Screenshot of the Month March 2011 [Winner announced!]

ChaiRuiPeng · Post by **ChaiRuiPeng** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:26 pm

Murloc992 wrote:
viejodani wrote:This is for the early stages of development. but after suffering with Panda3D and it's physics, I switched to Irrlicht.

This is a screen of a stage of our open source game Smash Nation, based on on Melee and Brawl

I'm not the owner of the project. I'm the lead developer.

this is the main page

http://smashnation.net/
Damn my Super Smash Bros. Clone project with server->client, online physics and kirby with a trollface on it pales against that.

My first entry:

Super Smash Bros. Clone net test:

Btw, the performance is around 500 fps normally, but that time I have ran 2 clients and a server simultaneously.

nice. what networking resources are you suing?

Murloc992 · Post by **Murloc992** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:35 pm

ChaiRuiPeng wrote: nice. what networking resources are you suing?

Thanks! :3

If you mean the library then it's irrNetLite and if you mean the bandwith, I don't actually really know, since it depends on movement intensity but it shouldn't be higher than a few kilobytes per sec on full motion.

viejodani · Post by **viejodani** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:00 am

Murloc992 wrote:
Damn my Super Smash Bros. Clone project with server->client, online physics and kirby with a trollface on it pales against that.

you're more far away. I have to move all resources from Panda3D and I still am organizing the code to make it modular.

nice project, by the way. I will use SFML for audio and network code.

the new screen will be posted soon

ent1ty · Post by **ent1ty** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:25 pm

Can i still submit? If so,

Name: Teh deferred rendering on da Island

Edit: i uploaded a second screen. There was irrEdit running on background in the first one, so the fps was kinda poor.

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:38 pm

@entity: I can barely see whats there.(I mean I can't tell if its good or not).

ent1ty · Post by **ent1ty** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:30 pm

Well, i guess you can appreciate the screen only if you know at least something about deferred rendering.

Radikalizm · Post by **Radikalizm** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:49 pm

ent1ty wrote:Well, i guess you can appreciate the screen only if you know at least something about deferred rendering.

It's just showing a high amount of dynamic lights, which is common in every deferred renderer

Although your screenshot has a nice mood to it, it could use a skydome and/or some background geometry

Also, a deferred renderer gives a lot of possibilities for post-processing, so why not show off those capabilities?

ent1ty · Post by **ent1ty** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:54 pm

It's work in progress. Don't worry, both parallax mapping and post processing is planned

It's been in development since December 2010, and on hold for about two months. So like a month of real development

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:05 pm

Well, i guess you can appreciate the screen only if you know at least something about deferred rendering.

Well I don't think that something should win just because its using a "complex" technique, normal viewer would just see random lights in the scene.
You should instead create some sort of level that could use it to make it more appealing.
Not trying to flame you, just my opinion.

Luben · Post by **Luben** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:56 pm

Just a random thought regarding the rules; would an animated gif count as one or many images..?
Actually, is there any reason not to allow short sequences in the monthly competition, except for it being named a screenshot competition?

ent1ty · Post by **ent1ty** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:10 pm

serengeor wrote:
Well, i guess you can appreciate the screen only if you know at least something about deferred rendering.
Well I don't think that something should win just because its using a "complex" technique, normal viewer would just see random lights in the scene.
You should instead create some sort of level that could use it to make it more appealing.
Not trying to flame you, just my opinion.

Well the problem is, i'm not an artist, so i can't create some nice level. And since this is a coder's forum, i though implementing a nice technique would be good enough.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:23 pm

No, for this contest please only screenshots, and only one shot per project and month! For video contests we could ask strong99 to set up some quarter-yearly short video contest maybe?!

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:18 am

ent1ty wrote:
serengeor wrote:
Well, i guess you can appreciate the screen only if you know at least something about deferred rendering.
Well I don't think that something should win just because its using a "complex" technique, normal viewer would just see random lights in the scene.
You should instead create some sort of level that could use it to make it more appealing.
Not trying to flame you, just my opinion.
Well the problem is, i'm not an artist, so i can't create some nice level. And since this is a coder's forum, i though implementing a nice technique would be good enough.

I understand that as I'm not a good artist myself, but this competition should be about nice scenes instead of just random things, you could have just used some freely available models/scenes and used your deferred renderer there, that would make it a lot better for this competition

hendu · Post by **hendu** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:30 am

As someone who doesn't know much of the deferred pipeline, all I see in entity's pic is the lack of anti-aliasing.

Radikalizm · Post by **Radikalizm** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:05 am

hendu wrote:As someone who doesn't know much of the deferred pipeline, all I see in entity's pic is the lack of anti-aliasing.

Hardware AA is impossible in deferred pipelines, so a not so elegant solution like Quincunx AA is needed

Also, the lack of AA in that shot is barely noticeable to me