Decal-based shadows work better than I expected, it looses that effect of being just a quad below the characters, etc: In this case it’s quite hard to make out, except when stuff is moving… Here’s an old screenshot for comparison: If you zoom on the shadow you can see the difference… It’s much more noticeable […]
Now I got plasma burns (on some weapons, not all). It still has some error, there are gaps in the stream for some reason, probably something wrong with the collision detection, but I’ll look into it when I work on the raycasting optimization… Now it’s time to look at the possibility of using the decals […]
After a nasty fight (brain was slow today!), got the bullet holes up and running in the game! Also added a small camera shake with the shots, to lend some force to the weapon… Next, plasma burns! Now listening to “Torn” by “Evergrey”
Finished the refactoring (or most of it, probably still missing some stuff, but I’ll correct it as I do another playthrough of the game), and now decals work much better! There’s still some stuff that’s rendered wrong (for example, coplanar alpha objects with decals, like an explosion on the ceiling of the pirate lair), but […]
Tomorrow I’ll probably be done with the refactoring of the new rendering pipeline… With this one I’m getting way more control over the whole rendering system, which will help me get the decals working properly… Then I can move to more interesting (and visual) stuff! Now listening to “The Classical Conspiracy” by “Epica”
Stage 1 of the refactoring is done… It just replicates what was already working: The only difference is internally… I create a scene graph and render that, instead of iterating all the objects… And even that is not completely done, since the elements of the scene graph are most of the time just a pointer […]
Yep, that’s what I’m doing… It will be a bit painful and I’ll get a lot of bugs in the process, but I think it’s the best thing at this moment… Currently, the rendering is working in a per-pass/per-object basis… So, first we get the solid pass, iterate objects, render all of them (and they […]
Unfortunately, my initial idea that screen-space decals was some sort of magic bullet was completely wrong… They work great a lot of the time, easy to implement, fast… but (there’s always a but) they have some small details which break it down… The issue I talked about yesterday was mostly solved with the stencil buffer: […]
Well… Just finished implementing decals… It went better than expected, since I’ve never tried implementing screen-space decals before… The main difficulty of screen-space decals is the occlusion. Most of the code is related to this, and mine is working great: One problem I’m already seeing is the fact that the way the decal maps removes […]
One of the effects I would like to use extensively in the game is “decals”… A decal is just a kind of painting you put on top of the geometry. Decals used to be done by intersecting the world geometry with the decal shape and drawing those polygons, but since I now have the normal/depth […]