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  • How is the terrain generated in Commandos and Commandos game clones/look-alikes?

    - by teodron
    The Commandos series of games and its similar western counterpart, Desperados, use a mix of 2D and 3D elements to achieve a very pleasing and immersive atmosphere. Apart from the concept that alone made the series a best-seller, the graphics eye-candy was also a much appreciated asset of that game. I was very curious on what was the technique used to model and adorn the realistic terrains in those titles? Below are some screenshots that could be relevant as a reference for whomever has a candidate answer: The tiny details and patternless distribution of ornamental textures make me think that these terrains were not generated using a standard heightmap-blendmap method.

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  • Is there a way to prevent users from adjusting their gamma correction to 'cheat' their way out of a 'dark' area?

    - by Athix
    In almost every game I've come across that includes a dark situation designed to change the way a user interacts with the environment, there are always some players who turn up their monitor's gamma correction in order to negate the desired effect. Is there a way to prevent users from adjusting their gamma correction to 'cheat' their way out of a challenge? (the darkness) I'd imagine if you could reliably retrieve the current gamma correction of the user's monitor, you could use that to more or less prevent the advantage it would otherwise grant without causing the normal users any inconvenience.

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  • Deferred contexts and inheriting state from the immediate context

    - by dreijer
    I took my first stab at using deferred contexts in DirectX 11 today. Basically, I created my deferred context using CreateDeferredContext() and then drew a simple triangle strip with it. Early on in my test application, I call OMSetRenderTargets() on the immediate context in order to render to the swap chain's back buffer. Now, after having read the documentation on MSDN about deferred contexts, I assumed that calling ExecuteCommandList() on the immediate context would execute all of the deferred commands as "an extension" to the commands that had already been executed on the immediate context, i.e. the triangle strip I rendered in the deferred context would be rendered to the swap chain's back buffer. That didn't seem to be the case, however. Instead, I had to manually pull out the immediate context's render target (using OMGetRenderTargets()) and then set it on the deferred context with OMSetRenderTargets(). Am I doing something wrong or is that the way deferred contexts work?

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  • Projective texture and deferred lighting

    - by Vodácek
    In my previous question, I asked whether it is possible to do projective texturing with deferred lighting. Now (more than half a year later) I have a problem with my implementation of the same thing. I am trying to apply this technique in light pass. (my projector doesn't affect albedo). I have this projector View a Projection matrix: Matrix projection = Matrix.CreateOrthographicOffCenter(-halfWidth * Scale, halfWidth * Scale, -halfHeight * Scale, halfHeight * Scale, 1, 100000); Matrix view = Matrix.CreateLookAt(Position, Target, Vector3.Up); Where halfWidth and halfHeight is are half of the texture's width and height, Position is the Projector's position and target is the projector's target. This seems to be ok. I am drawing full screen quad with this shader: float4x4 InvViewProjection; texture2D DepthTexture; texture2D NormalTexture; texture2D ProjectorTexture; float4x4 ProjectorViewProjection; sampler2D depthSampler = sampler_state { texture = <DepthTexture>; minfilter = point; magfilter = point; mipfilter = point; }; sampler2D normalSampler = sampler_state { texture = <NormalTexture>; minfilter = point; magfilter = point; mipfilter = point; }; sampler2D projectorSampler = sampler_state { texture = <ProjectorTexture>; AddressU = Clamp; AddressV = Clamp; }; float viewportWidth; float viewportHeight; // Calculate the 2D screen position of a 3D position float2 postProjToScreen(float4 position) { float2 screenPos = position.xy / position.w; return 0.5f * (float2(screenPos.x, -screenPos.y) + 1); } // Calculate the size of one half of a pixel, to convert // between texels and pixels float2 halfPixel() { return 0.5f / float2(viewportWidth, viewportHeight); } struct VertexShaderInput { float4 Position : POSITION0; }; struct VertexShaderOutput { float4 Position :POSITION0; float4 PositionCopy : TEXCOORD1; }; VertexShaderOutput VertexShaderFunction(VertexShaderInput input) { VertexShaderOutput output; output.Position = input.Position; output.PositionCopy=output.Position; return output; } float4 PixelShaderFunction(VertexShaderOutput input) : COLOR0 { float2 texCoord =postProjToScreen(input.PositionCopy) + halfPixel(); // Extract the depth for this pixel from the depth map float4 depth = tex2D(depthSampler, texCoord); //return float4(depth.r,0,0,1); // Recreate the position with the UV coordinates and depth value float4 position; position.x = texCoord.x * 2 - 1; position.y = (1 - texCoord.y) * 2 - 1; position.z = depth.r; position.w = 1.0f; // Transform position from screen space to world space position = mul(position, InvViewProjection); position.xyz /= position.w; //compute projection float3 projection=tex2D(projectorSampler,postProjToScreen(mul(position,ProjectorViewProjection)) + halfPixel()); return float4(projection,1); } In first part of pixel shader is recovered position from G-buffer (this code I am using in other shaders without any problem) and then is tranformed to projector viewprojection space. Problem is that projection doesn't appear. Here is an image of my situation: The green lines are the rendered projector frustum. Where is my mistake hidden? I am using XNA 4. Thanks for advice and sorry for my English. EDIT: Shader above is working but projection was too small. When I changed the Scale property to a large value (e.g. 100), the projection appears. But when the camera moves toward the projection, the projection expands, as can bee seen on this YouTube video.

