Quote: Original post by mikemanQuote: Original post by Sneftel
Don't be too taken aback by incredible-looking screenshots. Remember, this contest focuses on gameplay, not eye candy.
I totally agree. Guys, those screenshots are nice but don't really mean much, remember that the more you spend making the graphics, the less you spend on the actual gameplay. A game with 2D programmer art but awesome gameplay could be the winner(in fact, I'm kinda hoping this will be the case).
Quote: Original post by Sneftel
Don't be too taken aback by incredible-looking screenshots. Remember, this contest focuses on gameplay, not eye candy.
Quote: Original post by skittleo
Moe- It looks like he's using a cube map for reflection, and using a distortion map to create that wave effect on the water. I doubt he's using a normal map. That would give it a bump-mapped appearance, and really I don't see that. Let's see what he has to say though.
Quote: Original post by skittleo
... I have just been reading up on this kind of stuff.
m_pbuffer->enable(); //Should probably use the new OGL 2.0 stuff, which I don't //remember the name of right now.m_camera->LookReflect(m_waterHeight);glEnable(GL_CLIP_PLANE0);glClipPlane(GL_CLIP_PLANE0, m_reflectPlane);Render_Things_That_Should_Be_Reflected();m_reflectTex->CopyFromViewport();//Then same thing for refraction, but set the clipping plane to only render underwater stuff//Then render everything like normal and the water with a pixel/vertex shaderfloat3 dir = normalize(eyeDir.xyz); // I don't use this yet float3 normal = tex2D(normalMap, t1.xy).xyz - tex2D(normalMap, t2.xy).xyz; t0.xy += normal.xy * eyeDir.w; // Reflection coordst3.xy += normal.xy/2.0f * eyeDir.w; // Don't want to distort the refraction too much... float3 reflect = tex2Dproj(reflectMap, t0).xyz;float3 refract = tex2Dproj(refractMap, t3).xyz; col.xyz = lerp(refract, reflect, 0.7f) + float3(-0.05, 0.0, 0.05); //Just to make it a little more bluecol.a = 1.0;Quote: Original post by SneftelThat's what I'm hoping! However I still get worried that a fun little 2D game (think tetris or JezzBall) would have no change against a beautiful 3D world with great animated zombies and you with a gun.
Don't be too taken aback by incredible-looking screenshots. Remember, this contest focuses on gameplay, not eye candy.
Quote: Original post by MickePicke
I am actually not using a cube map.
I render the world three times. One extra for reflection and one for refraction. So if I add some models or a dynamic sky, they would be nicely reflected/refracted too.
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This is a quite simple shader and I haven't worked much on it. The normal map isn't as good as I want and I should also add some fresnel stuff like skittleo suggested.
