Re: Effects showroom!

It is.

“Magnificent!”

Nice idea, wouldn’t call them god rays though, just look like really bad shadows.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

Actually I think it is a result of the post processing. Could be a filter or smth. For instance a simple unsharp masking filter will result in a much sharper image but also create such noise. Some games use it to improve FXAA results. There are nearly unlimited ways to render stuff, so no real conclusion from me.

No way you’re getting away with that one FF, it’s your universe so I’m asking you to change the laws! Gimme some specularity innit

Sizer, Timmy51m, wasabitoy: I have deleted your posts, please keep on-topic and don’t be rude.

Edit: And again Timmy51m, consider it an official warning this time. Please take it seriously or next time you could be taking a break from posting.

Sorry Alex, don’t take it personally, but if you want to ban me for having a bit of fun, do it. All you’ll succeed in doing is to convince me that I don’t belong in this community. Best wishes to you all in life

Just stupid effect

Just to comment on the new FW picture: I know those light types as volumetric lights and it looked precisely as one would expect it to (unless i’ve missed a corner where there is some glitch). Specularity, too, must not be on this image, since the starship is backlit. Every possible angle that could give a light spec on its surface is avoided in this shot resulting in it being pretty dark as most things should be that you would expect to encounter in space.

@Helloween: What effect?

Skotty. wrote:
@Helloween: What effect?

2 lightsources at shipyards, one at the station and one at the tadelane and one from the sun