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  • relationship between the model and the renderer

    - by acrilige
    I tried to build a simple graphics engine, and faced with this problems: i have a list of models that i need to draw, and object (renderer) that implements IRenderer interface with method DrawObject(Object* obj). Implementation of renderer depends on using graphics library (opengl/directx). 1st question: model should not know nothing about renderer implementation, but in this case where can i hold (cache) information that depends on renderer implementation? For example, if model have this definition: class Model { public: Model(); Vertex* GetVertices() const; private: Vertex* m_vertices; }; what is the best way to cache, for example, vertex buffer of this model for dx11? Hold it in renderer object? 2nd question: what is the best way for model to say renderer HOW it must be rendered (for example with texture, bump mapping, or may be just in one color). I thought it can be done with flags, like this: model-SetRenderOptions(RENDER_TEXTURE | RENDER_BUMPMAPPING | RENDER_LIGHTING); and in Renderer::DrawModel method check for each flag. But looks like it will become uncomfortable with the options count growth...

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  • Fast determination of whether objects are onscreen in 2D

    - by Ben Ezard
    So currently, I have this in each object's renderer's update method: float a = transform.position.x * Main.scale; float b = transform.position.y * Main.scale; float c = Camera.main.transform.position.x * Main.scale; float d = Camera.main.transform.position.y * Main.scale; onscreen = a + width - c > 0 && a - c < GameView.width && b + height - d > 0 && b - d < GameView.height; transform.position is a 2D vector containing the game engine's definition of where the object is - this is then multiplied by Main.scale to translate that coordinate into actual screen space Similarly, Camera.main.transform.position is the in-engine representation of where the main camera is, and this is also multiplied by Main.scale The problem is, as my game is tile-based, thousands of these updates get called every frame, just to determine whether or not each object should be drawn - how can I improve this please?

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  • Perl script rendered in browser as code through symlink - fine when accessed directly

    - by John Dittmar
    I have a Rails 4 app that has some views that post to Perl cgi scripts. The perl scripts are accessed via a symbolic link to a folder called "cgi-bin". When I navigate to a perl script through the symbolic link they are rendered as text instead of executed (ie: localhost:3000/cgi-bin/test.cgi), however when I access them directly they execute without issue (ie. localhost/path/to/cgi-bin/test.cgi). I am using apache2 on os x. In the directory localhost/path/to/ I have an .htaccess file that contains the following: # General Apache options AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI I have the exact same lines in the .htaccess file that I have in localhost:3000/ I have also uncommented the AllowOverride all in httpd.conf. The are no errors in apache's error log. When I access the direct link to test.cgi a new line is appended to apache's access log, when I access the script through the symbolic link (and it is rendered as text), there is no line appended to the access log. Any idea why this error occurs? This setup worked fine in a previous version of rails of OS X, but recently I upgraded to Mavericks and figured I should update the Rails application to v4.0 as well.

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  • How to acheive a smooth 2D lighting effect?

    - by Cyral
    I'm making a tile based game in XNA So currently my lightning looks like this: How can I get it to look like this? Instead of each block having its own tint, it has a smooth overlay. I'm assuming some sort of shader, and to tell it the lighting and blur it some how. But im not an expert with shaders. My current lighting calculates the light, and then passes it to a spritebatch and draws with a color parameter EDIT: No longer uses spritebatch tint, I was testing and now pass parameters to set the light values. But still looking for a way to smooth it

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  • Could someone explain why my world reconstructed from depth position is incorrect?

    - by yuumei
    I am attempting to reconstruct the world position in the fragment shader from a depth texture. I pass in the 8 frustum points in world space and interpolate them across fragments and then interpolate from near to far by the depth: highp float depth = (2.0 * CameraPlanes.x) / (CameraPlanes.y + CameraPlanes.x - texture( depthTexture, textureCoord ).x * (CameraPlanes.y - CameraPlanes.x)); // Reconstruct the world position from the linear depth highp vec3 world = mix( nearWorldPos, farWorldPos, depth ); CameraPlanes.x is the near plane CameraPlanes.y is the far. Assuming that my frustum positions are correct, and my depth looks correct, why is my world position wrong? (My depth texture is of format GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT32F if that matters) Thanks! :D Update: Screenshot of world position http://imgur.com/sSlHd So you can see it looks nearly correct. However as the camera moves, the colours (positions) change, which they shouldnt. I can get this to work, if I do the following: Write this into the depth attachment in the previous pass: gl_FragDepth = gl_FragCoord.z / gl_FragCoord.w / CameraPlanes.y; and then read the depth texture like so: depth = texture( depthTexture, textureCoord ).x However this will kill the hardware z buffer optimizations.

