shadmar Posted July 6, 2012 Author Posted July 6, 2012 You can do cubemap reflection already, (cubemap blend). Refraction, depends what you want, softness controls the amount of refraction, the normalmap controls the amount of refraction distortion. Quote HP Omen - 16GB - i7 - Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
Michael Betke Posted July 6, 2012 Posted July 6, 2012 Thanks for the update. I made a new wavemap for it which is more smooth and not so rippled.More a matter of taste. One small wish: Is it possible to let the foam scroll a bit because if a wave raises and lowers the foam always appears at the same place again so it looks a bit static. Quote Pure3d Visualizations Germany - digital essences AAA 3D Model Shop specialized on nature and environments
Pixel Perfect Posted July 6, 2012 Posted July 6, 2012 That is looking very nice Michael. The foam looks photo realistic now and I like the new wavemap. I feel a little sorry for shadmar .... it's not so much he's created a monster he can't control so much as he's created a monster everyone else wants to control I feel by the time this process is complete the water's going to splash out of the screen and soak me Quote Intel Core i5 2.66 GHz, Asus P7P55D, 8Gb DDR3 RAM, GTX460 1Gb DDR5, Windows 7 (x64), LE Editor, GMax, 3DWS, UU3D Pro, Texture Maker Pro, Shader Map Pro. Development language: C/C++
Michael Betke Posted July 6, 2012 Posted July 6, 2012 He sorry. Its just I like to do 3D stuff. You guys can make cool code. I can make cool 3D and can go totally overboard with my requests to coders because I have no clue about it. lol 1 Quote Pure3d Visualizations Germany - digital essences AAA 3D Model Shop specialized on nature and environments
Guest Red Ocktober Posted July 6, 2012 Posted July 6, 2012 right now i'm just doing mockups with the new ocean water to get that "perfect" mix of settings... but so far, it's greatly exceeded my expectations... maybe when i get a lil more skilled with art and scenery composition i'll become more demanding... but for now, for me... this looks just fine... great job Shad... --Mike Quote
Josh Posted July 7, 2012 Posted July 7, 2012 That is looking very nice Michael. The foam looks photo realistic now and I like the new wavemap. I feel a little sorry for shadmar .... it's not so much he's created a monster he can't control so much as he's created a monster everyone else wants to control I feel by the time this process is complete the water's going to splash out of the screen and soak me It's always good to get a second set of eyes on your work. Sometimes when you focus on something so long, you can't see it the same way others do. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without.
Pixel Perfect Posted July 7, 2012 Posted July 7, 2012 It's always good to get a second set of eyes on your work. Sometimes when you focus on something so long, you can't see it the same way others do. That is so true. @Red Nice scene there too Quote Intel Core i5 2.66 GHz, Asus P7P55D, 8Gb DDR3 RAM, GTX460 1Gb DDR5, Windows 7 (x64), LE Editor, GMax, 3DWS, UU3D Pro, Texture Maker Pro, Shader Map Pro. Development language: C/C++
Josh Posted July 7, 2012 Posted July 7, 2012 One easy improvement would be to have a color for shallow water, a color for deep water, and a depth value that controls how it changes. Shallow ocean water is usually turquoise, changing to deep blue as it gets deeper: Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without.
