Animated Fur Demo

[BlindSide]

Omg that is so awesome I was just thinking of grabbing the rendermonkey shader and converting it to irrlicht...

[sio2]

Hmm is render monkey being updated anymore? im with version 1.6 and i only have the static fur demo.

I'm using RenderMonkey 1.62. Open a workspace and navigate to the examples\gl2 folder. The OpenGL fur demo is in there.

[omaremad]

I did have that demo, but ofr some reason i only say the static dx version.

The flowing one hypnotising but was reallly slow. So i thought of implementing fur as a postrpocessor rather than the traditional polygonal shells which eat up both transform and fillrates.

here is a pic of my experiment


I still have to pack vectors properly (to retain negative values when they are squished down render targets) so thats why the effect looks weird.

[omaremad]

i still havent done the correct normal packing (wont matter much since im using normals in viewspace (so not much negative vectors).

Turns out its another variable i needed to tweak. Here is a test on a mesh with very sharp edges to test for artefacts.



I hope the nice blur isnt due to mipmapping

[omaremad]

My postprocessor method proves to be really good at massive scenes as its fillrate dependent stage is only as big as the screen resolution rasther than how big/hairy the scene is!

I also manged to add some cheap HDR on it through one extra add operation only!

The screens are blurry sorry but i think realtime terragen is now a bit closer to reality!!!!!

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8775 ... ed3tf6.jpg
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1896/untitledqp3.jpg

[sio2]

That fur would make some great grass.

[ErUs]

another release of omars super blur 4000 shader

[omaremad]

Its meant to be blurred (I have to use higher res rendertargets) anyway... just think of it as DOF.