What Dreams Way Come

Editor overview: SoundMix Editor

2010-04-16T17:28:00.005+03:00

The SoundMixEditor is a visual editor for mixing sounds and effects.

+ Using Audiere.
+ Many nodes for sound tree modification.
+ Controlled nodes from script and database.
+ Supports 3D sound.
+ Many more.

Screen short:

Planets. Short flight.

2010-04-09T03:15:00.001+03:00

Editor overview: PostProcessEditor

2010-03-04T11:52:00.003+02:00

Supports next post-effects:

+ Bloom
+ DepthOfField
+ MotionBlur
+ ColorCorrection
+ SSAO
+ Material
+ Haze
+ And more.

Screen shots:

Editor overview: SkeletalMeshEditor

2010-03-03T19:53:00.004+02:00

+ Animations.
+ Setting animation segments directly by hands.
+ Sockets with previews.
+ Feedbacks (play sound, call script function, attach mesh, attach partices system, more) on setted frame or time.
+ Lods. Change of amount of bones and triangles, animation update frequency, depending on ScreenFactor.
+ And more.

Screen shots:

Editor overview: MaterialEditor updates

2010-02-28T23:28:00.010+02:00

Post about MaterialEditor: http://whatdreamswaycome.blogspot.com/2010/01/editor-overview-nodes-based.html

New:
1. Built-in CurvesEditor to flexible control shader input - Float and the Float4 variables.
2. Added Diffuseness, Ambient, LightingMask material inputs.
3. Added new properties to material.
4. Original appearance is a bit changed.
5. Material expressions can change a size.
6. Added new material expressions: If, For, While, Arrays, etc.
7. Arrow heads to the connections lines.
8. New menu items.
9. Faster compilation.
10. The generated code can be viewed and extremely changes by hands.
11. And more.

Screenshot:

Static Lighting with GI

2010-02-14T00:26:00.004+02:00

I'm currently working on implementing a static lighting with global illumination. Here are some results, baked high resolution shadows from multiple light sources of different types plus Radiosity Normal Mapping. GI comming soon.

Editor overview: LensFlaresEditor

2010-02-07T15:56:00.012+02:00

+ Any materials can be used in the one flare.
+ Flexible options that depend on flare offsets/distance (color/alpha/rotation/size/etc)
+ Not limited number of flares in one effect.
+ And more.

Screenshots:

Editor overview: ParticesEditor

2010-02-02T14:30:00.011+02:00

Features:

+ Built-in CurvesEditor allows to modify any values how you want.
+ You can create how many you want emittors with any materials and mashes.
+ Editor support PhysX fluids, and dynamic particles collision.
+ And more.

Screenshots:

Editor overview: nodes-based MaterialEditor

2010-01-27T17:08:00.027+02:00

Can be setted
+ Phong, Cook-Torrance, Anisotropic lighting models.
+ Different blending modes.
+ Back face material.
+ Motion blur amount.
+ Radiosity color.
+ and more.

Unlike ue3, it can be generates also vertex and geometry(dx10) shaders.

Screenshots:

A few screenshots

2010-01-05T21:00:00.012+02:00

Forward Shading:

First Demo

2009-12-23T18:25:00.007+02:00

Reference deleted. Now I'm doing a larger-scale demo.

Video from coming demo

2009-12-20T19:59:00.002+02:00

Path nodes plus character animation blending

2009-12-18T13:51:00.001+02:00

Around Of Level 3 (Captured video)

2009-12-17T21:58:00.006+02:00

Around Of Level 2 (captured video)

2009-11-22T17:05:00.001+02:00

Streaming

2009-10-23T12:29:00.002+03:00

Successfully implemented texture and mesh streaming,
significantly reduced the cost of memory,
the game world can now be much larger and detailed!

Screen-space global illumination

2009-08-21T20:47:00.005+03:00

Продолжается разработка Realtime Global Illumination, вот неcколько скриншотов, некоторые идеи взяты отсюда http://diaryofagraphicsprogrammer.blogspot.com/2008/06/screen-space-global-illumination.html

Shader-Art Contest?

2009-06-30T21:53:00.008+03:00

It's here http://www.gamedev.ru/code/forum/?id=119726

My first screenshots:

Particle System (captured video)

2009-06-28T15:38:00.005+03:00

I prepared a short video clip, which demonstrates some features of the particle system in my engine

RealTime Radiosity

2009-04-24T14:07:00.004+03:00

Вчера встроил realtime radiosity в движок. Может не совсем radiosity, но все же.Для его работы не нужные какие-либо дополнительные расчеты. Алгоритм одинаково работает как со статической так и с динамической геометрией.

Вот первая небольшая демонстрация данного освещения в действии.
Но это далеко не окончательный вариант.

Video: round of level

2009-03-02T01:10:00.001+02:00

В другой раз постараюсь сделать видео с лучшим качеством :/

Update of engine features

2009-02-23T00:49:00.005+02:00

Engine features updated in a first post:

http://whatdreamswaycome.blogspot.com/2008/05/features.html

Три скриншота с рабочих уровней

2009-02-16T23:49:00.007+02:00

Работа продолжается, вот несколько скриншотов. Просто показалось красиво, особенно с далека. DOF делает свое дело :)

My Variant of Light Pre-Pass Renderer

2009-02-14T14:00:00.011+02:00

About Light Pre-Pass Renderer you can read here:

http://diaryofagraphicsprogrammer.blogspot.com/2008/03/light-pre-pass-renderer.html

I like this idea, but I don't like reading normalmap in depth/normal pass.

My idea to store light directions multipled withN.L, without normalmap reading.

Geometry pass to MRT(R16F, R8G8):
In R16F we write linear depth:
Out.Depth = In.PositionViewSpace.z / zFar;
In R8G8 we write view space normal:
Out.NormalXY = 0.5 + 0.5 * mul(float3(0,0,1), TBN).xy;

R16F we need for fast post-process effects speed.

Then lighting pass:
Render light volumes to MRT (A16B16G16R16F, A8R8G8B8)
Read depth, normal;
Compute LightDir, LightAttenuation and N.L;
Out.Dir = LightAttenuation * LightDir * N_dot_L;
Out.Color = InLightColor * N_dot_L;

Then color geometry pass to a A8R8G8B8:
Read LightDir, LightColor from LightDirBuffer and LightColorBuffer;
Compute N.LightDir, R.LightDir;
And final light geometry;
++ Dont need read normalmap in depth/normal pass;
-- Problems only with specular when crossings more then 2 lights;
Your opinions?

Here is some results:

Editor for animations blending

2009-02-01T21:31:00.000+02:00

In English:

Editor for animations blending is practically ready.

Now to mix up animations simpler simple. For one object can play
quite different animations of his different parts (or for separate bones), with different there is speed, in any combinations.
For example, a protagonist can simultaneously run, shoot, throw a grenade.
These animations are created separately from each other.

It is possible to manage all of this process from a scripting language or visual logic editor.

Need here yet morfing and IK :)

И на русском:

Практически готов редактор для блендинга анимаций.
Теперь смешивать анимации проще простого. Для одного объекта могут играть
совершенно разные анимации различных его частей (или для отдельных костей),
с разной скорость, в любых комбинациях. А еще костями можно двигать и без анимации.

Например, главный герой может одновременно бежать, стрелять, метать гранату.
Причем эти анимации созданы отдельно друг от друга.

Всем этим процессом можно управлять из скриптового языка или ректора визуальной логики.

Как бы сюда еще морфинг добавить с IK :)