[Nemesis6]

I've tried going with an older install now. These problems started occuring after i used the SCP 2.2 Re-release. I don't seem to have any problems now, so take my reported errors with a grain of salt.

I did find one new error, though. This happens in the Straight, No Chaser mission:


Do notice the corruption on the craft itself, too. Happens the second you start, disappears, happens again, then it's gone. Oh, what the hell, I'm on a roll here: Pilot chat also seems to be missing as command starts talking to themself - *silence* "Say again pilot, another portal?"... *silence*... "Can you locate the Azrael?".

[Hery]

Unfortunately, I am not able to reproduce this bug. Could you send me your debug log?
Have you updated also the *.sdr files?

[Topgun]

I've tried going with an older install now. These problems started occuring after i used the SCP 2.2 Re-release. I don't seem to have any problems now, so take my reported errors with a grain of salt.

I did find one new error, though. This happens in the Straight, No Chaser mission:


Do notice the corruption on the craft itself, too. Happens the second you start, disappears, happens again, then it's gone. Oh, what the hell, I'm on a roll here: Pilot chat also seems to be missing as command starts talking to themself - *silence* "Say again pilot, another portal?"... *silence*... "Can you locate the Azrael?".

aahh, what?

[Solatar]

This has been working quite well for me actually.  The only problem I'm having is that it doesn't seem to have the fix for 720p resolution that most of the recent builds do (it tries to use the low-res interface art). This is easily solved by changing though.

The shaders look quite nice, and other than a bit of motion sickness I haven't had any problems.

[chief1983]

Zacam's builds are the only ones with it because it's not in trunk yet I believe.  He's been applying that fix locally.  If it's working it should probably make it into trunk though.

[portej05]

It's all going into the next Antipodes - I did intend to do it tonight, but then those memset and vm_malloc issues cropped up.

[Dark RevenantX]

Here to report that the post processing builds are now working correctly on the latest radeon cards (I use an HD 4870).  Absolutely no problems to report, except for unclear instructions on how to use the post processing table.  Most values just give me an incomprehensible cube-arranged mess of speckles...

Some post processing filters to think about are gamma and hue controls, posterization, cell shading (outlines and such - this would be more difficult to implement), screen space warping, guassian blur, ghosting (basically a crude motion blur that you'd see when injured in, say, a Call of Duty game), and color inversion.  Some of these could be combined to, for example, have a first-person view of entering a warpout when you end your mission.

Something that would be extremely useful is the ability for conditional post processing - I'd like to see some full-screen distortion and contrast/saturation fudging when hit by an EMP bomb, for instance.  Being in the wake of a shockwave would also be grounds for possibly some light distortion and a gamma increase.  A subspace mission would need some overbright post processing, maybe some ramped up saturation and contrast, and an intense but tight bloom effect.  A nebula mission would need a less intense bloom, but the glow would be very large, giving a greater impression of a murky soup that disperses light.

Also, the mjolnir blockade mission is really fun with bloom activated...

[Hery]

I will create a Wiki article with instructions on how to modify post_processing.tbl when my code is commited to the Antipodes branch.

Gamma, hue, color inversion and posterization are very easy, they can be implemented without any change to the FSO code. Actually, there is a posterization implemented in post-f.sdr but this part of the code is commented out. Cell shading also isn't a complicated effect but to implement it really easily there will be needed a little change to the engine code. Gaussian blur is already implemented and working (used in depth of field and bloom, the former is disabled in the code, though, since there is no good interface to control this effect).

I've already thought about how to control post-processing effects in more convenient way than using SEXP. Unfortunatelly, I think it is pointless to hack into code any workarounds until configuration manager is (at least partially) done.

[Mongoose]

Cel-shading was once implemented in a non-post-processing manner, wasn't it?  Is that code still in the engine, or did it get ripped out at some point because no one was really doing anything with it?

[Spoon]

Cal-shading huh? I would be very interested in how that looks.

[Zacam]

Cell Shading used to take place under DX Codebase if you ran with mv_cell.vp.

[Mongoose]

Ah, so it was D3D-dependent, then.

[Woolie Wool]

Is there any way to adjust the bloom? On atmospheric skybox missions it is so bright that it makes my eyes want to melt and run down my face.

[Hery]

-bloom_intensity X
0 is no bloom, 100 is maximum bloom

This problem will be solved, but I have to do some other things first.

[Dark RevenantX]

-bloom_intensity X
0 is no bloom, 100 is maximum bloom

You should probably force that 100 cap, then, because values above 100 work for me.  It's really insane at 500+...

[Solatar]

Is there a similar way to control motion blur? Maybe just on and off? I love the bloom and other effects, but the motion blur is just making me sick (it's not your fault, it looks great, I'm just very prone to motion sickness for some reason).

[Hery]

There is no motion blur, since October 11th.

[Solatar]

I was just about to post that in the most recent builds, I didn't notice it.

I've been playing with the most recent build, and it's been working wonderfully.

[Fury]

I was wondering here if Hery or anyone else has managed to fix colors going funky when "stripes" post-processing effect is used? We don't have many effects at our disposal in .11/.12, so I was hoping those few would work without unwanted side-effects.

[Fury]

Another issue, it would be much appreciated if bloom wouldn't affect skyboxes. It makes some of them look really bad.