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  • backface culling error

    - by acrilige
    I write simple software renderer. In my pipeline i have stage of backface culling. But looks like it has some error (see picture). I perform culling right after world transformation. (i can't insert picture in post coz i don't have enough points, so i just upload it (cube model): http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/705/bcerror.png/) Vector3F view_dir(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f); std::vector<Triangle> to_remove; for (Triangle &t : m_triangles) { Vector4F e1 = t.v2 - t.v1; Vector4F e2 = t.v3 - t.v1; Vector3F normal( e1.y * e2.z - e1.z * e2.y, e1.z * e2.x - e1.x * e2.z, e1.x * e2.y - e1.y * e2.x ); normal.Normalize(); float dot = Dot(view_dir, normal); if (dot <= 0) to_remove.push_back(t); } for (Triangle& t : to_remove) m_triangles.erase(std::remove(m_triangles.begin(), m_triangles.end(), t), m_triangles.end()); Camera sits in origin and points in screen (RH). What is the reason?

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  • GPU based procedual terrain borders?

    - by OnePie
    I'm working on a game that preferibly should feature a combination of designed and procedually generated terrain where the designer specifies in somewhat detailed terms what type of terrain a given area will have (grasslands, forest etc...) and then a precedual algorithm takes care of the rest. I'm not talking about minecraft style biomoes, but rather the game map for a strategy game. Each 'area' will not take up that much of the screen, and thus be more akin to a tile whose texture is procedually generated. While procedually generating terrain textures on the GPU are not that difficult, the hard part is making the borders between them look good. Currently, the 'tiles' are large enough to be visible (due to memory constraints mainly, we are talking planetary sized textures for a game taking place in space and on a continental ground view with seamless transitions between them) and creating good borders between them with an algorithm that is fast enough to be useful has proven difficult. Sampling the n-surrounding pixels and using the combiened result did not yield very good borders and was fairly slow on the GPU to boot (ca 12ms for me, that is without any lighning or shading and with very simple terrain texture shaders). So are there any practical known methods to solve this problem?

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  • LOD in modern games

    - by Firas Assaad
    I'm currently working on my master's thesis about LOD and mesh simplification, and I've been reading many academic papers and articles about the subject. However, I can't find enough information about how LOD is being used in modern games. I know many games use some sort of dynamic LOD for terrain, but what about elsewhere? Level of Detail for 3D Graphics for example points out that discrete LOD (where artists prepare several models in advance) is widely used because of the performance overhead of continuous LOD. That book was published in 2002 however, and I'm wondering if things are different now. There has been some research in performing dynamic LOD using the geometry shader (this paper for example, with its implementation in ShaderX6), would that be used in a modern game? To summarize, my question is about the state of LOD in modern video games, what algorithms are used and why? In particular, is view dependent continuous simplification used or does the runtime overhead make using discrete models with proper blending and impostors a more attractive solution? If discrete models are used, is an algorithm used (e.g. vertex clustering) to generate them offline, do artists manually create the models, or perhaps a combination of both methods is used?

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  • How can I make a 32 bit render target with a 16 bit alpha channel in DirectX?

    - by J Junker
    I want to create a render target that is 32-bit, with 16 bits each for alpha and luminance. The closest surface formats I can find in the DirectX SDK are: D3DFMT_A8L8 // 16-bit using 8 bits each for alpha and luminance. D3DFMT_G16R16F // 32-bit float format using 16 bits for the red channel and 16 bits for the green channel. But I don't think either of these will work, since D3DFMT_A8L8 doesn't have the precision and D3DFMT_G16R16F doesn't have an alpha channel (I need a separate blend state for alpha). How can I create a render target that allows a separate blend state for luminance and alpha, with 16 bit precision on each channel, that doesn't exceed 32 bits per pixel?

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  • Which isometric angles can be mirrored (and otherwise transformed) for optimization?

    - by Tom
    I am working on a basic isometric game, and am struggling to find the correct mirrors. Mirror can be any form of transform. I have managed to get SE out of SW, by scaling the sprite on X axis by -1. Same applies for NE angle. Something is bugging me, that I should be able to also mirror N to S, but I cannot manage to pull this one off. Am I just too sleepy and trying to do the impossible, or a basic -1 scale on Y axis is not enough? What are the common used mirror table for optimizing 8 angle (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW) isometric sprites?

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  • Assigning a script to a keystroke to toggle touchpad

    - by sodiumnitrate
    Since my default sony vaio shortcuts don't completely work in Ubuntu 12.04, I'd like to assign a script to Fn + F1, which toggles the touchpad on and off, so that the cursor would stop moving while I'm typing. Since I use a mouse and rarely need to use the touchpad, I don't want to use "disable touchpad while writing", which doesn't really seem to work anyway. I figured that using a script with the following command (this works, but I have to open up a terminal each time): xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 0 I have two problems at this point. One is that I don't know how to write this script so that it will toggle it off if it is on, and on if it is off. I know I should use an if statement but I don't know what value I should be checking to see if it is on or off. The second one is that I am having problems creating a new shortcut. I use System Settings - Keyboard - Shortcuts. I tried to add, to custom shortcuts, a new one by clicking the '+' sign. I named it Toggle Touchpad, and added the path to the executable script with the line above, by typing /home/irem/.toggletouchpad I have made it an executable with chmod. The problem is that when I click apply, and then click back on it to define the keystroke, it re-opens the dialogue. I cannot define new keys. (It says disabled on the right column of the entry). I have also tried xbindkeys, which almost constantly crashes. I'd prefer the system settings, if I can set the shortcut. I'd appreciate if anyone can help. Thanks.

