OpenGL tesselation NEED TESTERS[DONE+RELEASE+DOWNLOAD]

[devsh]

who said WINDOWS? it was without an OS....

And anyway... do you want the addHighLevelShaderMaterial function to get thicker (overload)?
or do we deserve a new one?

tesselation requires 2 new stages control and hull. so you need 5 shader files instead of 3.

[hybrid]

No, the shaders should be added one by one. This was also my idea for the existing interface. But due to lack of time I added the geometry shaders the simple way. We should get free from this huge interface, though. Would also allow for better shader setup and changing later on.

[devsh]

so what kinda interface would I have to provide? I'm thinking of starting the work on the tesselation patch next week. (I want to add onto the bump mapping example with a 4rth option of tesselation)

[devsh]

ok... got started now

[devsh]

UPDATE+++ DONE!!! CHECKOUT MAIN POST!

now i'll be working on a steep parallax mapping+tesselation hybrid which will solve some of the problems. But now back to my game engine and I need to get tesselation in there.

[kloplop321]

It works!
I use a dual Nvidia GTS 450s, this was tested under 64 bit linux.

We had to put "#version 400 compatibility" in each of the tesselation shader files, but after that it worked.
Here's some screenshots.





It was interesting, But when moving around, there was some disfiguration as the geometry changed.

It was also 10 times slower than parallax mapping.

[devsh]

Both problems can be addressed by making a parallax Occlusion Mapping and Tessellation hybrid. Bricks are still edgy, can be smoothed slightly by PoM. Tesselation isn't needed at far distances, could be swapped for solely occlusion mapping. Occlusion mapping would still keep pixels more or less optically correct no matter the displacement (when tessellation levels change).