Hi and welcome to the forum.
The video of the spotlights looks promising. Could you tell us more about what the development aims for? Is it "just" an engine, or do you want to make a game? Is it a shooter or another genre? Were are the models from and will you use them later in the game?

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The guy is Marcus Fenix from Gears Of War.
The lighting engine could use more contours. It looks too smooth at the moment, but the editor and the live editing look very good already.

Thank you for your attention to the project.


Please tell us more, I do not quite understand.
I have bad english.


Thank you!
It's not just the engine, I make it as flexible as possible so that you can easily modify its constituent parts.
But now he is part of a future game.
In the thread of the project I'll post some information on the game.
I will try to properly translate into English.

Models for the tests, selected at random.

The screenshots do already look good. And the "physics chain"-video impressed me, good work

Technical question: Does/will the engine make use of OpenGL 3/4-features such as hardware tesselation? Would improve the graphics even more, of course depending on the quality of the used objects and textures.

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Yes, I use OGL 3.3.
For version 4 you should update your PC.
Now while it is important to make other functional graphics will still develop.
Everything has its time and place.

Hardware tesselation really want to try, I think in the future it will be implemented. I would really like to do it.

Now, I'd like to do animation, it is very much to conceive in this area.
I very much want to make easy (easy to use) and the correct blending of animation and with a good optimization.

The main concept at the moment, so that all could work with everything.
Ie no matter what the object, it can be secured in some way and interact with other objects of another type.
So I am glad that you liked the chain.

I think in the first game a lot will not be done, but in the future all that will not have time, I will definitely incomplete.

I hope correctly written.

Posted some information about the game itself.

What I meant was that the face contours are not defined enough. Its hard to recognize the shape of the face, because everything looks so lit. It needs more contrast.
It's maybe because self-shadowing isn't turned on on that screenshot

May be) It's development, is still in development so later I think I will correct it.

The Video with the perspective distortion is nice.
How have you done this?
I was hoping for something like this for your shader collection. (see Shadersammlung).

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Code like this:

tmpVertex = gl_Vertex

Maybe it's not quite right, but it works.

P.S.: With this method there are artifacts.

Details about the paraboloid can be read here.

Cool thank you.
How do you "handle" the artifacts? Or are they not tooo nasty

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I don't use this method.
In NVSDK was an example of the "fish-eye", there was a better method. But I could be wrong that it was in NV.
Here, too, is a variant of this technology.

Hey,

i've take a look on your new post and i have a question. Are the vertex, created by the shader, in the same plane as the triangle that bordered them? It looks like this. And i think it's not the usual way to tesselate triangles. Maybe you can calculate the y-Value of the new vertex with the dFdx- and dFdy- or the interpolate-functions. So the Mesh becomes more smooth.

greetings Bergmann

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