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  • OpenGL directional light creating black spots

    - by AnonymousDeveloper
    I probably ought to start by saying that I suspect the problem is that one of my vectors is not in the correct "space", but I don't know for sure. I am having a strange problem with a directional light. When I move the camera away from (0.0, 0.0, 0.0) it creates tiny black spots that grow larger as the distance increases. I apologize ahead of time for the length of the code. Vertex shader: #version 410 core in vec3 vf_normal; in vec3 vf_bitangent; in vec3 vf_tangent; in vec2 vf_textureCoordinates; in vec3 vf_vertex; out vec3 tc_normal; out vec3 tc_bitangent; out vec3 tc_tangent; out vec2 tc_textureCoordinates; out vec3 tc_vertex; uniform mat3 vf_m_normal; uniform mat4 vf_m_model; uniform mat4 vf_m_mvp; uniform mat4 vf_m_projection; uniform mat4 vf_m_view; uniform float vf_te_inner; uniform float vf_te_outer; void main() { tc_normal = vf_normal; tc_bitangent = vf_bitangent; tc_tangent = vf_tangent; tc_textureCoordinates = vf_textureCoordinates; tc_vertex = vf_vertex; gl_Position = vf_m_mvp * vec4(vf_vertex, 1.0); } Tessellation Control shader: #version 410 core layout (vertices = 3) out; in vec3 tc_normal[]; in vec3 tc_bitangent[]; in vec3 tc_tangent[]; in vec2 tc_textureCoordinates[]; in vec3 tc_vertex[]; out vec3 te_normal[]; out vec3 te_bitangent[]; out vec3 te_tangent[]; out vec2 te_textureCoordinates[]; out vec3 te_vertex[]; uniform float vf_te_inner; uniform float vf_te_outer; uniform vec4 vf_l_color; uniform vec3 vf_l_position; uniform mat4 vf_m_depthBias; uniform mat4 vf_m_model; uniform mat4 vf_m_mvp; uniform mat4 vf_m_projection; uniform mat4 vf_m_view; uniform sampler2D vf_t_diffuse; uniform sampler2D vf_t_normal; uniform sampler2DShadow vf_t_shadow; uniform sampler2D vf_t_specular; #define ID gl_InvocationID float getTessLevelInner(float distance0, float distance1) { float avgDistance = (distance0 + distance1) / 2.0; return clamp((vf_te_inner - avgDistance), 1.0, vf_te_inner); } float getTessLevelOuter(float distance0, float distance1) { float avgDistance = (distance0 + distance1) / 2.0; return clamp((vf_te_outer - avgDistance), 1.0, vf_te_outer); } void main() { te_normal[gl_InvocationID] = tc_normal[gl_InvocationID]; te_bitangent[gl_InvocationID] = tc_bitangent[gl_InvocationID]; te_tangent[gl_InvocationID] = tc_tangent[gl_InvocationID]; te_textureCoordinates[gl_InvocationID] = tc_textureCoordinates[gl_InvocationID]; te_vertex[gl_InvocationID] = tc_vertex[gl_InvocationID]; float eyeToVertexDistance0 = distance(vec3(0.0), vec4(vf_m_view * vec4(tc_vertex[0], 1.0)).xyz); float eyeToVertexDistance1 = distance(vec3(0.0), vec4(vf_m_view * vec4(tc_vertex[1], 1.0)).xyz); float eyeToVertexDistance2 = distance(vec3(0.0), vec4(vf_m_view * vec4(tc_vertex[2], 1.0)).xyz); gl_TessLevelOuter[0] = getTessLevelOuter(eyeToVertexDistance1, eyeToVertexDistance2); gl_TessLevelOuter[1] = getTessLevelOuter(eyeToVertexDistance2, eyeToVertexDistance0); gl_TessLevelOuter[2] = getTessLevelOuter(eyeToVertexDistance0, eyeToVertexDistance1); gl_TessLevelInner[0] = getTessLevelInner(eyeToVertexDistance2, eyeToVertexDistance0); } Tessellation Evaluation shader: #version 410 core layout (triangles, equal_spacing, cw) in; in vec3 te_normal[]; in vec3 te_bitangent[]; in vec3 te_tangent[]; in vec2 te_textureCoordinates[]; in vec3 te_vertex[]; out vec3 g_normal; out vec3 g_bitangent; out vec4 g_patchDistance; out vec3 g_tangent; out vec2 g_textureCoordinates; out vec3 g_vertex; uniform float vf_te_inner; uniform float vf_te_outer; uniform vec4 vf_l_color; uniform vec3 vf_l_position; uniform mat4 vf_m_depthBias; uniform mat4 vf_m_model; uniform mat4 vf_m_mvp; uniform mat3 vf_m_normal; uniform mat4 vf_m_projection; uniform mat4 vf_m_view; uniform sampler2D vf_t_diffuse; uniform sampler2D vf_t_displace; uniform sampler2D vf_t_normal; uniform sampler2DShadow vf_t_shadow; uniform sampler2D vf_t_specular; vec2 interpolate2D(vec2 v0, vec2 v1, vec2 v2) { return vec2(gl_TessCoord.x) * v0 + vec2(gl_TessCoord.y) * v1 + vec2(gl_TessCoord.z) * v2; } vec3 interpolate3D(vec3 v0, vec3 v1, vec3 v2) { return vec3(gl_TessCoord.x) * v0 + vec3(gl_TessCoord.y) * v1 + vec3(gl_TessCoord.z) * v2; } float amplify(float d, float scale, float offset) { d = scale * d + offset; d = clamp(d, 0, 1); d = 1 - exp2(-2*d*d); return d; } float getDisplacement(vec2 t0, vec2 t1, vec2 t2) { float displacement = 0.0; vec2 textureCoordinates = interpolate2D(t0, t1, t2); vec2 vector = ((t0 + t1 + t2) / 3.0); float sampleDistance = sqrt((vector.x * vector.x) + (vector.y * vector.y)); sampleDistance /= ((vf_te_inner + vf_te_outer) / 2.0); displacement += texture(vf_t_displace, textureCoordinates).x; displacement += texture(vf_t_displace, textureCoordinates + vec2(-sampleDistance, -sampleDistance)).x; displacement += texture(vf_t_displace, textureCoordinates + vec2(-sampleDistance, sampleDistance)).x; displacement += texture(vf_t_displace, textureCoordinates + vec2( sampleDistance, sampleDistance)).x; displacement += texture(vf_t_displace, textureCoordinates + vec2( sampleDistance, -sampleDistance)).x; return (displacement / 5.0); } void main() { g_normal = normalize(interpolate3D(te_normal[0], te_normal[1], te_normal[2])); g_bitangent = normalize(interpolate3D(te_bitangent[0], te_bitangent[1], te_bitangent[2])); g_patchDistance = vec4(gl_TessCoord, (1.0 - gl_TessCoord.y)); g_tangent = normalize(interpolate3D(te_tangent[0], te_tangent[1], te_tangent[2])); g_textureCoordinates = interpolate2D(te_textureCoordinates[0], te_textureCoordinates[1], te_textureCoordinates[2]); g_vertex = interpolate3D(te_vertex[0], te_vertex[1], te_vertex[2]); float displacement = getDisplacement(te_textureCoordinates[0], te_textureCoordinates[1], te_textureCoordinates[2]); float d2 = min(min(min(g_patchDistance.x, g_patchDistance.y), g_patchDistance.z), g_patchDistance.w); d2 = amplify(d2, 50, -0.5); g_vertex += g_normal * displacement * 0.1 * d2; gl_Position = vf_m_mvp * vec4(g_vertex, 1.0); } Geometry shader: #version 410 core layout (triangles) in; layout (triangle_strip, max_vertices = 3) out; in vec3 g_normal[3]; in vec3 g_bitangent[3]; in vec4 g_patchDistance[3]; in vec3 g_tangent[3]; in vec2 g_textureCoordinates[3]; in vec3 g_vertex[3]; out vec3 f_tangent; out vec3 f_bitangent; out vec3 f_eyeDirection; out vec3 f_lightDirection; out vec3 f_normal; out vec4 f_patchDistance; out vec4 f_shadowCoordinates; out vec2 f_textureCoordinates; out vec3 f_vertex; uniform vec4 vf_l_color; uniform vec3 vf_l_position; uniform mat4 vf_m_depthBias; uniform mat4 vf_m_model; uniform mat4 vf_m_mvp; uniform mat3 vf_m_normal; uniform mat4 vf_m_projection; uniform mat4 vf_m_view; uniform sampler2D vf_t_diffuse; uniform sampler2D vf_t_normal; uniform sampler2DShadow vf_t_shadow; uniform sampler2D vf_t_specular; void main() { int index = 0; while (index < 3) { vec3 vertexNormal_cameraspace = vf_m_normal * normalize(g_normal[index]); vec3 vertexTangent_cameraspace = vf_m_normal * normalize(f_tangent); vec3 vertexBitangent_cameraspace = vf_m_normal * normalize(f_bitangent); mat3 TBN = transpose(mat3( vertexTangent_cameraspace, vertexBitangent_cameraspace, vertexNormal_cameraspace )); vec3 eyeDirection = -(vf_m_view * vf_m_model * vec4(g_vertex[index], 1.0)).xyz; vec3 lightDirection = normalize(-(vf_m_view * vec4(vf_l_position, 1.0)).xyz); f_eyeDirection = TBN * eyeDirection; f_lightDirection = TBN * lightDirection; f_normal = normalize(g_normal[index]); f_patchDistance = g_patchDistance[index]; f_shadowCoordinates = vf_m_depthBias * vec4(g_vertex[index], 1.0); f_textureCoordinates = g_textureCoordinates[index]; f_vertex = (vf_m_model * vec4(g_vertex[index], 1.0)).xyz; gl_Position = gl_in[index].gl_Position; EmitVertex(); index ++; } EndPrimitive(); } Fragment shader: #version 410 core in vec3 f_bitangent; in vec3 f_eyeDirection; in vec3 f_lightDirection; in vec3 f_normal; in vec4 f_patchDistance; in vec4 f_shadowCoordinates; in vec3 f_tangent; in vec2 f_textureCoordinates; in vec3 f_vertex; out vec4 fragColor; uniform vec4 vf_l_color; uniform vec3 vf_l_position; uniform mat4 vf_m_depthBias; uniform mat4 vf_m_model; uniform mat4 vf_m_mvp; uniform mat4 vf_m_projection; uniform mat4 vf_m_view; uniform sampler2D vf_t_diffuse; uniform sampler2D vf_t_normal; uniform sampler2DShadow vf_t_shadow; uniform sampler2D vf_t_specular; vec2 poissonDisk[16] = vec2[]( vec2(-0.94201624, -0.39906216), vec2( 0.94558609, -0.76890725), vec2(-0.09418410, -0.92938870), vec2( 0.34495938, 0.29387760), vec2(-0.91588581, 0.45771432), vec2(-0.81544232, -0.87912464), vec2(-0.38277543, 0.27676845), vec2( 0.97484398, 0.75648379), vec2( 0.44323325, -0.97511554), vec2( 0.53742981, -0.47373420), vec2(-0.26496911, -0.41893023), vec2( 0.79197514, 0.19090188), vec2(-0.24188840, 0.99706507), vec2(-0.81409955, 0.91437590), vec2( 0.19984126, 0.78641367), vec2( 0.14383161, -0.14100790) ); float random(vec3 seed, int i) { vec4 seed4 = vec4(seed,i); float dot_product = dot(seed4, vec4(12.9898, 78.233, 45.164, 94.673)); return fract(sin(dot_product) * 43758.5453); } float amplify(float d, float scale, float offset) { d = scale * d + offset; d = clamp(d, 0, 1); d = 1 - exp2(-2.0 * d * d); return d; } void main() { vec3 lightColor = vf_l_color.xyz; float lightPower = vf_l_color.w; vec3 materialDiffuseColor = texture(vf_t_diffuse, f_textureCoordinates).xyz; vec3 materialAmbientColor = vec3(0.1, 0.1, 0.1) * materialDiffuseColor; vec3 materialSpecularColor = texture(vf_t_specular, f_textureCoordinates).xyz; vec3 n = normalize(texture(vf_t_normal, f_textureCoordinates).rgb * 2.0 - 1.0); vec3 l = normalize(f_lightDirection); float cosTheta = clamp(dot(n, l), 0.0, 1.0); vec3 E = normalize(f_eyeDirection); vec3 R = reflect(-l, n); float cosAlpha = clamp(dot(E, R), 0.0, 1.0); float visibility = 1.0; float bias = 0.005 * tan(acos(cosTheta)); bias = clamp(bias, 0.0, 0.01); for (int i = 0; i < 4; i ++) { float shading = (0.5 / 4.0); int index = i; visibility -= shading * (1.0 - texture(vf_t_shadow, vec3(f_shadowCoordinates.xy + poissonDisk[index] / 3000.0, (f_shadowCoordinates.z - bias) / f_shadowCoordinates.w))); }\n" fragColor.xyz = materialAmbientColor + visibility * materialDiffuseColor * lightColor * lightPower * cosTheta + visibility * materialSpecularColor * lightColor * lightPower * pow(cosAlpha, 5); fragColor.w = texture(vf_t_diffuse, f_textureCoordinates).w; } The following images should be enough to give you an idea of the problem. Before moving the camera: Moving the camera just a little. Moving it to the center of the scene.

