Graphics Improvements

[gameboy]

@aeonios  My friend, I used your latest document, and I found a problem that still exists. I uploaded the screenshots. 

 

[aeonios]

1 minute ago, gameboy said:

@aeonios  My friend, I used your latest document, and I found a problem that still exists. I uploaded the screenshots. 

 

That's not a problem and I can't fix it. Try placing a tower and it should be more obvious. Or try looking at your own shadow under any light.

[gameboy]

@aeonios We seem to have lost something. 

[aeonios]

1 minute ago, gameboy said:

@aeonios We seem to have lost something. 

There is literally nothing that I can do about that.

[vladislavbelov]

5 minutes ago, gameboy said:

@aeonios We seem to have lost something. 

I already mentioned it (as wraitii too), that the effect is too blurry and unrealistic, and the shadow looks like a low quality. So it doesn't fit in our environment, until we have a weather settings. Or it should be decreased.

[Stan`]

Maybe it could be a bit sharper but I don't thinkit's too blurry

[gameboy]

@vladislavbelovYes, we need a weather function. Will I get this function in the near future? 

@aeonios Thank you very much, my friend, you have brought us a brand-new shadow function. It is really great. 

[vladislavbelov]

13 minutes ago, stanislas69 said:

Maybe it could be a bit sharper but I don't thinkit's too blurry

It loses details. Example, even on the bigger distance you may see more details:

[gameboy]

@vladislavbelov What would you do to change these problems? Do you have a good solution?

[vladislavbelov]

14 minutes ago, gameboy said:

@vladislavbelov What would you do to change these problems? Do you have a good solution?

As I said, add weather or decrease the current level of the penumbra effect.

[gameboy]

@vladislavbelov Will you implement this function in the near future? I think that day to night and sunrise and sunset alternately, thunder and rain. 

[ffffffff]

make 90-60-90 textures graphics curves filter and we are done here

[gameboy]

@ffffffff Can you tell us when the production will start? When will we see it?

[ffffffff]

10 hours ago, gameboy said:

@ffffffff Can you tell us when the production will start? When will we see it?

Look outside girls

[gameboy]

15 hours ago, ffffffff said:

make 90-60-90 textures graphics curves filter and we are done here 

@ffffffff When will you do it? 

[ffffffff]

(00:49:32) fpre: game boy ask me when i make 90-60-90 curve filter
(00:49:33) fpre: lol
(00:49:36) fpre: that idiot
(00:49:50) Stan`: that's gameboy
(00:49:54) fpre:
(00:50:04) Stan`: he is a bug alram
(00:50:08) Stan`: *alarm
(00:50:10) fpre: XD

[ffffffff]

@stanislas69 dont hide my nice posts without reason.

give it hidden to me (reason)

i dont get any notification for my message hidden

nor get gameboy my nice message

he is our friend

[Stan`]

@aeonios Any chance you could investigate the weird glitching issue we have on parallax maps on buildings such as the Iberian wonder ?

[aeonios]

5 hours ago, stanislas69 said:

@aeonios Any chance you could investigate the weird glitching issue we have on parallax maps on buildings such as the Iberian wonder ?

Eh, I'll tell you what the issue is. This is not how parallax mapping works. Parallax mapping is a displacement mapping technique typically using a 16bit gray heightmap and normals are implicitly derived. Trying to derive position from normals is backwards and wrong. It also causes severe sparkling/aliasing artifacts on cretan palm. If you try to add parallax to senegal date (which uses the same textures as cretan) you get the same issues.

[gameboy]

@aeonios  Will you continue to optimize your patch? My friend。 

https://code.wildfiregames.com/D1486

Edited June 8, 2018 by gameboy

[Stan`]

6 hours ago, aeonios said:

Eh, I'll tell you what the issue is. This is not how parallax mapping works. Parallax mapping is a displacement mapping technique typically using a 16bit gray heightmap and normals are implicitly derived. Trying to derive position from normals is backwards and wrong. It also causes severe sparkling/aliasing artifacts on cretan palm. If you try to add parallax to senegal date (which uses the same textures as cretan) you get the same issues.

But it's using alpha as that value. So it's basically the same as setting the height map as the alpha channel mask right ?