[AdmiralRalwood]

Is this the first set of PBR assets done since the new texture types were added?

[DahBlount]

Afaik, yes. I haven't gotten around to making an -unlit map and separating the AO from the diffuse, but that's fairly simple compared to all the work involved in converting the old -shine maps to proper -reflect maps. I have to include every bit of detail that should have a different gloss value in the alpha channel or else it won't look right.

Update: More work, the reflections now accurately take into account the color and material of the surface, also did more work on the gloss mask.


Update 2: Have a vidya.

[Skarab]

Looking awesome... nice pick using one of the best looking models in the game to do this.

[DahBlount]

Hades asked me to recolor the Medusa a bit. Now it's a metallic blue instead of the greenish gray it was before.

[niffiwan]

niiiiice, this should be reposted to Celebration of Freespace

[Kobrar44]

Soooo pretty, and only 50$!

[Swifty]

That's looking real good.

[Cobra]

Hades asked me to recolor the Medusa a bit. Now it's a metallic blue instead of the greenish gray it was before.

I have the most awkward boner right now.

[Solatar]

Trying to compile the latest PBR builds (since the ones in this thread seem to be out of date). Do I need MSVC 2010 to compile from Swifty's branch (that's the latest version I see), or am I just missing the pabst_bleu_ribbon branch somewhere?

Context: I downloaded MSVC 2015 several hours ago, and successfully compiled a build from master for the first time about 30 minutes ago. Google is answering most of my questions about visual studio, but this is so specific to FSO that I can't find a solution.

Badass bomber by the way. I want to like the canon color better, but damn that blue looks sexy.

[niffiwan]

You don't need MSVC2010; I'd recommend using 2015 Community edition since it's the most recent and it'll allow you to compile FRED as well.

To compile a PBR build, you need to get this branch: https://github.com/SamuelCho/fs2open.github.com/tree/physically_based_rendering

In general git terms; you need to:
1) Add Swifty's fork as a remote
2) Checkout the branch
3) Compile per normal

(both are quite easy to do with SourceTree; which is the git tool I use most on Windows)

[Solatar]

I was looking in scp-fs2open for a pbr branch, which explains why I didn't find it.  Thanks for the link to the fork, I didn't know that existed. Worked perfectly in 2015 Community Edition; super easy. Thanks!

[Bryan See]

Has the PBR merged into the nightly builds already?

[DahBlount]

No it hasn't.

[Swifty]

At this point I'm just waiting for the RC cycle to finish so someone will finally give it approval to merge in. At the moment I'm currently just working on bringing FSO to OpenGL Core compliance.

[Bryan See]

And what of Vulkan API support?

[AdmiralRalwood]

And what of Vulkan API support?

Nobody's written it yet.

[Swifty]

We're in no position to even consider Vulkan right now when we don't even have OpenGL Core working.

[manwiththemachinegun]

Umm, so, coming into this blind. All I know is these screen shots are really cool.

Is this an extra modification to Freespace Media VPS 2014? Some new lighting setting? What is the secret ingredient?

[niffiwan]

It's a separate build of FSO. Download it from the 1st post, and run it like any other build.

[Mito [PL]]

Firstly, now I can't imagine playing Freespace without PBR. Thanks!
Secondly, about that bug: it also tends to screw up shield gauges, and having binary shield indicators is... at least annoying. Since it was been fixed... When do we, mortals who don't know how to compile FSO, get a nice and pretty upload of the fixed version?
That bug happens on ed2bbc35 build.