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What should it be?
A calculation-way of rendering a mesh?
Something like Parallax Occlusion Mapping?

I was going to say, now hummels previous post makes sense. that all mapped on one quad?

Basically ray-traced low-res depth fields with geometric antialiasing. I'll provide in-depth information as soon as I open an extra thread. The underlying rasterized geometry is a box, but it also works with a quad.

Sounds interesting. How is the geometry data stored?

Atm: red - depth, green - offset id, blue - normal id
The offset can be used to give a vertical face the normal of the adjacent texel or to prevent it from using the modified normal of the own texel if the adjacent texel doesn't use one. There are no real sloped faces, they didn't pay of performance-wise. The hardest part is actually the AA. It's also by far the biggest part of the shader.

Finished my thesis and started to work on the reworked Sponza scene again. The modeling is done, I am currently migrating it to A8:

Looking for subrealistic hand painted patterns for terrains


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txesmi@ nice picture man! But I still think, that you should replace those white stripes, with ropes

The terrain looks really nice, I like it! The differences in texture scale are cool, too. The knight probably could use a more fancy material but the screen shot is only about the terrain, right?