New Renderer (OpenGL 3.3)

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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.

I hope some talented folks offer you that help!

http://www.flnu.net/downloads/fl0807.mp4
I love in this video how the bottom of the station reflects the orange nebula.

I’m a big player the X series games and one of my most fondest memories was the first time I started up X3 Reunion in 2007 and was flying around the Argon home system and was stunned to see the planet and moon reflecting off the metallic space stations and ships! I remember thinking “we’ve entered a new era of realistic looking space games… if only Freelancer had come out in this era”. Schmackbolzen’s mod is making that dream a reality!

I noticed it on the ku battleship vid too! Love it too!

This is making me want to get back into Freelancer modding. I didn’t think anything could do that. Very good work all around, Schmack.

Any progress or news?

Looks even better! I’d like to get my hands on that renderer as soon as possible!~

Question: the heightmaps, are you putting them into the MAT or are they separate in a folder somewhere? How do you reference them for the renderer to work with it?