DeleD Community Edition

[Mille]

Well, beside game projects, Delgine can also be used for testing shader effects . Some stuff I made using DG3D:

Heat Haze:


Relief mapping:


Depth of field:


Demos online at: www.soft.dk

Thanks Delgine for a great tool

[Jeroen]

Those are very nice effects you're achieving, Mille! Keep us posted about your stuff, it's cool!

[Mille]

Thanks

Most of the scenes I’ve made are quite small, just used for shader effect testing.

But I was thinking about what to do if I want to make a really really big scene, some kind of city environment. Say, for instance that every house/building was made as a separate dmf model (maybe with the help of importing .x/.3ds files in Delgine). Then I would need a “Editor” to select each model and place them in the scene – AND attach properties to each dmf model.

The overall idear was to make a lightning system in the "Editor", where you can add a light (omni, spot, lightprojector) and attach a shader to that light, in order to get dynamic per-pixel lightning (parallax mapping). Then with a few properties of the light (for instance which dmf models is affected by the light) and a few properties of each dmf model (for instance which models must not be used in occlusion tests of another models), could make a nice fast rendering pipeline. Maybe this sounds crazy

Is there already such an Editor/tool out there ?,
Hows does Irrlicht handels bigs DMF scene, with occlusiuon/octree tests ?
(can Irrlicht even do Per-pixel lightning, HDR, Haze effects, etc)

[Paul-Jan]

Very impressive results!

To me that editor sounds like a bit like the scene editing tools of the major engines (UnrealEd, Hammer, TGE World Editor (on steroids)). Irrlicht has IrrSED, but I don't think it comes close to what you describe here. Ogre has... well it sorta has dotscene and the dotsceneexporter. And there is blink3d. All in all, this post is not of much help, so I'll shut up now...

[Mille]

Thanks for your input, actually I didn't know of "Hammer", so your replay is appreciated. Anyways, I just like big spare time projects, so I’ll give it a try on building a tiny editor for big dmf scenes (of many dmf models) and an associated rendering engine – all rendering will be through HLSL shaders for maximum custom-tweaking and per-pixel dynamic lights, its all about getting the GPU as hot as possible.

Should I get anything nice running, I’ll give it to you for free.

[Paul-Jan]

[Sindwiller]

[Mille]

I just wish my girlfriend also thought I was a brave man

Anyways, I got a VisualC++ managed form up and running, with a panel which displays a lit DMF scene of your choice (only one omni light at the moment). Damn, the auto generated code for the C++ managed UI components is ugly, but if you can live with that, there are 2 huge benefits with a C++ managed form - its much more easy to build then MFC (using VS2005), and if you have components (*.lib) written i C++, they can be used directly.

Shoots to come ..

[Sindwiller]

Are you programin in DX or in OGL? When you program in OGL, use GLUT, its very useful

Wfr, Sindwiller
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[Mille]

Its all in DX9, since I got some experiance from work etc. Anyways GLUT is nice, but I must say I've be falling into the Microsoft way, DirectX, and HLSL shaders.

Work from this weekend:
Damn I wish I had more time