irrDemo

[ent1ty]

Right, so as i promised, i am working on some sort of irrlicht high-tech demo. In this thread i intend to keep you all posted.
The work on this started on 8.12.2010

Newest screenshot



What is already implemented?

• Terrain texture splatting
  Cheap water

What is to be implemented?(high priority)

• Deferred rendering
  Normal mapping
  Water diffraction

What might get implement?(low priority)

• Parallax mapping
  Post processing
  Global illumination from skybox

How will the demo scene look like?
Lots of irrlichts flying around at midnight in an everglade. Dead trees, grass etc. If a nice mascot gets done, i could put it in if the author agrees.


In order to achieve all this, i am writing a shader-based renderer which will be released under irrlicht license when the demo gets done.


If you have some nice textures you want to share, i will be very glad to put them in, the ones i have now are... well, not very nice.

[Virion]

i do agree that we need more kickass demo to showcase irrlicht's capability. this is a good start.

[fmx]

Cool, good luck with it

[devsh]

mmm.mmm. uhm uhm GI....

[Mel]

Looks nice!... may i contribute with textures? These are done by me, so they can be used freely.

http://www.mediafire.com/?utov8puh4ys7hgg

[ent1ty]

Wow, those are awesome! Thanks!

[devsh]

I had a really good grass texture laying around.. but I need to check the licence

[d3jake]

Agreed. We need a way to showcase all of the neat features implemented by the main developers, and those within the community. Plus, it would provide a central application so newer folk can say "Oh hey! That neat thing that I saw... It was in that demo, what is it?"

[ent1ty]

Just thought i would update you on the situation:

I was stuck for about two months, because of a bit stupid glsl more-or-less syntax error(who would have thought that the law of commutativity doesn't apply in glsl). Anyway devsh finally pointed out that there is a difference between (gl_NormalMatrix * gl_Normal) and (gl_Normal * gl_NormalMatrix) a couple of days ago, thanks for that.
I talked to sudi about how should the whole irrRenderer(that's the official name of the rendering addon-library for irrlicht) thing look like, and we reached some conclusions:

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- Absolutely customizable pipeline
  - You can specify your own GBuffer, light, post-process shader etc.
  - You can have custom amount of MRTs, up to four off course
  - You can either let the irrRenderer render the final image onto the 
    screen or obtain it in a texture, so you can do what you want with it

If you can think of something else, just let me know here in the topic.

The deferred rendering is finished for about 60% - i guess

[ent1ty]

Edit: oh noes... bad screen(i think)
this should be the good one