inspired by the nice looking (but flat) outdoor scenery in oblivion, i decided to briefly give my game a rest and throw my friemel stuff into a single app. since im moving house tomorrow im posting what i have now instead of polishing it off. this prolly wont work on ati cards (requires opengl2.0 and 4096x4096 texture support) observations - shadows were just quickly thrown in, im implementing LispSM. theres a single shadowmap of 16bit 4096x4096 thus u will need a decent card (prolly 128mb required, my 128mb card cant do 4096x4096@24bit pity cause itll solve a lot of the zfighting issues) - the terrain is not casting shadows, this is due to zfighting in my hacky implementation. this results in some visual errors eg the rocks shadows floating in air. - the grass is not casting shadows, this is due to it making the grass an extra ~30% more expesive cpuwise to calculate - shadows are only cast from onscreen objs thus you may see the shadows flicker when the shadowcasters are offscreen. - sometimes things that are onscreen get culled? i dont know why, some BB's are failing the BB vs viewfrustum test for some reason. i havent had time to look at solving this yet. - this is using an old version of the bollux engine which is more tuned for lots of lights + not a sungle light (the sun) like here. - i believe i can improve the various algorithms performance by 50-100% - whilst this runs pretty slow on the pc, its designed more for multiple cores (with say the cell i see no reason why it cant hit 100fps with heaps more grass, trees etc + also double the draw distance ) - all artworks done by me, so is pretty quickly done, looks a bit cartoonish. - landscape size == 1square km, point of view ==1.8 meter above terrain http://www.filefactory.com/get/f.php?f=8082e998502a67c2c911d2a4 first time u startup the program it may take a minute or so. keys mouse/movement, w/wireframe, s/skeltons, space/stop sun moving. ill upload a linux version if anyone wants. zed

You didnt include SDL.dll, and I'm too lazy to go find it.

And your link linkified for the lazy

couldn't create the_log_file.logcouldn't create the_errorlog_file.logentering mainFriday 31 March 2006 06:30:29..[3] starting program..[3] initializing SDL videoSDL window initializedsetting up game options**ERROR**[458] no options.txt file..[458] initializing bogus SDL openGL window..[1234] freeing sdl surface------ CPU info ----------RDTSC:    1MMX:      1MMXExt:   03DNow:    03DNowExt: 0SSE:      1SSE2:     1AltiVec:  0..[1235] initializing SDL window..[1235] video mem: 245MBasking for videomode 1024x768@32..[1235] compiled with SDL version 1:2:9..[1235] running with SDL version 1:2:9resizing window from (1024,768) to (1024,768)..[1302] initializing rendermanagerinitializing openGL-- unsupported opengl extensions --the graphics card doesnt have the necessary capabilitys

pentium m1.6, 512mb, 9700ati, 40gb

Some screenshots for those of us with ATi cards would be nice...

sdl ( i thought most game developers would have this on their HDs ) can be gotten here
http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.9-win32.zip 100kb download
heres an image, though this is something that has to be seen in motion.

Quote:i noticed some bad lighting (long strips/lines of darkened vertices) in some places. I think that's a problem with the accuracy of your normals/heightmap

yeah it must be the normalmap as theres no vertice lighting. i used nvidia normalmapper to make it.

Quote:Noticed some minor problems in the shadowing of rocks and frustum culling (rocks disappearing at 10 meters in front of me)

the shadowing i can make better (it wasnt a focus for this demo so i just quickly threw it in) but yes the rocks disappearing is a bug, which ill solve when i get time. (im moving house today + may not have internet access for a while, which not so bad and since im moving to a town i can get broadband, or at least nz's equivilant)

That is sweet...