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Offline Turnsky

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mine always stayed at the 40-50 fps line, mind you:

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Offline ZylonBane

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Quote
Originally posted by LtNarol
for fog-missions, what if you added an option to fred which disables object rendering past 750 meters for fighters and bombers and 5000 meters for capital ships?
IIRC, FS2 already implements this sort of culling in a much more detailed fashion.
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Offline Bobboau

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and that wouldn't help the fact that polys with glow maps are being rendered supar bright in nebulas
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Offline phreak

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change this:

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d3d_verts[i].color = RGBA_MAKE(255, 255, 255, 0);


to this when in nebula missions

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d3d_verts[i].color = RGBA_MAKE(128, 128, 128, 0);
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Offline ZylonBane

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So, any plans to link this effect to damage, as with the glow points?
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Offline Bobboau

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a glow map can be asosiated with any bitmap, like the damage map for example, so all the dead turrets that use the damage.pcx texture will be rendered with the damage-glow.pcx as a glow map
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Offline ZylonBane

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Well, I meant perhaps having all the illuminated textures on a ship flicker or dim as it becomes critically damaged.
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Offline Setekh

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Quote
Originally posted by LtNarol
I have a suggestion that I feel may help the framerate; for fog-missions, what if you added an option to fred which disables object rendering past 750 meters for fighters and bombers and 5000 meters for capital ships?  It would obviously need to check distance from the camera point since the player can view from another ship, but still, the idea is simple.


Depending on your detail settings, by the time ships get that far from you, they'll be down to LOD3 or LOD4... which isn't many polys at all. We could always try and see, though, since the nebula completely brings down visibility.
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Offline ZylonBane

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To reiterate, FS2 already does this. I was perusing the source and found a few pages that appear to distance-cull ships in nebulas at varying distances based on their type.
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Offline RandomTiger

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Nice one Bob :yes:

 

Offline Bobboau

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I have made a newer build while testing with TBP, I uploaded this just before the VW servers whent down, I was compiling a relese build wich is why I didn't update the other zip,
I have aslo made a glowmap enabled version of TBP also.

the VW servers are back now
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Offline Nico

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what's new in this new version?
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Offline Bobboau

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I fixed a bug that was causeing TBP to crash, it wasoverwriteing memory when it made the ABtrails, note, the AB trails do not work for some reason
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Offline Nuke

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WE BE 'SHWAGGIN!!!

i should update my mod to include this stuff, its been offline sence i updated my page. all that work i put into making glowing spots on my ships only to trade in the old voodoo 3 for a geforce4 and an ati mobility 9000.

now a couple questions:

1. this is a form of multitexturing, right. will this lead to stuff like pixel shaders, bumb mapping, reflectance mapping, environment mapping and all that cool stuff?

2. will the glowing spots shine on nearby surfaces?

3. could we use this to replace the old fashoned meathod of setting lightsources.
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Offline Nico

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I can reply:
no, no, no, no, and I might have forgoten a no, so here is one more: no. That's unfortunate, but it has nothing to do with all that, it's not even a sel-illumination. map.
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Offline RandomTiger

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Bob, I dont see how turning off the fog will help since the whole object will be clipped after its too deep into the fog.

You may want to consider turning that feature off in the fog for now until you find a better solution. I suspect you may have to fog the effect vertex with a different factor to the normal ones to get it looking right.

Just for the record Bob, I expect this effect will throw up some problems when full HT&L gets done since its seems to be rendering two things in the exact same space.

Im surprised that it doesnt even seem to slow my machine down.
« Last Edit: January 07, 2003, 07:05:15 am by 848 »

 

Offline Bobboau

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it's re-rendering the same polygon after translation and lighting (so yes this probly will cause HT&L problems, unless the T&L step can be seperated from the rasterization step or we can tell it to render each primiteve twice with diferent flags and textures)

the problem with fog is that it (seems as if) it's getting twice the fogging it should be getting becase the poly is getting rendered twice,
I'm thinking if I just turn foging off and then use some sort of inverse of the fog values for lighting values (so the further away the dimmer they seem) it will work right

the proces this uses is; in the final step of poly rendering, just after the poly is rasterised, while I still have all of it's verts (in screen coordanants), I set the texture to be the glow map assosiated with the current texture (if there is one, otherwise I just leave), then I set it's (verts') lighting (color) values all to 255,255,255,0, and I set the poly to be rendered useing additive alpha, then I render it again, the effect is all polys rendered have another poly rendered additively in the _exact_ same place useing the _exact_ same values, this way I don't have to recalculate the transformations for each vert and I don't have to worry about any Z errors,
I could use a similar trick to make multi-texturing and just leave the lighting values alone

I'm also thinking it might be a good idea to redo the entire system that the model rendering system uses, I don't think it should use g3_draw_poly at all, but make a list of polys to be rendered, then all defpoints get transformed, then we use the gr_draw_primitive (I think that's what it's called, the thing that g3_draw_poly calls) to go through and render them, this way the transformation proces gets called only about 1/3 as oftine, also, this would make the transition to HT&L a bit easier, and we could use vertex buffers the do the whole thing in one go.

and I also think it might be a good idea to make vert buffers as part of each subobject, there can be a OGL equivelent only one of these gets used based on wich rendering mode were in
« Last Edit: January 07, 2003, 08:56:41 am by 57 »
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Offline Goober5000

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about that warp pof...

this one
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/warp.zip
 is the newest one you put up (hidden away in some obscure post); I thought I'd bring it up again.

I have to saw - this is a really awesome warp effect, Bobboau.  Nice work. :yes: :jaw:

 

Offline Bobboau

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actualy I think that is the older one, it will keep you're game from crashing but it's half the size it should be,
when I get back home tonight I'll update it, but I've got to get to work and drop my mom off at my aunts house
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Offline Goober5000

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Hmm, you're right - then where is the zip I got?

Oh well, I zipped it myself - here it is.  Very cool effect. :)