Anonymous Package of Stuff (With Issues...) [APOSWI]

[Tranquility]

Hi, I'm quite new to Irrlicht but I figured I could do some messing around and against all odds, I made something work. (In OpenGl)

Anyway: It is an ANNOUNCEMENT , not the release of the package, but the results are quite neat. (When the source is clean, they will be released in code snippets, maybe )

First of all --> Toon-shading + outline (No post-processing )

For the more observant of you: I know it says "paintlevels : 2", that's... one of the issues .
Nonetheless it is still quite awesome if I may say so and because it's just some clever rendering, no post-processing is needed for the outlines and anti-aliasing is preserved .

Here is the image without the "Inkt":

I will try to smooth out the edges, but that is something of low priority to me now.

With only 1 paintlevel, you get a flat shader:


BTW: You can see the statistics, the outline does drop the fps a bit, more then I would have hoped, but it's not THAT significant.

More underway like:
- IRealisticSkyDomeSceneNode (A lot of issues)
- Improvements on IToonSceneNode (A lot of issues)
- Remake of shadows, actually, a remake of the all the light in Irrlicht
- Maybe even port all of this to Direct X (It's GLSL now)
- I don't know, maybe an entire game-engine based on "Toony graphics"

I could use some help in shaders though, maybe a guru can help me out on optimizing them a bit?

[slavik262]

Wouldn't doing the shading in post-processing give you a boost in performance since you don't have to waste multiple render calls on the same object?

[cobra]

slavik262: If you mean the toon shader, wouldn't it be better doing it without post-processing? If it was post-processing you would be rendering the entire scene and then just rendering something completely different over top of it, right?

Just inquiring.