So, what are you working on right now?

[SiyahParsomen]

awesome shot

 

what about fps?

[Arcturus]

terrain is model or patch ? grass is animated ?

I made the whole map in Blender. In Radiant I only put it all together, monsterclipped, etc. Half of the grass is animated and half is static. We can't use LOD with animated md5mesh so I had to use static grass with LOD too.

 

what about fps?

FPS is as one can imagine quite low. I have: Athlon 7550 (2.51 GHz), 3 GB RAM DDR2 and Radeon HD4800 1GB. In 1280 x 1024, with antialiasing 4x, anisotropic 8x, ambient, interaction and post processing all maxed, standing in that place from the screenshot from the first post I have about 32 FPS. That's in the middle of the map where only half of the place is visible at once. Worst performance is on one end of the map where the whole place is visible - about 22 FPS. When you look at the sky or the wall FPS jumps to 60. When I turn off antialiasing there's an up to 5 frames per second gain with almost no loss of quality (that is mountains and grass look just as good).

 

Another screenshot:

 

[Shadowhide]

I made the whole map in Blender.

 

today i played a Gothic 3 and you map looks kinda better d3 engine requires BPS geometry to visportalize ect... only optimization tip is cut map in more separate parts,surround it with portal sky and visportalize it

 

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with antialiasing 4x, anisotropic 8x,

 

v-sync is slowing game too

 

Another screenshot:

 

holy cow !

 

 

 

 

 

[nbohr1more]

Those performance figures seem pretty good for that scene complexity.

 

I can't wait to murder my old dinosaur system testing this out

[Arcturus]

Thanks I already put visportals. I have v-sync turned off.

[Sotha]

Another screenshot:

 

Pretty like a painting..

[7upMan]

Definitely. Arcturus, can you make that screenshot in your native res and post it? I'd like to have it as a background image.

 

 

[Arcturus]

Sure Here you are: http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/563/grass1280.png

[AluminumHaste]

I made the whole map in Blender. In Radiant I only put it all together, monsterclipped, etc. Half of the grass is animated and half is static. We can't use LOD with animated md5mesh so I had to use static grass with LOD too.

 

 

FPS is as one can imagine quite low. I have: Athlon 7550 (2.51 GHz), 3 GB RAM DDR2 and Radeon HD4800 1GB. In 1280 x 1024, with antialiasing 4x, anisotropic 8x, ambient, interaction and post processing all maxed, standing in that place from the screenshot from the first post I have about 32 FPS. That's in the middle of the map where only half of the place is visible at once. Worst performance is on one end of the map where the whole place is visible - about 22 FPS. When you look at the sky or the wall FPS jumps to 60. When I turn off antialiasing there's an up to 5 frames per second gain with almost no loss of quality (that is mountains and grass look just as good).

 

Another screenshot:

 

 

Amazing shot, do me a favor though, open the console and type in:

 

bind F11 screenshot 1920 1080 128

 

Then press F11 in the same spot then post the screenshot here.

[Bikerdude]

FPS is as one can imagine quite low.

Something that was accidentaly done in the 1.06 update is the wrong settings in the default doomconfig.config file. These have had the effect of lowering and the fps, so change the following settings to as follows in your doomconfig.config etc.

 

image_usePrecompressedTextures "1"

image_useNormalCompression "2"

image_useAllFormats "1"

image_useCompression "1"

image_preload "1

[jaxa]

Sure Here you are: http://img837.images...3/grass1280.png

 

^ My new background.

[Arcturus]

bind F11 screenshot 1920 1080 128

 

Then press F11 in the same spot then post the screenshot here.

I'm sorry, but half of the screenshot renders black.

 

image_usePrecompressedTextures "1"

image_useNormalCompression "2"

image_useAllFormats "1"

image_useCompression "1"

image_preload "1

I had normalmap compression set to 0. Changing to "2" gave maybe 0,5 FPS difference, if any.

[AluminumHaste]

I'm sorry, but half of the screenshot renders black.

 

 

That's more than likely because you are running a 4:3 ratio with 1280x1024 so Doom3 tries to render out to 1920x1080 but the buffer only has enough data for 4:3 ratio. Oh well, was hoping for much higher resolution.

 

How about:

 

bind F11 screenshot 1280 1024 128

[Mortem Desino]

Any reason why you're trying to multisample the screenshot 128 times? Since the player view won't change in those 128 frames, it's not like it will antialias the edges.

[AluminumHaste]

His screenshots are horribly aliased, would like to see it with some high AA. And mutlisampling is Anti-Aliasing so I'm not sure what you are talking about

 

Now whether or not Doom3's AA command will sample the grass I'm not sure, but it will only take him 2 seconds to try. And if he doesn't want to do it then I won't complain

[Arcturus]

The image is noticeably blurry, especially the reflection. And I think a bit darker. Blades are alpha textures not polygons. I don't see any improvement there. Actuallly it looks worse.

[nbohr1more]

Doom 3 won't.

 

He would need to use a TSAA mode in his driver and use the OS Print Screen \ System Request key (then Paste into an image editor) rather than a Doom 3 native one.

 

Actually, if you wanna get crazy about this, Sikkpin created a Post-Process AA shader that might help but would make the interaction shader that much heavier. You could add a "Bullshot Mode" to the available interaction shaders which would only be used for creating promotional screens

Edited July 20, 2011 by nbohr1more

[Mortem Desino]

Nevermind. I'm stupid.

 

I never realized that Carmack also implemented screen "shake" when sampling screenshots. That would, indeed, anti-alias.

 

What's happening is not "antialiasing" (in the terms of the video options menu), because it is not supersampling or grabbing fragments. It is really the 7.8125% mixing of 128 individual screenshots (like the blurry blurry photograph you get when the camera shutter is left open too long).

[AluminumHaste]

Yeah I was worried about that. oh well. I know that I have Supersampling turned on in Nvidia control panel for Transparent textures, but that would be a huge performance hit in that scene.

[Arcturus]

Another screenshot:

 

 

 

 

[Serpentine]

Haha, I spent a good bit of time the other night working on a simple fish and some basic kelpy seaweed. After that pic, I think it's safe to say that I will save face by not posting a screenshot.

 

That looks really nice!

[AluminumHaste]

Love it!

[Glyph Seeker]

**CARP DETECTED**

 

>:-(

 

Unleash the magma!

[Arcturus]

Thanks

[Bikerdude]

Ah very nice... but does the fish actually swim..?