ode to oblivion

zedzeek · 2006-04-10T04:27:49

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

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Started by zedzeek March 31, 2006 02:20 AM

11 comments, last by zedzeek 18 years ago

Moe

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March 31, 2006 01:50 PM

That does look pretty neat. How long did it take you to do that?

I was wondering how long it would take before one of us got inspired by Obivion and tried to make something like it...

Moe's blog/devlog

xanin

433

March 31, 2006 03:18 PM

Crashes. Standard windows 'has encountered' an error message.

couldn't create the_log_file.log
couldn't create the_errorlog_file.log
entering main
Friday 31 March 2006 13:18:44
..[0] starting program
..[0] initializing SDL video
SDL window initialized
setting up game options
**ERROR**[121] no options.txt file
..[121] initializing bogus SDL openGL window
..[331] freeing sdl surface
------ CPU info ----------
RDTSC: 1
MMX: 1
MMXExt: 1
3DNow: 1
3DNowExt: 1
SSE: 1
SSE2: 0
AltiVec: 0
..[331] initializing SDL window
..[331] video mem: 124MB
asking for videomode 1024x768@32
..[331] compiled with SDL version 1:2:9
..[331]

-*- The Burning Eye is back!

zedzeek

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April 10, 2006 04:27 AM

new + improved version at
http://www.filefactory.com/?14d5c4
keys 1-6 turn things off

will only work on nvidia cards that support opengl2.0

Captain Courgette, eat more veg

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