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  • Working out of a vertex array for destrucible objects

    - by bobobobo
    I have diamond-shaped polygonal bullets. There are lots of them on the screen. I did not want to create a vertex array for each, so I packed them into a single vertex array and they're all drawn at once. | bullet1.xyz | bullet1.rgb | bullet2.xyz | bullet2.rgb This is great for performance.. there is struct Bullet { vector<Vector3f*> verts ; // pointers into the vertex buffer } ; This works fine, the bullets can move and do collision detection, all while having their data in one place. Except when a bullet "dies" Then you have to clear a slot, and pack all the bullets towards the beginning of the array. Is this a good approach to handling lots of low poly objects? How else would you do it?

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  • How do I render terrain in a 2.5D perspective, like in the game Don't Starve?

    - by Hamdan
    I have experience in making 2D side scroller games such as Terraria, but now I want to challenge myself and make a game that has a 2.5D perspective. The game I am trying to mimic is Don't Starve. Right now my focus is on figuring out how to render the ground. I am having a hard time figuring out how they generated the ground, and then rendered it. The way I think they rendered the ground is by first painting the ground in some paint program, and then somehow manipulating that flat image so that it appears to have depth. I am completely confused by how you would actually render that type of terrain. I want the terrain to have the following features: Look like the terrain in Don't Starve, here is a video showing the terrain in Don't Starve The terrain will be flat, and the camera's angle and perspective will be fixed Any tips and hints will be appreciated, Thank you in advance. (I am working in Java, using the Light Weight Java Game Library (LWJGL).)

