Hi,

well. A demo would be nice.. since we cant appreciate really well the effect from the screenshot!

greets,


Manuel Astudillo.

very cool. I'm working on something similar. Just a few questions. Does it work with models or just a plane? How many passes does this take for gf1/2 hardware and how many for gf3?

Nice work :)

Just a few days ago I was doing the same method of attenuation using 2 textures to calculate 1 - Attenuation. For generation of UV coords I used two texture matrices rather than a vertex program. Does anybody have any idea which method is faster? I'm talking when both situations are done on hardware. I'm guessing software fallback on the vertex shader will be lots slower.

-Luke

looks nice, but i think it would look even nicer if you tune down the opacity of the bumpmap a little. Oh and try to make a scene out of it, this looks rather dull and simple to the not-developer viewers out there i think.
And don't forget about the non-geforce guys, there are still to many who don't have one of those monstercards yet.

Keep it up
Emil

i dont have it. :(.. but in october it will be mine..

and then i dont need no upgrade for some time i thik AMD T-birde 1.4G 512M DDR and gf3 would hold out for a few weeks at least..

but with my luck there will be something new on the marker just when i plug it in..

:(..

the pic looks good if it does what i think. :)..

U should call it:
"plane of the edge"

It looks very primitive, though its GENIAL ! (We hope)

White color - nice background
Blue letters - nice letters
Bumpmapped plane - nice plane

Look at the letters ! They fit nicely in whole plane. The background texture is created from 2 textures, LOOK AT SHADOWS !!!! OH MY GOD !!!
INCREDIBLE !!!!

I like your per-pixel normals + per-pixel mirorring ! This creates incredible white color !!!

Black plane is flying through the white milk, looks like floating on the water !!!

Look how blue letters BUMPED-THRU+ BUMPED-OUT !!! AND ALL BUMPING IS COMBINED !!!
I would say that this is the LETTERS OF THE YEAR !!! NO! NO!
ITS THE LETTERS OF THE EDGE !!!!

You don't need a GF3 for this kinda thing ... Even a GeForce 256 can do this, even vertex shaders (just not in hardware).

- MK42

what type of values do your 2 textures have?
x^2+y^2 and z^2 or x+y and z? if first, your distance-attentuation is not perpixel but pertexel, cause during the linear filtering you loose the correct x^2+y^2 and z^2 and you get an interpolated one instead.. if so, try this:
store x,y in the first texture (0-1-range) and z in the second (0-1-range, too) then calculate this in your combiners: x^2+y^2+z^2
if the 2d texture is luminance-alpha, and the 1d is luminance,this means combiner0rgb:tex0=tex0*tex0+tex1*tex1, combiner0alpha: tex0=tex0*tex0, combiner1=unsigned_invert(tex0)+invert(tex0.a)

else, yeah, you though good about what you had to do, great

anyways, nice job. now do it with a mesh, for example a q3-model or a .3ds-file or whatever..

Although a simple plane might not be a big deal to some people, I can understand the feeling of satisfaction Shlomi must have had once it worked. And I think it is nice to see a 'simple' screenshot as an IOTD ... I mean, we should all remember those little test programs and how excited we were once we got something to work ....

Keep up the good work,

Marco

I wish MC BAXTON would post an IOTD...I'd really love to see his work since he finds problems with everything else. It must be truely amazing.

I really like that image. I wish I had a GeForce that I could play with. I think those effects are soooo cool.

T0ad

Isn't that a bit harsh seing as we have seen nothing you have done, and I saw it as an interesting little program, come on, if you must critisize him, at least make it constructive.

- Jordan

"It looks very primitive, though its GENIAL ! (We hope)"

Vitriolic, biting sarcasm, yet tastefully unintelligible.

Great work! I'm sure you've learned a lot from this project. Keep it up, man.

Biting yet weird, sarcastic yet remarkably stupid comments.

That's MC_BAXTON. As long as it's obviously humorous, I am okay with it.

Sincerely,
WHO DO YOU THINK?? GREG!!!!!

PS:

No one has used "BLINK" for a while, annoying isn't it!! :-P

Nice job! However, if you want something REALLY annoying, see if your browser still supports the "BLINK" tag

Blinking?

If not, be happy.

Thank you for your patience and attention.

Who here knows what OpenGL stands for?

Drugs...

no.

Cheers,
-Greg

nice! really nice

Hope Im not offending anyone. It's not my intention to offend people. I believe in open-mindness, which will let u survive similar comments.
In fact, letters is not bad, I can repeat it. And overall picture is NOT bad as well. Just can't see bumping ...

Greg, I like your blink tag and it makes blink all today's iotd. In fact, its blinking with 72 Hz. Thanks :)

nonsense % is LOW
freedom % is NORMAL
html is OFF

Perfect analysis skills ! You probably have a lot of practice in this field. Congrats !

But look at the whole structure of this sentence. It can be interpreted in many ways. And note that space is not wasted ! In fact, few books could fit into this sentence ! I think that's perfect example of compressed thoughts, and as u see it works far better than crappy zip or rar compression...

ha! I couldn't have said it better myself! =)

ooooh, that pic has boosted my faith in opengl once again. ALL HAIL OPENGL! BOW BEFORE IT!

Looks good!

How is this related to

TCS

?

"OpenGL" = "Open Graphics Library" of course.

OpenGL stands for Open Graphics Library

/me stands on the soap box

I'm pretty annoyed to see people bashing this. Especially those who have yet to post an IOTD themselves.

I will assume they're currently too busy to post. All their time is being taken up by trying to figure out why their "Hello, World!" program won't compile.

- Pete

Looks great man, i fine start to something BIIIIIG.
What kind of performance decrease do you notice using the registry combiners and vertex programs?

I don't think MX Baxton works on anytyhing... anytime he gets something done he just bashes himself for doing it, and points out the obvious errors and discourages himself from working on it farther :o).

Anyways, I think it's a nice effect.

Billy

Well, yes, this screenshot is VERY simple. I just experienced with that technology.

I am working on a Advanced Per Pixel Lighting Engine [APPLE - fancy name, isn't it? :) ] with some friends of mine. We have almost finished the editor. I am working on a shader editor now, hence the above screenshot. The moment I will finish writing it, I will make a rather complex scene and send it here.

Looks really great man. I like beer.

- Tim Johnson

It really is hard not to laugh.