they yours, or can I buy them somewhere?

Even with a 3 years old laptop, why is it that slow? What are your laptops specs? Are there that many trees outside the visible area? Do you blend out far away grass? Does the recording kill the fps, or is it > 30 fps without shadows? Just wondering as it should be faster...

I think it is not realistic that the trunks of the trees are moving in the wind (it's not a storm, it's only a wind ).

The speed of the vegetation movement is okay. But the movement itself does not look realistic. It looks more like a 'Metronome':