DeleD Community Edition

[Paul-Jan]

Yeah, I totally agree that floor looks strange. What kind of geometry are we looking at, some grid with up/down vertices? Care to share your model at this early state?

[Daaark]

[madcowthomas]

[Daaark]

[Nocturn]

I'm now finished with my Scene:



Added some fire in the Engine to give it some touch. Map & Textures are already send. Go on Guys

[Jeroen]

Yes, got your entry just fine! The scene looks good - let's wait and see who can compete!

[Paul-Jan]

Madcowthomas: Glad to hear you are still alive and kicking!

Nocturn: Sweeeeeet! Good job...

Vampyre: I did some testing with your scene and here are some tips to improve the lighting. The scene was quite interesting as it highlights some of the major problems with the current lightmapper. I wanted to do a full report with screenshots and all, but random things got in the way and now here I am with a day that is near it's end and a gazillion things left to do, so I'll just type a short e-mail then

1. The 'flame' textures (I am guessing they are flames, I have gray squares because I have no textures ) that run straight through the middle of the pointlights cause the weird grainy noise. Because of precision errors, every pixel rendered is randomly shadowed or not by those polygons, causing the noisy effect.
- Suggested improvement to DeleD: ability to mark flames as not casting shadows (I cannot simply make the lightmapper ignore planes until they are a bit further away... that would simply move the problem, not solve it)
- Suggested improvement for now: ... hmmm, though one, perhaps you can offset them just a little bit more away from the center of the lights.

2. The lamp edges cause huge and sharp shadows, that look very unnatural. The only real situation in which a lantern would cast such shadows would be a completely dark room with one light sitting in a lantern, not in a multi light daylight scenario like this.
- Suggest improvement to DeleD: ability to mark lanterns as not casting shadows, or implement a decent Global Illumination system that makes the snow light up more equally, and makes the light shine 'around' the edges of the lantern. Bad wording, but you know what I mean.
- Suggested improvement for now: ... I'm not really sure, perhaps the light colors could be a little less distinct so the shadows cast by the lanterns don't stand out that much?

3. The skybox (huge wall) polygons are very large compared to the other polygons in the scene, de-balancing the dynamic texture equation causing a much lower lightmap resolution on all other polygons in the scene.
- Suggested improvement to DeleD: Fixed texel density (with local override) throughout the scene
- Suggested improvement for now: Change those solid polygons into walls. You know, the thing you keep telling everyone they should do, and then I tell them they should use dynamic texture sizes instead...

Hope that helps, and hopefully you can fix up the look a bit before saturday... The design of the scene is excellent!

[Daaark]

[madcowthomas]

Okay, still in the process of adding some textures and details.


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[Jeroen]

[Daaark]

FINAL

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[Jeroen]

Looking great, VD! Don't forget to send us the DMF+textures.

[Daaark]

[Jeroen]

Thanks, got it! Lightmaps don't have to be included.

[afecelis]

Deadline is tomorrow, right? I'm sending my project in tomorrow after trying some last thingies tonite!