New Renderer (OpenGL 3.3)

Wow nice! It would be an awesome thing to make vector format be readable by FL. Like that it would be saved as the graphics would never be outdated and there should be only diffuse maps to change. I’m waiting your mod so hard!

And did you changed specularity for each texture or for each model and what does it make if you totally remove specularity from the texture or model? Just to see if Nomad ships and stations and also asteroid could use heightmaps without having a metallic look.

Nice renders! They are really beautiful. Shadows? Are you kidding? No? Or I don’t remember well? @_@

Thanks for the explanations . It’s nice to see that things become nicer and nicer over the time.

How did you implement these “sliders” to change metallic look, will it be editable ingame, via utfeditor or with a third party software.

Roughness map?… =_= I thought I knew every thing about rendering maps but here, it’s totally new! Thanks to have allowed us to have a better knowledge in computer rendering.

Ok! I have take a short look at your link, that was exactly what I thought about PBR. I already watched a podcast on Youtube about this were they said that each real life material has its virtual clone made by technicians, engineers and artists. Nice to see that finally asteroid, planets and Nomad structures will benefit of all modern techniques and carry some consistency, the game would become really photorealistic.

As for maths, give me a link, please? I could understand it.

I know that there is not only ONE technique. you have not to use every maps because if you already use height maps to make the relief what is the need to use bump and normal maps? Height maps are far more powerful than bump and nrm maps! Are height maps more resource demanding than bump or nrm maps?

Thanks for creating the material viewer, it will be very useful for us.

I was talking about model shadows where you can see the shadow of your [ship] at Kusari Battleship hull, it’s quite nice, I like it!

Edit : Is there a way to have emissive maps, it could improve lighting.

Edited last post.

It’s more physic than maths. It looks like my CPGE cours (Cours Préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles to become an engineer via an engineer school not via a master, if I had 1 or 2 years more to learn what I had to learn it should have been better but I can’t redo the past…:( ) but here it’s optic and I like this so it shouldn’t be too hard to read.

I know the difference between bump and nrm, I already noticed that there is some misconception about these terms.
I walked around textures in games DS1 and Nexus TJI and every time alpha channel was used for a specific map and I tried to extract those alpha channel and that was not so difficult to do via Paint.net and its channel mixer.
So we can use every maps for a different task that they were intended to be used. e.g. in DS1 they use the “normal map” to make alter color appearance.

I’ve an idea! Mix nrm and height maps in one file and use the alpha channel to mix them, like this it should drastically reduce the files number and also reduce the amount of space used by the wrapper.

I’ve begun to read the cours about light.

To summary the more homogeneous in refraction a medium is, the less it scatter. Also the more complex light transmission is, the more absorption is. (a+jb : 0+100j = 100 (cos90° + j sin90°) = 100 (cos(pi/2) + j sin(pi/2)) = full absorbtion of a wavlenght?) There is also integrals to do with an interval from 400 to 700 nm I think.
The less rough a surface is, the more it’s reflective and the more rough a surface is, the less it’s reflective and it become as dull as diffuse map.

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We should talk about it via PM, it could be better and it would not flood the topic. If I did not understand something it would be better to do it.

I haven’t finished to read your documents so I should have been wrong with some concepts.

Ah! Understood! Good luck! The fight will be so long that brains will go on fire!

Just wanted to say your work is truly incredible… been drooling over all your videos and pictures. Amazing stuff!

I’m also very curious to see what your rendering effects have done to interior locations eg the various moody space & planet bars? When I think of the bars & shops on the Bretonia, Rheinland & Kusari homeworlds there’s lots of interesting light sources and a few moving objects creating all sorts of interesting light & shadow effect opportunities. Plus you’re a lot closer to the low res textures so FL really shows it’s age here…

Yep, awesome work.
I will keep an eye on this

I bet to differ, every character looking like metal would be quite entertaining and totally worth it

They are gonna go like sorta boozed metal music fans. (Just hearing Alestorm at the same time writing this post XD) Epic joke with epic music!
:pint:
More seriously, like Bolt, I would like to see this. It would be kinda fun!

haha I see. Oh well at least the robot planet bar will look great

Yep… indeed! And I have some ideas how making HD textures, heightmaps and normal maps of the planets. But it is a quite long task to do, so I must find some peoples who want to take an eye on this project. For me, the best way is to delegate the work between 3 or 4 people, where I’m one of them. I’ve already thought about how to make height using GIMP. And we have not to forget that some room shadows were insert on the texture, so we should take care about that. Or else rework lighting in the rooms via thn and the wrapper.