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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
...Updating your drivers isn't "changing settings", nor is it a "workaround". In fact, it should be the first thing you try when you get a driver crash.
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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
Me. Generally, I agree that changing settings via the AMD Radeon settings could be a workaround, until at least it's fixed in newer builds.

Could you please answer the question that was posted? Noone asked anything about "changing settings" (which doesn't help in fixing driver crashes in my experience), you were asked whether or not updating drivers fixed the crash you experienced.
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Me. Generally, I agree that changing settings via the AMD Radeon settings could be a workaround, until at least it's fixed in newer builds.

Could you please answer the question that was posted? Noone asked anything about "changing settings" (which doesn't help in fixing driver crashes in my experience), you were asked whether or not updating drivers fixed the crash you experienced.

Yes, along with updates to the operating system themselves. I did not experience crashes when no other applications running in hardware acceleration mode.

And, I've tested this PBR build. While it looks flawless, there's only one problem. The transparencies of HUD gauges (both LUA and non-LUA). They seem to be nearly opague (see attachment below).

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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
New build. I didn't really change much other than increaseing the threshold for the brightpass and made specular maps render at all detail levels.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/sa5kj9l84n81jzy/pbr_pbr_ed2bbc35_r2.zip

 

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Wow. Trying on it now.
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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
There's now an official pull request. https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com/pull/536

Please continue submitting feedback if you have any.

 

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The transparencies of HUD gauges (both LUA and non-LUA). They seem to be nearly opague (see attachment below).

Yeah, this is still an issue. Hud gauges are now always full bright, which I guess isn't a bad thing by itself (certainly more visible) but it does cause this to happen to me with my scripted message gauge. The problem here is I draw 2 monochrome images on top of each other, a dark gray one and then a colored one on top so it stands out more and is easier to read. (Now it stands out a little too much.)

Also subtitles don't fade in or out. They just... appear!

Thinking about it a bit more, it seems all these graphics seem to have max alpha all the time, whether they should or not.

(Also the washout glare from the sun seems to have a wider effect. This one cutscene I had is washed out for a lot longer than I was anticipating)

Other than that, very pretty, very shiney. Much bloom. Such HDR. Wow.

 

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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
Okay, I got a better idea of the HUD issue. It looks like the constant alpha defined in the passthrough shader wasn't being applied. I committed a fix to the branch.

I don't know what to do about the washout glare from the sun. I'm not sure if it's part of the brightpass for the bloom or not. Maybe the fixes to the passthrough shader may have fixed it but who knows.

 

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I don't know what to do about the washout glare from the sun. I'm not sure if it's part of the brightpass for the bloom or not. Maybe the fixes to the passthrough shader may have fixed it but who knows.
Reduce a washout glare intensity into a narrower effect - this means the sun gets brighter and covers the screen in white when the sun is ONLY at the center of the screen. I think you should make changes to the lightshaft shader.
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The latest fixes fixes the hud and the subtitle fades, but this still happens. :(

 

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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
Per Axem, I've been encountering more or less the same issues.
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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
There's now an official pull request. https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com/pull/536

Please continue submitting feedback if you have any.

Is PBR going to be forced onto people? We've been working with the "traditional" lighting model for so long that it isn't practically feasible to create PBR assets or convert non-PBR assets to PBR for everything that's been released. :(
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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
You won't be forced, all the old texture types still work. I've been running some mods without any special PBR textures and it works fine (aside from a few image scripting problems that Swifty is working on). Even without PBR textures, you'll still get some amazing bloom effects to pretty up everything. :)

 

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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
You won't be forced, all the old texture types still work.
I'm pretty sure that at least half of all existing screenshots that have been taken of the PBR branch involve non-PBR assets, for that matter...
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<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

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<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.

 

Offline Talon 1024

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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
The thing is, specular maps created for use with the old lighting model don't look very good in PBR builds.

No PBR:


PBR:
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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
Can you redo one of those with the same bloom settings as the other?  I think at least some differences I see there are directly bloom related.
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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
It seems to me that the bloom scale has somewhat changed. Setting smaller values there is probably a good idea.
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Offline Swifty

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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
I don't think it's the lighting model. It's likely the HDR and how we're now doing gamma correction. Try and see if the models look the same in a non-PBR build vs a PBR build with post processing turned off in the command line arguments.

 

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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
I don't think it's the lighting model. It's likely the HDR and how we're now doing gamma correction. Try and see if the models look the same in a non-PBR build vs a PBR build with post processing turned off in the command line arguments.

OK.

No post-processing, using a non-PBR build.
EDIT: I apparently had post-processing hidden when I took that previous screenshot with the non-PBR build. I've replaced the previous screenshot with a new one with post-processing turned on.


No post-processing, using a PBR build
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Re: Physically-Based Rendering Builds
Aren't bloom and FXAA post-proc features?
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