New Renderer (OpenGL 3.3)
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Watching, but busy lately. Liked the ambient noises out there in the galaxy.
Try this one:
It’s got a part 2:
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On the first one Earth sounds like guinea pigs asking for some food.
On the second one Neutron star collision remind me of cartoon SFX or Dihydrogen combustion.
LOL
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I was interested if some of that stellar noise
isn’t the cosmic version of Satellite Radio
running down the top ten from Planet X.
If that’s “The Music of the Spheres” then
I’ll stick with good ol’ Terran Rock and Roll.And what do THEY think of all the radio noise
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Guys it’s been fun, but I need to remind you that posting in my topic costs you 10€ for every off topic post. I am kind enough to grant you the ones up to now for free, but from now on it’s going to be expensive
Btw.: I have to turn in the thesis next Friday so I’ll start working on the wrapper after that again.
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10€ ! Are you kidding ? I would pay more ! Yes I like to be wrapped in fur !
(it doesn’t seem to be the truth though…)I was waiting for this kind of news, I hope you will get great results. Last time to work on it.
Come back to the topic. I would so much like to have the possibility to test the texture I do directly into the wrapper. Or someone has other alternative to xNormal ? Because I can’t make occlusion map working.
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Or someone has other alternative to xNormal ? Because I can’t make occlusion map working.
Try using Sketchfab, its an online model upload & viewing service.
Here is one of my models: https://sketchfab.com/models/da1ffd1deff543a3a94403f54557df6b -
I have asked Skotty and he is going to help me to extract my renderer from the engine we are working on since ages to build an external model preview. It currently renders the FL models so that we have something to work with. I only need to add the normal and parallax mapping stuff, but that is needed anyway at some point (the focus was getting the rest to work, which actually is quite a lot already).
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OK eigos but I don’t have 3D modeling software strong enough to put multiple texture types on a mesh. I only use MS3D and Khed and I really don’t want to spend a big amount of money and to pirate 3DS max, it’s just not secured and I care about the health of my PC. I just recently removed a DNSchanger from my computer… So I’m going to wait for Schmackbolzen viewer and it will be optimized for FL.
Take your time Schmackbolzen.
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Schmackbolzen wrote:
So here are two videos of the current state after some parameter tuning:
http://www.flnu.net/downloads/fl2901_2.mp4
http://www.flnu.net/downloads/fl2901_3.mp4Most of the bugs are (currently) gone and only small ones are left. Fullscreen is working (although I needed a workaround and will have to revise that later).
What’s left are some tools I need to write and of course polishing. After that I need to decide if I add some more stuff or directly release a first version for testing (which will be in our mod).
Just catching up on this thread (took a while due to all the off topic lol!!) and wanted to say I was utterly blown away by your latest videos Schmack. Can really see the difference between these and the old ones.
I just can’t believe how good that looks!!!
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Thanks, that really motivates me
I also still think it looks quite good. I am focusing on finishing the rest of it now. Will still take some time, though. -
Thanks!
It’s been a while and while I did not have that much time here is what I managed to work on:
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The renderer now uses OpenGL 3.3, so you’ll need a DX10 capable graphics card. It basically is a DX10 renderer now. This makes my life a lot easier for certain things.
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Instead of rendering directly I now save the render calls and reorder them before rendering them myself. This allows for optimizations and also helps me a lot. In fact, this makes much more rendering effects possible now.
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The renderer now uses instancing when possible. E.g. rendering huge dynamic asteroid fields has now only marginal impact on performance (if your graphics card is fast enough). Before you would hit a CPU limit pretty fast.
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The lighting system from FL has been replaced and I now use (for the moment) point lights for the stars instead the weird directional light for each rendered model FL uses normally.
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I implemented a somewhat “intelligent” vertex and index data cache as FL has a weird way of rendering certain things. This reduces the data which gets uploaded to the graphics card for each frame and thus helps with the frame rate a lot.
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Some other things I probably forgot to mention
Here is a video with a light scattering effect in a nebula:
http://www.flnu.net/downloads/fl1208.mp4Shadows are currently disabled as this is the next thing which gets reworked.
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Freelancer will now be subtitled :
“Trent in Wonderland” as it is so marvelous.
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Hehe, yes! I actually was surprised myself how good they look. Did not expect that. I only did some minor tweaks to the original implementation.
In the meantime I also spent some time on solving the upscaling problem of the textures. I changed the NN layers to be in my opinion better suited for upscaling and experimented with different postprocessing filters. I now have a pipeline which seems to work for all images. The results are below. I am very satisfied with the image quality. The colours have shifted slightly, because the goal was also to reduce the errors the DXT compression caused.
Some of the original small FL textures are posted a few pages back if you want to compare them.
So what do you guys think?
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Compared it with the previous examples and… Wow ! Looks very good man !
Well done @Schmackbolzen 
THIS is the way it´s supposed to look like ! At least imho…
Greetings
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Today I finished a bretonian texture, it’s b_player02_256. It’s a diffuse map + a normal map + a specular map. What do you think ?
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@J.R.: Thanks! I thinks so too, but still am experimenting with other networks to get it more detailed. Some progress has been made…
@Blake00: Hehe, then I have reached my goal
@Freestalker.fr: It is a way to start, but I think you could add some more fine details. Also the colour palette is a little bit boring but that can be improved easily. The white reflections look more like plastic, maybe you can change that for a start. Or is this just phong lighting? There are also some texture mapping problems where it gets blurred, but I think you noticed that. Can you send me your model along with the maps so that I can integrate loading them into the shaders of the wrapper?
Btw. I started a model viewer for your preview but realized my code can not load the TBN data for the normal maps etc, yet. I need the time available for the wrapper, so it has to wait.
In the meantime I fixed problems which prevented the wrapper running on Intel and Nvidia cards. I still have a weird error which causes FL to crash on undocking in nebulas/asteroid fields and which happens only on a Nvidia card. There are still some other issues, which might be related. But I am getting there
