Really good looking!
Another "proof" that you still can create some good looking games with 3DGS, although it´s paintful.

@^: more like painfully slow

but yeah, looks cool.
keep it up!

This is how you do it, nice!

Played around with the AMD CubeMapGen tool (check it out, it's cool!) and now I use a static cubemap for GI (very small and blurred), a bigger version with slightly more detail of it for environment map reflections (I use cubemaps from Emil Persson aka Humus). And, as I said, a HDR studio cubemap for the light reflections to make it glossy. Realtime, engine footage with FXAA:





Next: Screen Space Reflections for the plate... to mirror the rings!

Looking good but the sides of the white rings are somehow too dark for my taste/ should look different. I'd try making the sides of the white rings a little bit darker at the bottom (using some kind of brightness mask or via InPos calculation). I use chrome/ metal fake reflections all the time in my game and using a brightness base mask which I multiply with the output really adds a lot to the result.

Good remark! I am still struggling with the light composition, because I use several sources.. ambient, hdr, sky, sun light. I will work on that.

Nice. Con it on.

I got the realtime ring reflection working!



It is a screen-space reflection approach, for which I directly compute the screen-space coordinates, so that I get pixel perfect reflections without distortions. I do this by rendering first only the mirrored meshes, flipped along the mirror plane and printing the screen-space UV's of the non-flipped mesh.

Then I render the whole scene and add the mirrored pixels in a postprocessing step + FXAA.

I fade out the mirrored pixels by their distance to the mirror plane, by a fresnel term between surface normal and view normal and the distance of the mirrored pixel to the viewport borders.

Uh.... yeah...

But looks great

Looks really good! Keep going!