rd-rend2 (old thread)

[Guest KENNITHH]

Yea I guess cubemaps + wave shader + (doesn't JK have some kind of distortion effect in their nades? this could be cool too to make the water look blurry) would be pretty awesome already.

 

And I actually ment this http://www.moddb.com/mods/ddaynormandy/images/dday-normandy-with-an-enchanted-graphics-engine

 

But the berserker one looks cool too.

 

And pitty that MD5 wont be added might be good for a seperate mod maybe which can be combined with Rend2?

[Szico VII]

[minilogoguy18]

Nice, wanna job with the DF2 mod Szico? =p

[DT.]

^This.

 

Totally can't wait for rend2 on SP, will blast DF2 off to new heights of quality.

[eezstreet]

such lens flare

wow

[Darth_Bothersome]

I have no idea how relevant this is, but it has to do with water rendered in a form of OpenGL. And it's really fun to play around with.

 

http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

[ensiform]

Not really relevant at all because it doesn't adapt to the rendering pipeline.  But yea it is pretty cool, seen it before.

[Xycaleth]

Okay, back from weekend away, got ill in the process, but I'm ready to continue work on this again Stay tuned over the next few days.

[Boothand]

I could make a thread for this (tell me if I should), but just wondered if there's a quick trick to making normal maps look correct in rend2! Szico deserves a break but I guess I'm hinting a bit at his works At the moment it looks and behaves the same way it did when I tried this a year-ish ago before rend2 was in the works/ports. It all looks like big plastic bubbles, no matter what I test it on.

 

Shader:

 

 

 

textures/bootland/concrete_wall
{
	qer_editorimage textures/bootland/concrete_wall
	q3map_normalimage textures/bootland_nmaps/concrete_wall_nmap.tga
	q3map_lightmapsamplesize 2x2
	q3map_shadeangle 60 //have tried other angles
	{
	map $lightmap
	rgbGen identity
	}
	{
	map textures/bootland/concrete_wall
	blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO
	}
}

etc...

 

 

 

Test-screenshots:

 

 

 

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58757568/normalMap1.png

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58757568/normalMap2.png

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58757568/concrete_wall_nmap.jpg

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58757568/closet_door2_nmap.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: Made new thread here.

[Xycaleth]

Yeah you want to make a separate thread the normal maps you're having problems with are used only by q3map2 and the shading is baked into the lightmap.

[Szico VII]

@@Xycaleth

 

q3map_sunExt seems to be bugged ingame when using the default renderer. BaseJA, rend2 both render the sky normally when using this shader command, however in OpenJK default renderer it seems to not recognise the deviance stage of the shader and displays the sky as a texture not found.

 

Ive also noticed when taking screenshots, it does not preserve the antialiasing.... and fraps completely bugs out

 

textures/skies/bootland
{
qer_editorimage textures/skies/sky
surfaceparm sky
surfaceparm noimpact
surfaceparm nomarks
notc
q3map_nolightmap
skyParms textures/skies/yavin 512 -
q3map_sunext 1 1 1 1000 155 50 0.5 8
}

Error is "unrecognised command "0.5" in shader xxxxx

 

Wonder if this is due to any changes you made to the vanilla renderer?

[Szico VII]

Rend2 comparisons@:

[ensiform]

That looks like Bioshock Infinite holy shit

[Astral Serpent]

Holy shit.

[DT.]

You should increase the shadow size in the console. I use:
 

r_shadowMapSize 2048

 

Can't wait for rend2 SP, this is simply amazing. Will look even better when specular is working and there's a bloom version of dynamic glow.

 

 

EDIT:

 

Drop this into your base folder: 

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zh9qp23es0rgxwc/zzzz_rend2_menu.pk3

 

Has a fair amount of rend2's options. It also removes vanilla specific options from VIDEO, so if you want those options back then remove the pk3.

[Szico VII]

I tried with that - It appeared to make everything lag a lot more...

 

 

Though the "auto-normalmap" did make it look a bit nicer and the SSAO seems to make it smoother

[ensiform]

Have you tried with tga and png screenshots to see if theres any difference ?

[Szico VII]

How might one do that>?

[eezstreet]

/screenshot something.png

/screenshot somethingelse.tga

 

I think there might be /screenshotPNG and /screenshotTGA (?) commands

[ensiform]

You have to use the respective commands not adding the extension.

 

screenshot by itself is jpg screenshot_tga is tga, screenshot_png is png.

 

NOTE: PNG screenshots in vanilla don't gamma correct, everything else does and all 3 do in rend2.

 

And JPEG screenshot command is identical.  Sounds like issue/conflict with driver or something.

[Guest KENNITHH]

Awesome szico , and is it me or does the water look slightly different too? And are you using a normal map on the water? I think games like battlefield use it, might be worth a shot even though it looks nice already.

 

And is that a working lense flare?

[ensiform]

Lens flares are ezpz can even be done by cgame ref ents.

[Szico VII]

I have no idea what ensiform said

 

Heres a vid of rend2, I finally got it to record properly by turning off r_postprocess

 

[ensiform]

I just meant you dont need special renderer to have lens flares, you can do it with some simple client side mod code and the necessary images/shaders.

[Szico VII]

I'm guessing nobody has added that to OpenJK though?