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J.C.Denton

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Maybe v1.03 if we can work out all the kinks

 

Well, wow, that's more progress than I was hoping for!

 

I wouldn't be disgusted to see a vid with a side by side demo of a bit of a walk-through of say mission 1 of say NHAT with say a sample of the HDR vs say the say POTDM.

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I would like to see something like that as well.

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a comparison- pic or vidao with hdr on and off would be nice ;)

 

Same answer. :) The current settings are not yet finalized. It's quite possible that what we post right now could look different from a final release. When we feel it's close to a releasable stage, we'll post pics then.

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Heh, I see that the water tutorial at modwiki has the fresnel shader in it... So perhaps something like water with a Marble murk... (yeah I'm talking to myself... :laugh:)

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The guys were running in some complications and are now working on a decent compromise, which should also improve performance compared to the old implementation. All this HDR work has been going on quite some time, so everyone involved is pushing for a releasable state at the moment. This is no "yes" or "no" to your question though... ;)

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I don't know I think it looks phenomenal at the moment, and performance doesn't even suffer that much. Although there's still that issue where you are underwater and FPS goes to like 3 fps.

 

Does this only happen with HDR? Under which circumstances on which system and which map?

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Does this only happen with HDR? Under which circumstances on which system and which map?

 

Using latest SVN checkout, any underwater overlay causes FPS to drop almost to 1 with PostProcess turned on. Same with the Bloom AFAIK.

 

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Doesn't matter what map, any water that uses the murky wavy effect when you are submerged causes this issue.

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Does this only happen with HDR? Under which circumstances on which system and which map?

 

Oh forgot to mention, turning off HDR fixes the issue, and I get constant 60 fps underwater. I'll take some screenshots tonight along with a cvar dump so you can see which settings I'm using.

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Well, I am suffering from the same issue and I have a single gpu card (NV 8800 GTS). I also had that problem with bloom and I was hoping for the new HDR implementation to fix this issue for me, but it didn't. Maybe we could implement a workaround for users that have this issue. Whenever murky water is entered, postprocessing (or bloom) could be turned off and re-enabled after leaving it again.

 

tdm_murkyWaterWorkaround 1|0 :)

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Well, I am suffering from the same issue and I have a single gpu card (NV 8800 GTS). I also had that problem with bloom and I was hoping for the new HDR implementation to fix this issue for me, but it didn't. Maybe we could implement a workaround for users that have this issue. Whenever murky water is entered, postprocessing (or bloom) could be turned off and re-enabled after leaving it again.

 

tdm_murkyWaterWorkaround 1|0 :)

 

Hm, is it definitely the underwater overlay, or the "blur" in the water? We have a water test map, maybe you could run in there and check if it occurs everywhere? If it is a specific thing, we might indeed add a cvar to turn only this off for you.

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I won't be home 'till sunday, so I won't be able to check it out now. If AH didn't do it until then, I'll do it and post report here. I'd prefer however if the postprocessing / bloom was temporarily disabled, as removing blur or the overlay will remove a lot of the "underwater feeling".

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I won't be home 'till sunday, so I won't be able to check it out now. If AH didn't do it until then, I'll do it and post report here. I'd prefer however if the postprocessing / bloom was temporarily disabled, as removing blur or the overlay will remove a lot of the "underwater feeling".

 

I think that could be done. The code already tracks when you enter/leave water (for the "AI can see you now less good" effect) and so it should be able to toggle temp. the CVARS on/off.

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