Screenshot of the Month September 2012 [Winner announced!]

[Strong99]

And this months winner is Sio2 with his Irrlicht DirectX11 GPU Raytracing plus FXAA anti-aliasing screenshot.

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Sio2 - Irrlicht DirectX11 GPU Raytracing plus FXAA anti-aliasing


Talos3eye - Meanest Void (WIP Title)


Stefbuet - Climbing Ball

Topic for the September screenshot entries!

Please submit here for the best screenshot for September 2012. You can submit until the 20th of September. Voting should start soon after that date.

Rules
- Only irrlicht renders allowed,
- Give images a good title and make clear what the title is,
- Make sure the image is available until the end of the competition,
- One image per project allowed,
- And some information about the project/scene,

Notes
- Please show a good quality image with a decent image size.

Rewards
- A special user rank: Competition winner

[sio2]

Title: Irrlicht DirectX11 GPU Raytracing plus FXAA anti-aliasing (SiO2)



Notes:

• Uses my own modified version of evandromillian's DX11 driver, supporting native DDS textures, cubemaps, compiled HLSL, enhanced DX11 Technique support and other additions/bugfixes.
  Anti-aliasing is via nVidia's FXAA (From the nVidia DX11 SDK). This is a simple way of performing relatively cheap anti-aliasing. Very easy to integrate, just needed the raytracing output to calculate and emit Luma. Not perfect (some strange halos around some of the spheres, for example) but easy to implement and gives good performance.
  Raytracer calculates first-hit rays, reflection rays and shadows rays. No first-hit speed-up yet.
  In the raytrace shader, rays that fail to hit anything are looked up in the sky cubemap (including reflections rays).
  The scene is held by Irrlicht as a set of sphere nodes, a lightnode and an animator on the light. Each frame, the scene is gathered together and uploaded to the raytrace shader which renders to an off-screen texture. FXAA is then applied as a post-process.
  Sky cubemap made by myself using Bryce.

[Mel]

Very neat I really like the raytracing demos

Maybe you could perform besides substractive operations and normal mapping?

[kazymjir]

Very nice inded

offtopic:
Mel, check this then (must have webgl enabled browser)
http://mrdoob.github.com/three.js/examp ... scher.html

[codetiger]

Wow, so I'll keep my screenshot for next month competition...

[sio2]

Very neat I really like the raytracing demos

Maybe you could perform besides substractive operations and normal mapping?

There are lots and lots of things I can add/improve/fix. First-hit speedup, polygons, planes, BVH, GI, and moving to a DX11 compute shader are just a few that come to mind. Work on the engine continues...

BTW I'll be releasing the demo soon. Looks nicer when the scene is animated.

[Strong99]

Don't be afraid of Sio2! You're not going to let him win by default are you? 1 day left for those awesome irrlicht screenshots!

[Talos3eye]

Meanest Void (WIP Title)


Hi my first post and just before the time limit

This is my spare time project, a little fun space shooter.
Current features:

• bloom
• bump mapping
• space physics with Newton Game Dynamics and Irrklang for Sound
• Bots with FSM and steering behaviors such as seek and flee (quite a challenge for a player) and obstacle avoidance

I wanted to wait to introduce my project until I have a real GUI and some other features, but I just wanted to keep the spirit of competition alive.
A proper presentation of my project will follow.

[sio2]

"...and just before the time limit"

The post says "Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:45 am". Strange!

[CuteAlien]

It's all about time-zones ;-)

[sio2]

It's all about time-zones

Yeah, sorry. I was merely being sarcastic that, for my time zone, the post was after the deadline.

[CuteAlien]

Ah well, would be boring without a competition. I already considered posting one of my shots, but those consist currently 99% of debug-output :-)

[stefbuet]

Competition spirit!

Climbing Ball

[Mel]

god bless the balls, the simplest physics primitive

I won't participate this month. I will show something new when i have it.

[hendu]

I'm going to have to add that to my sig...

god bless the balls