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Decided to make a thread in the end to avoid clogging the "What are you working on" thread.
This engine is the culmination of over 2 years of work, which started about a year after I began learning C++. It's primarily a realtime rendering engine, but also has a physics engine (TrueAxis) and audio engine (FMOD). The rendering is done under DirectX9. A few basic notes: it's a deferred renderer and I've spent a lot of time making my SSAO implementation robust and fast (currently <2ms for most views).
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Rough list of visual features
Deferred lighting; SSAO; vertex skinning; smd, obj, 3ds, mesh loaders; cascaded shadow maps; multiple shadow filters: none, poisson, pcf, vsm; light probes; quad tree terrain; procedural clouds; many material shaders for surfaces like fabric and metal; level editor; terrain editor; dynamic water with 3d deformation; temporal anti aliasing; atmopsheric scattering; point light shadows
Post processing
HDR with Uncharted 2 tone mapping; bloom; depth of field with optional bokeh; god rays
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Happy to answer any questions.
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that's a really really nice engine, especially since you're using dx9, if I were to guess I'd think you'd be using dx10-11
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you might want to use havoc cloth, it'd look really nice in the map where those flags are hanging.
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Not really much extra you can do with DX10/11 except for tessellation and such. Don't believe all the rubbish that things like god rays are a DX10 thing :P. And thanks.
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well, you know that better than me I guess. I've got zero experience with dx
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Very cool. You know by using FMOD you're making it so that
a. If you ever want to charge for the engine ,you have to pay the FMOD guys a few thousand dollars.
b. If your engine users want to sell something they've made with your engine they have to pay the FMOD guys a few thousand dollars.
Also holy shit is that global illumination?
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Yeah I didn't actually know that about FMOD until recently. I intend on switching over to something else which should be easy as I have very little sound code at the moment. Thanks.
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Well. Fuck.
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Holy dog shit, Very nice!
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Very nice work with this, it looks awesome!
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This is amazing!
Awesome work on it!
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@Jallen's edit: Kind of. I just threw down some appropriate point lights. Does a pretty good job eh?
Thanks everyone else.
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Yep, looks really awesome!
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Looks absolutely fantastic. How's your content pipeline? :)
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Whoa. I was convinced they were Source 2007 screens at first with the strider and all.
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Oh it's just lovely (not :P).
I have a mesh format specced out but I really can't be bothered to write a proper Maya exporter, so I have a really basic one that just outputs an obj and then my code handles creating material data for it. It's something that needs a lot of work.
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It's better to use a widely supported (or a few) intermediate format(s) and make a converter than to make an exporter for a single modelling package IMO. I guess you could do a converter and an exporter though.
Not everyone can afford / wants to obtain Maya.
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Yeah. Perhaps fbx or something would be good, since obj is fairly limited in its support if I exported to that and then converted. The main reason I haven't delved into that kind of stuff is because it's just me using it. And really, it's not a very rewarding job a lot of the time.
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Such a cheesy name for such a sweet engine, great work !
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It's really supposed to be Nigh-T Engine =p Yeah I suck with names. Cheers!.
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TBH, despite the cost FMOD is well worth it for what it does.
Anyway, very nice work. I've always liked deferred rendering, the positives of it far outweighs the negatives.
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Try to get Valve to buy it. I'd love to play Half-Life on that.
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They have source tho.
If anything try get a job at Valve :P
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I'd suggest a better name before it's too late, go with something related to light or cleanness.
Just saying.. cause you know, before opening this thread I thought "Heh, what a silly name, probably another billionth guy who's wishing to make a next-gen game engine"
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Yeah maybe I should invest a bit of time in a name :P But most game engines have "stupid" names. Unreal? Source? :P
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A good name like Bloom.
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Need a few more 'O's I think.
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Bloom Ion?
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Shiny (Game Engine) ?
or maybe Illumination Engine
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Blooom?
May I suggest Fractal Game Engine.
Hmm. Maybe it's a bit misleading.
Anyway, it looks great!
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heavenly engine?
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SunnySideUp engine? Something that emphasizes how bright and sunny it looks.
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SunnySideUp sounds awesome :P I'll have a bit of a think and report back anything I think of. Thanks for suggestions chaps.
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GloomyEngine?
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What's your map format like, how do you partition it for speed?
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*whistles* Yeah erm, I don't have any kind of spatial structure at the moment. I'm still debating on what to use. Again it's one of those things which hasn't been much of an issue for me, because I'm gpu bound 100% of the time, so it's kind of sat by the side. Stupid, I know. I intend on writing a portal system.
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Can I ask how you manage to get to such a high level of ability in graphics programming? I mean, lit textured models is pretty much as far as I've got. How do you take a step from being able to do basics with directX to being able to do all that shader stuff and awesome things like that?
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To be completely honest....I don't know how to describe it. It's just been a smooth sort of flow if you know what I mean. I read a lot of papers nowadays, but for actually getting going with shaders I kinda just looked around for how to get one working, and from there your opportunities are suddenly opened up completely. I'm not sure of any specific resources to point you to, but if you're working with DX, the DX official samples are fantastic for getting you up and running.
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You should use this to open a company or get a job!
Really REALLY nice work!
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Spatial partitioning is kind of a big deal when it comes to optimization.
Since you seem to have a lot of experience I bet implementing an Oct-Tree won't be a problem for you.
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Yeah it is a big deal, on the CPU side when it comes to outdoor scenes. In interior scenes you can cut a lot of GPU work with portal culling, but outside you can't really use portals and such too well to cull stuff in the view frustum, so you only really save CPU time in traversing the scene. Occlusion culling is a whole 'nother matter though. I'm currently experimenting with it but it's quite tough to make it work well.
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