Video: Advanced water rendering (and all the other recent rendering tweaks)

[begla]

This video shows all my recent rendering additions, changes and tweaks in action (with a minor focus on the new water rendering technique that is available in the "Insane" graphics quality mode).

• Water rendering with total reflection, refraction, fresnel and vertex displacement using multiple octaves of sine/cosine (approximation) waves
• SSAO
• Volumetric light scattering
• Outline shader (using a Sobel edge detector)
• (Camera) Motion blur
• Depth of field (currently only blurred in the distance)
• HDR rendering with dynamic eye adaption
• HDR based blooming
• (Shiny new sky renderings for days and nights)

 

[Skaldarnar]

Looks great! And the sky is much better now

But the water does not look as great as in the video for me, I've got this noise/flickering you can see on the screenshot. And not warnings/errors regarding any shaders...

 

[begla]

Looks great! And the sky is much better now

But the water does not look as great as in the video for me, I've got this noise/flickering you can see on the screenshot. And not warnings/errors regarding any shaders...

Hum. Strange... Mind posting some infos on your specs? Or point me where you might have posted them before?

 

[Skaldarnar]

Specs below, was playing on "Insane" without any problems/lags...

Phenom II X2 550 BE @ 3,1 GHz
Radeon 6870
4 GB Ram
Win 7

 

[begla]

Looks more or less like some floating point errors once again. Will dig into it if I find the time and let you know.

 

[ordnael]

Yo begla!

I'm getting the same...

INTEL I5 3210M
Radeon 7730 - 2GB - OPENGL 4.2
6 GB
Win 7

The lag is low than last build, what you do?

 

[begla]

This issue should be less obvious in the most recent dev. build. Feedback is very much appreciated!

 

[Skaldarnar]

Much better, begla, the flickering is gone Great work

And the launcher does its job quite well

Edit: We still need a solution for water not on inital ocean/sea level. Using the heightmap terrain generator, the water is not lit properly. And user placed water on different leves suffer the same problem.

 

[begla]

Will fix that.

 

[Skaldarnar]

Why are there no like buttons

 

[Cervator]

The different format used by Announcements/Events breaks some stuff. Yet I could swear I found a way in the past to view it as a normal thread. Unsure how to fix, need a webmaster