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Hehe, no that was a good one

Posted on: 2018/3/21 10:38
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I know ! That was just to put a funny cosmic post to bring us from a tiny dimension to a far bigger one. Nothing was serious. Kinda hyperbolic but not serious.

Next time I will send you into another dimension.

Posted on: 2018/3/21 17:16
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Watching, but busy lately. Liked the ambient noises out there in the galaxy.

Try this one:

https://youtu.be/TX_X685TGtc

It's got a part 2:

https://youtu.be/i5GnLLZYGxw


Posted on: 2018/3/27 21:23
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On the first one Earth sounds like guinea pigs asking for some food.

On the second one Neutron star collision remind me of cartoon SFX or Dihydrogen combustion.

LOL

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I was interested if some of that stellar noise
isn't the cosmic version of Satellite Radio
running down the top ten from Planet X.
If that's "The Music of the Spheres" then
I'll stick with good ol' Terran Rock and Roll.

And what do THEY think of all the radio noise
we're spewing at them?

Posted on: 2018/3/31 23:34
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Guys it's been fun, but I need to remind you that posting in my topic costs you 10€ for every off topic post. I am kind enough to grant you the ones up to now for free, but from now on it's going to be expensive

Btw.: I have to turn in the thesis next Friday so I'll start working on the wrapper after that again.

Posted on: 2018/4/1 10:57
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10€ ! Are you kidding ? I would pay more ! Yes I like to be wrapped in fur ! (it doesn't seem to be the truth though...)

I was waiting for this kind of news, I hope you will get great results. Last time to work on it.

Come back to the topic. I would so much like to have the possibility to test the texture I do directly into the wrapper. Or someone has other alternative to xNormal ? Because I can't make occlusion map working.

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Or someone has other alternative to xNormal ? Because I can't make occlusion map working.


Try using Sketchfab, its an online model upload & viewing service.
Here is one of my models: https://sketchfab.com/models/da1ffd1deff543a3a94403f54557df6b

Posted on: 2018/4/2 10:06
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I have asked Skotty and he is going to help me to extract my renderer from the engine we are working on since ages to build an external model preview. It currently renders the FL models so that we have something to work with. I only need to add the normal and parallax mapping stuff, but that is needed anyway at some point (the focus was getting the rest to work, which actually is quite a lot already).

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OK eigos but I don't have 3D modeling software strong enough to put multiple texture types on a mesh. I only use MS3D and Khed and I really don't want to spend a big amount of money and to pirate 3DS max, it's just not secured and I care about the health of my PC. I just recently removed a DNSchanger from my computer... So I'm going to wait for Schmackbolzen viewer and it will be optimized for FL.

Take your time Schmackbolzen.

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I'm cheering for you over here, this project looks very challenging but also looks like a significant graphical upgrade.

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Quote:

Schmackbolzen wrote:
So here are two videos of the current state after some parameter tuning:
http://www.flnu.net/downloads/fl2901_2.mp4
http://www.flnu.net/downloads/fl2901_3.mp4

Most of the bugs are (currently) gone and only small ones are left. Fullscreen is working (although I needed a workaround and will have to revise that later).

What's left are some tools I need to write and of course polishing. After that I need to decide if I add some more stuff or directly release a first version for testing (which will be in our mod).


Just catching up on this thread (took a while due to all the off topic lol!!) and wanted to say I was utterly blown away by your latest videos Schmack. Can really see the difference between these and the old ones.

I just can't believe how good that looks!!!

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Thanks, that really motivates me I also still think it looks quite good. I am focusing on finishing the rest of it now. Will still take some time, though.

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Every video just shows massive steps forward, those last two especially. Awesome work !!

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Thanks!

It's been a while and while I did not have that much time here is what I managed to work on:

  • The renderer now uses OpenGL 3.3, so you'll need a DX10 capable graphics card. It basically is a DX10 renderer now. This makes my life a lot easier for certain things.

  • Instead of rendering directly I now save the render calls and reorder them before rendering them myself. This allows for optimizations and also helps me a lot. In fact, this makes much more rendering effects possible now.

  • The renderer now uses instancing when possible. E.g. rendering huge dynamic asteroid fields has now only marginal impact on performance (if your graphics card is fast enough). Before you would hit a CPU limit pretty fast.

  • The lighting system from FL has been replaced and I now use (for the moment) point lights for the stars instead the weird directional light for each rendered model FL uses normally.

  • I implemented a somewhat "intelligent" vertex and index data cache as FL has a weird way of rendering certain things. This reduces the data which gets uploaded to the graphics card for each frame and thus helps with the frame rate a lot.

  • Some other things I probably forgot to mention



Here is a video with a light scattering effect in a nebula:
http://www.flnu.net/downloads/fl1208.mp4

Shadows are currently disabled as this is the next thing which gets reworked.

Posted on: 2018/8/12 20:29
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