Spooks 700 Posted January 19, 2019 Report Share Posted January 19, 2019 Btw. why shadowcaulk? Models are there to cast their shadows (or those cast by a dedicated shadow mesh). This looks like a very uncommon way of doing things. The wall modules won't seal the level. Why shadowcaulk over caulk then? Honestly, I don't remember why I do it now! I just remember there was a bad drawback with caulk that I discovered and it turned me to shadowcaulk, which did a better job. At any rate, one benefit is that you can freely turn off the shadow casting on any wall module in a concave room (conditionally through LOD or not), because if there is any light, it will be casting light on the wall modules, the modules themselves won't cast shadows inwards, to the room. The exception is the trim, but if it's minimal or the light is cast not too dramatically, the player won't notice. As regards to the material issue, don't worry guys i fixed it Should I track this one? 3 Quote My FMs: The King of Diamonds (2016) | Visit my Mapbook thread sometimes! | Read my tutorial on Image-Based Lighting Workflows for TDM! Link to post Share on other sites
stgatilov 1129 Posted January 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2019 New release codenamed beta207-06 is out.Update as usual for beta. Changelog added at the very beginning of this thread. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lowenz 601 Posted January 20, 2019 Report Share Posted January 20, 2019 Can we now use safely the singlepass SM? Quote Task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody see. - E.S. Link to post Share on other sites
peter_spy 1537 Posted January 20, 2019 Report Share Posted January 20, 2019 Proper smoothing is back, thanks! Quote Misc. assets for TDM Link to post Share on other sites
lowenz 601 Posted January 20, 2019 Report Share Posted January 20, 2019 (edited) Found this little change in the cfg file: seta pm_bobup "0.035" up from 0.03 of old versions. Why? Edited January 20, 2019 by lowenz Quote Task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody see. - E.S. Link to post Share on other sites
lowenz 601 Posted January 20, 2019 Report Share Posted January 20, 2019 (edited) Can we now use safely the singlepass SM?It seems that now the game simply crash forcing the singlepass to 1. Edited January 20, 2019 by lowenz Quote Task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody see. - E.S. Link to post Share on other sites
nbohr1more 2094 Posted January 20, 2019 Report Share Posted January 20, 2019 It seems that now the game simply crash forcing the singlepass to 1. Confirmed. Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post stgatilov 1129 Posted January 22, 2019 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 New update is up: beta207-07Please update. This is considered a "release candidate".Meaning that most likely it will become the final 2.07 release. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VanishedOne 543 Posted January 25, 2019 Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 Something seems to be up with shadowing on the model used by e.g. atdm:ai_guard_generic_02. A quick check in 2.06 indicates it's new to 2.07. 1 Quote Some things I'm repeatedly thinking about... - louder scream when you're dying Link to post Share on other sites
Springheel 4630 Posted January 25, 2019 Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 Which shadow mode is that? Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to post Share on other sites
stgatilov 1129 Posted January 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 Which shadow mode is that?Stencil. One way to reproduce is: boot up e.g. Chalice of Kings and teleport e.g. to (3877 3265 160).There is guard standing there.Obtain a lantern somehow (e.g. spawn atdm:playertools_lantern and pick it up), enable it and fly around him. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
duzenko 654 Posted January 25, 2019 Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 Stencil. One way to reproduce is: boot up e.g. Chalice of Kings and teleport e.g. to (3877 3265 160).There is guard standing there.Obtain a lantern somehow (e.g. spawn atdm:playertools_lantern and pick it up), enable it and fly around him.Looks like shadow volume on the thin armor surface overlaps with the surface itselfPlay with r_shadowpoligonOffset/factor to proveSeparate shadow LOD? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stgatilov 1129 Posted January 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 I'm already in process of "bisecting".Unfortunately, the issue is older than automation, which makes it slower. Also created issue 4979. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nbohr1more 2094 Posted January 25, 2019 Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 Hmm... related to: Square Root problems? http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4877 AFAIK recall a few math lib changes were also made for mantling improvements or coincided with them... Historically, we saw stencil issues where MSVC updates muddled with Epsilon behavior so we had to excludeparts of the stencil calc from inline optimizations. Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to post Share on other sites