Game Producer Posted July 7, 2012 Posted July 7, 2012 wow... just wow Quote Intel Dual Core 3GHz / GeForce GTS 450 - 1024 MB / Driver ver 267.59 / 8 GB RAM / Win 7 - 64 bit / LE2.50 / BMAX 1.48 game producer blog - Dead Wake Zombie Game powered by Leadwerks Engine Twitter - Unfollow me
shadmar Posted July 8, 2012 Author Posted July 8, 2012 @Michael, Thx for the new texture, looks way better than mine. (can I use your textures in the next update?) Also it sounds like a good idea to scroll it slightly. If we had two normal textures we could switch and blend back and forth every second or so. @pixel don't feel sorry for me, the only way to improve is through constructive feedback. Without some sort of audience it gets boring pretty fast. No challenge then @Josh, I like the idea, I have explore that one. But i'm vacating in Denmark for a while so I'll have a look when I get back. I also have some ideas on how to solve tiling. Quote HP Omen - 16GB - i7 - Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
Michael Betke Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 Yes you can use the textures of course. Maybe just mixing your normalmap with mine or flipping one normalmap for motion will save some performance but get the result you have in mind. Quote Pure3d Visualizations Germany - digital essences AAA 3D Model Shop specialized on nature and environments
Canardia Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Cool, now we can have 3D ocean and 3D terrain: Quote ■ Ryzen 9 ■ RX 6800M ■ 16GB ■ XF8 ■ Windows 11 ■ ■ Ultra ■ LE 2.5 ■ 3DWS 5.6 ■ Reaper ■ C/C++ ■ C# ■ Fortran 2008 ■ Story ■ ■ Homepage: https://canardia.com ■
Michael Betke Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Is it voxels? Like in Cryengine? Quote Pure3d Visualizations Germany - digital essences AAA 3D Model Shop specialized on nature and environments
Canardia Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 No, they are simple meshes made with Sculptris. Now I also tested terrain texturing and painting, and it's amazingly easy also to do, and you have infinite "terrain layers". The different terrain meshes melt quite nicely together, because sculptis uses very balanced triangle distribution, while leaving the polycount pretty low too: Interesting next would be to make some sculpted water object Quote ■ Ryzen 9 ■ RX 6800M ■ 16GB ■ XF8 ■ Windows 11 ■ ■ Ultra ■ LE 2.5 ■ 3DWS 5.6 ■ Reaper ■ C/C++ ■ C# ■ Fortran 2008 ■ Story ■ ■ Homepage: https://canardia.com ■
Canardia Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Texturing is really fun in Sculptris, because you can seamlessly rotate, scale and smear the texture, and also recolor it on top. I think this a good proof of concept that sculpted terrains work quite well, and bring more powerful features than 2D heightmap terrains. On top of that I think sculpted terrains even render faster, because you can occlude parts of the terrain by using seperate models: Quote ■ Ryzen 9 ■ RX 6800M ■ 16GB ■ XF8 ■ Windows 11 ■ ■ Ultra ■ LE 2.5 ■ 3DWS 5.6 ■ Reaper ■ C/C++ ■ C# ■ Fortran 2008 ■ Story ■ ■ Homepage: https://canardia.com ■
Benton Posted July 11, 2012 Posted July 11, 2012 The only thing you might need to do is cut them into chunks so you can so some LOD'ing Quote Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, 16 gigs ram, 3.30GHz Quad Core, GeForce GTX 460 one gig, Leadwerks 2.5, Blender 2.62, Photoshop CS3, UU3D
Canardia Posted July 11, 2012 Posted July 11, 2012 Yes, chunking seems to be important for mesh terrains. Damn, I knew Josh would delete my posts, because he thinks it's "derailing". I was aware of that, and tried to make an Article (=User Tutorial) about mesh terrains, but the damn IPboard software is always buggy somewhere. I noticed that with a single terrain mesh, the 4096 res is still not high enough, so one should use smaller terrain chunks, and maybe one global flat ground to guide the composition. EDIT: Hmm, I think IPBoard had some rollback, because also status messages were deleted. Quote ■ Ryzen 9 ■ RX 6800M ■ 16GB ■ XF8 ■ Windows 11 ■ ■ Ultra ■ LE 2.5 ■ 3DWS 5.6 ■ Reaper ■ C/C++ ■ C# ■ Fortran 2008 ■ Story ■ ■ Homepage: https://canardia.com ■
shadmar Posted July 14, 2012 Author Posted July 14, 2012 Seamless 1 Quote HP Omen - 16GB - i7 - Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
Pixel Perfect Posted July 14, 2012 Posted July 14, 2012 It just keeps on getting better Quote Intel Core i5 2.66 GHz, Asus P7P55D, 8Gb DDR3 RAM, GTX460 1Gb DDR5, Windows 7 (x64), LE Editor, GMax, 3DWS, UU3D Pro, Texture Maker Pro, Shader Map Pro. Development language: C/C++
Guest Red Ocktober Posted July 14, 2012 Posted July 14, 2012 hey... what's that i'm looking at!! what's seamless!! did you do something new!!?? --Mike Quote
shadmar Posted July 14, 2012 Author Posted July 14, 2012 You're looking at two ocean patch tiles with no visible seam. Quote HP Omen - 16GB - i7 - Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
Guest Red Ocktober Posted July 14, 2012 Posted July 14, 2012 something new? or careful positioning... i can't seem to get mine to mesh so cleanly... --Mike Quote
shadmar Posted July 14, 2012 Author Posted July 14, 2012 Using a vertex texture to force tiling to line up. Havent uploaded the new version yet. Quote HP Omen - 16GB - i7 - Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
Guest Red Ocktober Posted July 14, 2012 Posted July 14, 2012 ahhh haaaaa!!!! looks great... --Mike Quote
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