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  • Implementing lighting similar as in CubeWorld

    - by Phito
    I am currently writing a voxel engine and my goal is to achieve something looking like CubeWorld. The problem that I am encountering is about lighting. I don't have a lot of knowledge in OpenGL but I don't think lighting in a game like that should be done with glLight. But beside that I have no idea of how to implement it. Here's what I have for the moment (with glLight): Do you have any ideas/link that could give me an idea of how to achieve that? Thanks

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  • Getting a mirrored mesh from my data structure

    - by Steve
    Here's the background: I'm in the beginning stages of an RTS game in Unity. I have a procedurally generated terrain with a perlin-noise height map, as well as a function to generate a river. The problem is that the graphical creation of the map is taking the data structure of the map and rotating it by 180 degrees. I noticed this problem when I was creating my rivers. I would set the River's height to flat, and noticed that the actual tiles that were flat in the graphical representation were flipped and mirrored. Here's 3 screenshots of the map from different angles: http://imgur.com/a/VLHHq As you can see, if you flipped (graphically) the river by 180 degrees on the z axis, it would fit where the terrain is flattened. I have a suspicion it is being caused by a misunderstanding on my part of how vertices work. Alas, here is a snippet of the code that is used: This code here creates a new array of Tile objects, which hold the information for each tile, including its type, coordinate, height, and it's 4 vertices public DTileMap (int size_x, int size_y) { this.size_x = size_x; this.size_y = size_y; //Initialize Map_Data Array of Tile Objects map_data = new Tile[size_x, size_y]; for (int j = 0; j < size_y; j++) { for (int i = 0; i < size_x; i++) { map_data [i, j] = new Tile (); map_data[i,j].coordinate.x = (int)i; map_data[i,j].coordinate.y = (int)j; map_data[i,j].vertices[0] = new Vector3 (i * GTileMap.TileMap.tileSize, map_data[i,j].Height, -j * GTileMap.TileMap.tileSize); map_data[i,j].vertices[1] = new Vector3 ((i+1) * GTileMap.TileMap.tileSize, map_data[i,j].Height, -(j) * GTileMap.TileMap.tileSize); map_data[i,j].vertices[2] = new Vector3 (i * GTileMap.TileMap.tileSize, map_data[i,j].Height, -(j-1) * GTileMap.TileMap.tileSize); map_data[i,j].vertices[3] = new Vector3 ((i+1) * GTileMap.TileMap.tileSize, map_data[i,j].Height, -(j-1) * GTileMap.TileMap.tileSize); } } This code sets the river tiles to height 0 foreach (Tile t in map_data) { if (t.realType == "Water") { t.vertices[0].y = 0f; t.vertices[1].y = 0f; t.vertices[2].y = 0f; t.vertices[3].y = 0f; } } And below is the code to generate the actual graphics from the data: public void BuildMesh () { DTileMap.DTileMap map = new DTileMap.DTileMap (size_x, size_z); int numTiles = size_x * size_z; int numTris = numTiles * 2; int vsize_x = size_x + 1; int vsize_z = size_z + 1; int numVerts = vsize_x * vsize_z; // Generate the mesh data Vector3[] vertices = new Vector3[ numVerts ]; Vector3[] normals = new Vector3[numVerts]; Vector2[] uv = new Vector2[numVerts]; int[] triangles = new int[ numTris * 3 ]; int x, z; for (z=0; z < vsize_z; z++) { for (x=0; x < vsize_x; x++) { normals [z * vsize_x + x] = Vector3.up; uv [z * vsize_x + x] = new Vector2 ((float)x / size_x, 1f - (float)z / size_z); } } for (z=0; z < vsize_z; z+=1) { for (x=0; x < vsize_x; x+=1) { if (x == vsize_x - 1 && z == vsize_z - 1) { vertices [z * vsize_x + x] = DTileMap.DTileMap.map_data [x - 1, z - 1].vertices [3]; } else if (z == vsize_z - 1) { vertices [z * vsize_x + x] = DTileMap.DTileMap.map_data [x, z - 1].vertices [2]; } else if (x == vsize_x - 1) { vertices [z * vsize_x + x] = DTileMap.DTileMap.map_data [x - 1, z].vertices [1]; } else { vertices [z * vsize_x + x] = DTileMap.DTileMap.map_data [x, z].vertices [0]; vertices [z * vsize_x + x+1] = DTileMap.DTileMap.map_data [x, z].vertices [1]; vertices [(z+1) * vsize_x + x] = DTileMap.DTileMap.map_data [x, z].vertices [2]; vertices [(z+1) * vsize_x + x+1] = DTileMap.DTileMap.map_data [x, z].vertices [3]; } } } } for (z=0; z < size_z; z++) { for (x=0; x < size_x; x++) { int squareIndex = z * size_x + x; int triOffset = squareIndex * 6; triangles [triOffset + 0] = z * vsize_x + x + 0; triangles [triOffset + 2] = z * vsize_x + x + vsize_x + 0; triangles [triOffset + 1] = z * vsize_x + x + vsize_x + 1; triangles [triOffset + 3] = z * vsize_x + x + 0; triangles [triOffset + 5] = z * vsize_x + x + vsize_x + 1; triangles [triOffset + 4] = z * vsize_x + x + 1; } } // Create a new Mesh and populate with the data Mesh mesh = new Mesh (); mesh.vertices = vertices; mesh.triangles = triangles; mesh.normals = normals; mesh.uv = uv; // Assign our mesh to our filter/renderer/collider MeshFilter mesh_filter = GetComponent<MeshFilter> (); MeshCollider mesh_collider = GetComponent<MeshCollider> (); mesh_filter.mesh = mesh; mesh_collider.sharedMesh = mesh; calculateMeshTangents (mesh); BuildTexture (map); } If this looks familiar to you, its because i got most of it from Quill18. I've been slowly adapting it for my uses. And please include any suggestions you have for my code. I'm still in the very early prototyping stage.