stgatilov 1129 Posted January 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 I found the commit which caused the problem --- see issue 4979. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Springheel 4630 Posted January 25, 2019 Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 Looks like shadow volume on the thin armor surface overlaps with the surface itselfPlay with r_shadowpoligonOffset/factor to proveSeparate shadow LOD? Yes, all AI have both shadowmeshes and LOD stages. Has there been a change to how they work since 2.06? Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to post Share on other sites
duzenko 654 Posted January 25, 2019 Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 Yes, all AI have both shadowmeshes and LOD stages. Has there been a change to how they work since 2.06?Never mind, it was my bug Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spooks 700 Posted January 26, 2019 Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 I've not had a chance to test since my last post, which was a workweek ago. When I said I "fixed it" I meant the remark from VanishedOne. I assumed the problem might have been fixed in beta 7 but as it has not I have indeed gone ahead and tracked it. Reopen http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4955. The bug is back on beta 7. I cross referenced both in my WIPs and in the view position in William Steele. 1 Quote My FMs: The King of Diamonds (2016) | Visit my Mapbook thread sometimes! | Read my tutorial on Image-Based Lighting Workflows for TDM! Link to post Share on other sites
stgatilov 1129 Posted January 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 Reopen http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4955. The bug is back on beta 7. I cross referenced both in my WIPs and in the view position in William Steele.Yes.I added some missing clamps, and now it should work exactly as the old shader did in 2.05.And in 2.05, the crate looks exactly the same.I think in the end it is the crate which should be fixed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spooks 700 Posted January 26, 2019 Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 By no means do I think it's somehow a problem in the crate. Or rather, if you think the 2.05 shader is the problem, the crate's not the only thing affected. I've noticed black splotches and over-brightened specularity on cylinder patches in my map that were not there during the previous beta. Here is a cropped picture, with magnification: The light is coming from behind, from the window, and that four-sided, cylindrical patch exhibits the bug on a face that's facing somewhat away from the light, yet is getting inordinately strong specular (and clipping to black), compared to simple interaction shader or enhanced on beta 6. Honestly, I think there's something wrong with the 2.05 shader in and of itself, because I've encountered similar stuff in 2.06, like the stair models I talked about earlier in the thread. I don't remember it being this bad though. If needs be I can make a test map, but not today, maybe on Sunday. 1 Quote My FMs: The King of Diamonds (2016) | Visit my Mapbook thread sometimes! | Read my tutorial on Image-Based Lighting Workflows for TDM! Link to post Share on other sites
stgatilov 1129 Posted January 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 By no means do I think it's somehow a problem in the crate. Or rather, if you think the 2.05 shader is the problem, the crate's not the only thing affected. I've noticed black splotches and over-brightened specularity on cylinder patches in my map that were not there during the previous beta. Here is a cropped picture, with magnification:If you ask me, I would happily delete all those things called "rim light" and "fresnel" from the shader. At least for 99% of objects.All those weird components raised to insane power... they are doomed to have unintentional effects. Speaking of the crate tin WS4, its lighting is weird even with simple shader.But simple shader doesn't have all those risky components, so it does not look so obviously wrong.Try to move candle yourself near the crate with simple interaction. It is not correct. UPDATE: added an image into 4955.The crates have smoothed vertex normals, which generates absolutely crazy tangent space, so any hope of proper lighting disappears. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
duzenko 654 Posted January 26, 2019 Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 If you ask me, I would happily delete all those things called "rim light" and "fresnel" from the shader. At least for 99% of objects. +1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peter_spy 1537 Posted January 26, 2019 Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 Please leave any major graphics tweaks for next version, 207 was supposed to be a stability release, and messing with stuff like smoothing makes it anything but. 1 Quote Misc. assets for TDM Link to post Share on other sites
stgatilov 1129 Posted January 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2019 New beta build (codename: beta207-08) is available.Changelog is here, as usual. P.S. Please play some time with Stencil shadows. I have a feeling they are overlooked 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
STiFU 732 Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 It's getting awfully quiet here. Does that mean all issues are resolved in the newest beta version, or did nobody test it? :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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