Real Time Glow
Someone suggested the Dystopia guys implement this in that mod's forum.
Skaffen could you do this stuff? It would look SICK MATE
Here's an extract, the conclusion:
"Large blurs and convolutions can be computed efficiently in real time on a broad range of graphics hardware. The code for processing and creating these effects is easily encapsulated into a few C++ classes or a small library. These classes and sample code are available on NVIDIA's Developer Web site, developer.nvidia.com. The effect requires additional data to specify the brightness of glow sources, and this data can be incorporated into existing texture assets, namely the texture alpha channel. The effect offers intuitive controls for the brightness and shape of the glow. The ability to apply largearea convolutions to full-screen rendering is useful for a wide variety of effects. It is key to depicting bright objects in a scene and can greatly enhance the look and quality of real-time rendering.
Screen glow is one of the rare effects that are robust enough to be easily extended for use in nearly every situation, yet it is versatile enough to allow numerous additional effects to be created through it. The final effect is subtle but powerful, and well worth prototyping in any game."
Skaffen could you do this stuff? It would look SICK MATE
Here's an extract, the conclusion:
"Large blurs and convolutions can be computed efficiently in real time on a broad range of graphics hardware. The code for processing and creating these effects is easily encapsulated into a few C++ classes or a small library. These classes and sample code are available on NVIDIA's Developer Web site, developer.nvidia.com. The effect requires additional data to specify the brightness of glow sources, and this data can be incorporated into existing texture assets, namely the texture alpha channel. The effect offers intuitive controls for the brightness and shape of the glow. The ability to apply largearea convolutions to full-screen rendering is useful for a wide variety of effects. It is key to depicting bright objects in a scene and can greatly enhance the look and quality of real-time rendering.
Screen glow is one of the rare effects that are robust enough to be easily extended for use in nearly every situation, yet it is versatile enough to allow numerous additional effects to be created through it. The final effect is subtle but powerful, and well worth prototyping in any game."
posted by stompbox at 12/06/2004 06:41:00 pm
4 Comments:
Whoa!
Nice stuff, I also want to look into blur effects for rapid movement blurring, like swords and shit leaving ghost trails when you wing them around. Think the light tralis of the brake lights on the bikes in Akira. Yeah, you know what I mean...
Problem with all of this is the coding skills neccessary. To get up to speed I think I'd need to really throw myself at it during all free time. Alternatively I should probably look at night schools, short courses etc to give me a kick in the botbot.
Well, if you're going to Mod, you might as well make it rad. Does the coding interest you or would it be too much work to learn? If it interests you, do it. I wish I could study things that interest me. Instead of learning about shit like "How to talk to junkies without getting stabbed in the head with a screwdriver 101."
Could Dad help with that coding?
Haha
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