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  • How to acheive a smoother lighting effect

    - by Cyral
    I'm making a tile based game in XNA So currently my lightning looks like this: How can I get it to look like this? Instead of each block having its own tint, it has a smooth overlay. I'm assuming some sort of shader, and to tell it the lighting and blur it some how. But im not an expert with shaders. My current lighting calculates the light, and then passes it to a spritebatch and draws with a color parameter EDIT: No longer uses spritebatch tint, I was testing and now pass parameters to set the light values. But still looking for a way to smooth it

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  • View space lighting in deferred shading

    - by kochol
    I implemented a simple deferred shading renderer. I use 3 G-Buffer for storing position (R32F), normal (G16R16F) and albedo (ARGB8). I use sphere map algorithm to store normals in world space. Currently I use inverse of view * projection matrix to calculate the position of each pixel from stored depth value. First I want to avoid per pixel matrix multiplication for calculating the position. Is there another way to store and calculate position in G-Buffer without the need of matrix multiplication Store the normal in view space Every lighting in my engine is in world space and I want do the lighting in view space to speed up my lighting pass. I want an optimized lighting pass for my deferred engine.

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  • Cron prepending filename to script output

    - by Caitifty
    I'm having an issue with unwanted lines being added to files output by a cron job. I have a script in /etc/cron.hourly which selects some data from a mysql database and saves it in a text file in /var/www. When I run the script as root, it does exactly what I expect it to do. When the script is executed by cron, it creates the same file, but prepends the following three lines at the top of the output file: :::::::::::::: /var/www/outputfilename :::::::::::::: I can't for the life of me work out how to stop this unwanted behavior. The line in /etc/crontab for cron.hourly is the default "44 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly". If I use su to change to being root and do "cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly" the script runs as expected and the output doesn't have the mysterious additional 3 lines. I've also tried removing the --report flag from the run-parts command in case that was somehow connected, but no joy. Finally, perusing the cron log output in /var/log/syslog just says cron.hourly ran without giving any additional information. Any suggestions on solving this weird problem most welcome..

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  • Failing Screen Resize Method

    - by StrongJoshua
    So I want my game to draw to a specific "optimal" size and then be stretched to fit screens that are a different size. I'm using LibGDX and figured that I could just draw everything to a FrameBuffer and then resize that buffer to the appropriate size when drawing it to the actual display. However, my method does not work, it just results in a black screen with the top right quarter of the screen white.Intermediary is the FBO, interMatrix is a Matrix4 object, and camera is an OrthographicCamera. @Override public void render() { // update actors currentStage.act(); //render to intermediary buffer batch.setProjectionMatrix(interMatrix); intermediary.begin(); batch.begin(); currentStage.draw(); batch.flush(); intermediary.end(); //resize to actual width and height Sprite s = new Sprite(intermediary.getColorBufferTexture()); s.flip(true, false); batch.setProjectionMatrix(camera.combined); batch.draw(s.getTexture(), 0, 0, width, height); batch.end(); } These are the constructors for the above mentioned objects (GAME_WIDTH and HEIGHT are the "optimal" settings, width and height are the actual sizes, which are the same when running on desktop). intermediary = new FrameBuffer(Format.RGBA8888, GAME_WIDTH, GAME_HEIGHT, false); interMatrix = new Matrix4(); camera = new OrthographicCamera(width, height); interMatrix.setToOrtho2D(0, 0, GAME_WIDTH, GAME_HEIGHT); Is there a better way of doing this or can is this a viable option and how do I fix what I have?

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  • How do I create a big multiplayer world in UDK?

    - by Dorpe
    I want to create a big multiplayer world in UDK and I'm having a few difficulties. I created the biggest terrain possible but then any terrain related action I do takes forever. However, I've seen videos of people make same size terrain and working without a problem. My pc is strong enough, so maybe someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I want to make it even bigger then the biggest terrain size, so I was thinking of doing level streaming but then I read that streaming is working server side which means if I have a player on every terrain all terrains will still be loaded and I want to save as much memory possible so it will work well online. Thanks for any help you can give.

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