Re: Effects showroom!

God rays, also called crepuscular rays. Sunlight which appear like visible rays when seen around objects, usually due to scattering from small particulate matter in the air.

Example of crepuscular rays:

I think the comparison is fairly obvious, and that shadows have nothing to do with them.

Timmy51m

Now they look like god rays, whatever that is in sizers screen shot looks like trails of soot extending from every asteroid and somehow visible through the ships skin too. Looks the complete opposite of your picture, looks like shadows being cast, not light. Got any other screen grabs that make it look better?

Sizer

We’re in space, timmy, the effect is reversed. Godrays on earth are the light scattered through particles in openings of space. In space, there is more opening than there is obscuring. Therefore, the effect is inversed - darkness appears to be the primary rays, because the light scattered is large. There are a few minor casting errors, as this is a new feature, but for the most part, it is accurate.

LancerSolurus

Looked pretty close to accurate to me. I’ve seen it IRL so I know what it looks like (we get fog often around here). The billboard asteroids aren’t casting it so that throws it off a little.

Hrimthur

If i allow say. This Effect fits more to turbid water and not realy in the empty space. But still looks good for the Freelancer Engine.

Timmy51m

Sizer wrote:
We’re in space, timmy, the effect is reversed. Godrays on earth are the light scattered through particles in openings of space. In space, there is more opening than there is obscuring. Therefore, the effect is inversed - darkness appears to be the primary rays, because the light scattered is large. There are a few minor casting errors, as this is a new feature, but for the most part, it is accurate.

Yeah, that makes sense, can’t say I like it at the moment though, sorry! Prob cool in a nebula, but think that would just piss me off if it’s there all of the time. Best reserve final thoughts on it until I’ve had a chance to finally do some imp blasting innit

I’m looking at it again, why’s there no specularity on the ship? The ship looks awful, it’s covered in artifacts, from the game or jpeg?

Skotty

Timmy51m wrote:

The ship looks awful, it’s covered in artifacts, from the game or jpeg?

Thats the way they render shadows. A lot of engine use some kind of small particles. If you don’t have enough of them (which uses more resources) you have this strange noise.

Timmy51m

So my original interpretation of seeing dirty sooty shadows cast as opposed to god rays was accurate then I guess, should we call this ‘dirty rays’ instead lol