rd-rend2 (old thread)

[eezstreet]

You can also use a post-processing effect to render (better and more accurate) lens flares.

[Szico VII]

*cough* if you tell me how to I shall do it

[eezstreet]

Do you know GLSL?

[Szico VII]

No I meant in radiant

 

Incidentally, someone asked for a base vs rend2 of moonbase, so here it is:

 

[Xycaleth]

Dat parallax mapping

[minilogoguy18]

[eezstreet]

2dark4me @those screens

Also, not quite sure what you're on about. If you're referring to ensigorm's method, you'll need a new entity.

[ensiform]

Wouldn't necessarily need to be a server-side entity though, could be purely cg_spawn.c

[MoonDog]

The rend2 branch is the best place to grab the code to compile, yes?

 

https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK/tree/rend2

[eezstreet]

Yes. My rend2motionblur branch has motion blur (WIP) as well.

[MoonDog]

Hmmmm... I think I must have fucked something up.

[eezstreet]

Try a clean + rebuild, I've heard of this error before but I don't totally recall how to fix it. You might also try making sure you're running as administrator (or alternatively, making sure the code is in your homepath/documents folder somewhere) and/or installing Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2010 (not sure what version you're using there offhand)

[Raz0r]

I think you have to remove .NET 4.5? Something like that.

[Xycaleth]

For Visual Studio 2010, you need to install the VS2010 service pack 1.

[afi]

This or (what I did) remove .net 4.5

[Stoiss]

how does .net 4.5 do a problem here ?

i have it all in win 8.1 with 2010 + 2010 sp patch and 2012 and i have no problems compile it

[ensiform]

MSBuild relies on .NET Framework because it is a managed app written in C# with .NET  (Its not even located in the VC directory or WinSDK platform directory)

[Boothand]

Are there any shader keywords or any cvars that could control the intensity of the shadows themselves? It seems even with very subtle normal maps, the shadows themselves are totally black. Would be nice to see grey/transparent shadows, though I understand if it's not available or too expensive for the engine. Didn't find anything related to that in the readme, as far as I could understand it.

[Xycaleth]

Which shadows are you referring to? Can you post a screenshot please?

[Boothand]

For example on walls that are facing the sun, the shadows seem to be very pitch black. I'm quite happy with the sun intensity, though I might change it if there's not a way to control the shading strength of the normal maps in another way. For some reason, the lower portion of the brick wall decides to be very shaded. The planks are also a bit too intense looking when facing the sun. It would feel more realistic if they were more grey-ish, revealing the texture underneath.

 

[Xycaleth]

That does look odd. What does your shader look like, and what does the normal map look like?

[Boothand]

That does look odd. What does your shader look like, and what does the normal map look like?

 

Shader:

 

 

 

textures/bootland/bricks3
{
	qer_editorimage	textures/bootland/bricks3
	{
		map textures/bootland/bricks3
	}
	{
		stage normalparallaxmap
		map textures/bootland_nmaps/bricks3_nmap
	}
	{
		map $lightmap
		blendfunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO
	}
}

 

 

 

 

Normal map + parallax in alpha channel:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It has to do with the sun's elevation though, which was 30 in the screenshot. It doesn't happen if the elevation is higher, like 70.

[Tempust85]

How does the normal + parallax maps look in a 3d program?

[Boothand]

Unsure how to setup both normal maps and displacement in 3DS Max, but using the parallax as displacement I get this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's got some issues, but on the other hand I kind of like the cartoonish shapes of it. On the other other hand, I should learn to control how it displaces. I guess I need to Photoshop the transitions more properly. Tried exporting displacement from a nice Zbrush model I tweaked out of it, but got a quite useless barely visible map from it.

 

There's another place in game, by the way, where the black stuff doesn't happen, even being at the same angle.

 

But here's a screenshot of the same place I showed, sun height at 50. This time the texture seems to be washed out in the lower half, and the black evilness growing in the end over there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonus question:

Is specular mapping broken?

[Xycaleth]

I think DT mentioned it was broken a few pages back. Unfortunately I'm still not feeling great and so no more changes to report this week