Thanks everybody




I also toyed around with a combination of scene-normals and scene-depth but always got strange results. When using the actual model normalmaps it works as it should:


As for the technique:
The depthmap gets refracted by a noisemap and then the original depthmap gets substracted from the blurred one. I do this like 32 times (each time with slightly different texcoords and tilingfactors) and then divide the result by 32 . I think that's basically it. If you are interisted, i can send you a copy of the shader sometime next week. Maybe we can work something out together on how to correctly use the scene-normals to create a more realistic look

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet. really looking forward to it.

Thanks, this will probably do it!

I'm glad You found motion blur idea useful
Mirror-shader would be superb, but actually it is very hard to make it working, I spent many days still no luck. There is horizontal mirror shader
in default 3dgs shaders file, but when it comes to vertical - many problems arise up from nowhere ^_^

This is a great shader lib.

Here is a little hint:
Do you know that includes shouldn't have a ; at line end in Lite-C? http://www.conitec.net/beta/include.htm
But all PRAGMA_... need a ; at line end. http://www.conitec.net/beta/define.htm
I mentioned only to avoid problems now and in the future.

Shade-C is AWESOME.
I love tinkering around with realtime DOF (although for some reason I still cant get it to autofocus ;p )
Combined with lightmaps...wow.
Next mission is to try it with the all in one shader...I assume I could put these lightmaps in skin 4?

test images:

nice work drew I haven't managed to get it to autofocus either. Can't wait for the next update BoH_Havoc

btw, i also tried to make autofocus and failed.. so we are waiting

Hi Drew,
nice to see you a bit more active again on these boards ^__^


Im gonna try and implement the new shade-c into my RPG game.
I did get autofocus to work on the old version...

i'll post my updates as well then

regards,

To get autofocus to work call sc_DoFautofocus() after calling sc_setup() (dunno if that's the right name of the function im at the uni atm, have a look at the manual)

sc_DoFautofocus(depth, focusspeed, on) (again, dunno if this is correct, depth & focusspeed might be switched)

depth = maximal depth autofocus should react to (you can set this to 50000)
focusspeed = speed of the focus from sharp to blurred (set this to 500 to see if it works, set to a lower value to get smooth transitions)
on = set to 1 to activate autofocus, otherwise 0

hope this helps



ps: started on projective softshadows for omnilights. watch out for the weekend


edit:


exactly, put the shadowmap on entSkin4. Keep in mind that it will use the 2nd uv skin!

First working projective shadowmapping for omni lights:




a little blur (screen spaced, nothing fancy)



Going to add variance shadowmapping now and then optimize the whole thing (frustrum culling, depth based poly clipping, etc). This'll take a while, but the first big step has been done