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

begla

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This video shows all my recent rendering additions, changes and tweaks in action (with a minor :oops: 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

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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...
 

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begla

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Skaldarnar

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Much better, begla, the flickering is gone :) Great work ;)

And the launcher does its job quite well :D

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.
 

Cervator

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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 :D
 
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