New Renderer (OpenGL 3.3)

I think that is because the reflective colour was wrongly calculated. Fixed it in the screens above. Please reevaluate. Also keep in mind that there are two light sources (one orange). Also there is a glitch at the storage tank which has to do with the tbn values stored in the model and will be fixed.

I can make another video, but for that I would use the settings you prefer. I also would like to be sure there are no errors left before I do one, since weird looking effects might be mistakes I made and did not yet find

Alright, I have checked the equations again and now they seem to be correct.

Here is a video with rather smooth settings and a little bit tuned down specular intensity:
Link

Since as mentioned there is no material system yet, every texture has the same setting. Also I don’t know whether I will keep this lighting model or choose another or even make it selectable per texture etc.

Edit:
Here is one with even less specular intensity: Link

But I think it is better when I do more research before posting endless screenshots and videos. At least I think I do understand the problem now. Maybe it also is a matter of taste.

I can, but I am not sure what you want to see there? You’ll get me flying wild behind some ships

Here is a video with a PBR based lighting model: Link

I also think it is better, but maybe too weak. One of the next tasks is to calculate a better reflective base colour, so that the “oil effect” is reduced and you can tune the reflections up a little. I have had some results, but I am not there yet.

In the meantime I have implemented gamma correction and now the lighting calculations should correctly take place in linear space. I think it looks much better (you can see it everywhere in the game): Link

Thanks! Here is a video with settings for the reflections Skotty and I like: Link

Probably still not optimal, but I will leave it by that for now, since I plan to leave the settings to the people who configure the materials (which hopefully will not be me ;)).

Those have been there all the time. The problem is with the tbn data in the models (I had written it in one of my last post somewhere :)) There is a reason I said development will still take time I need to port the algorithm to correctly generate them, because I only have c++ code for now, but the UTF editor is c#. I only added a quick fix to correct much worse lighting problems like this:

It is the same cause, trust me Just wait until I fixed it and then you can nag if you see still see problems

@Helloween: Sry, forgot to answer

I can make a video when everything works and I think I have a more final version. I don’t know how much will still change. The game now looks again completely different than before a week ago and it is starting to look way better than I was expecting. But I can guarantee you, that the atmosphere has changed a lot. For example this is currently the station at planet Manhattan:

Fort Bush also looks quite nice:

Thanks for the kind words!

I don’t think there are hostilities. FF helped me out with some offsets (e.g. shadows would not work otherwise) and all the .sur files of TOW should have been generated with my sur converter (if they did not change it).

My main issue is with the models and textures anyway. There are a few tough cases where the vanilla stuff did not age well. I hope there will be people who are willing to recreate the models and textures, but I am not too optimistic. At least mods can really improve their graphics, if they find the right models. I will probably write a new .cmp converter to make the conversion easier (no promises, but lots of code is already there).