[maddison]

Nice work HawkleyFox, I`m really excited to see your clouds in game

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Here are some sky texture:

- http://best-photoshop-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/free-cloud-and-sky-textures.html

- http://www.burningwell.org/gallery2/v/textures/skies/

- http://www.sharecg.com/v/7684/texture/High-resolution-sky-texture?division_id=6

This is some of the sky texture from L.U.R.K
- http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2KH2NJTE

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Nice looking textures

- http://mayang.com/textures/Nature/html/Clouds/index.html

- http://lostandtaken.com/2008/10/20-epic-cloud-and-sky-textures.html

[Catherine Harte]

I'm searching my jaw. I dropped it after seeing a youtube video.

PS. It looks great. Both low quality and high quality versions.

PPS. This is something I wanna see in Morrowind for a long time.
http://mgeshaderlib.50.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?p=385#p385
I hope to see a Morrowind version of this.

[Epul Kedah]

I'm searching my jaw. I dropped it after seeing a youtube video.

[Alyesha Neufeld]

I hope to see a Morrowind version of this.

Getting it into Morrowind would probably be easier, really. It's rendering engine is many times more understood than Oblivion's. Should anyone be interested in trying to use this shader for Morrowind, I'll happily hand the code to them. Seeing it in game would give me a good feel for how it will work in Oblivion; if the shader has enough performance to be even practical, or if this will end up just barely puttering along like the high-quality SSAO shader.

[Shelby McDonald]

Getting it into Morrowind would probably be easier, really. It's rendering engine is many times more understood than Oblivion's. Should anyone be interested in trying to use this shader for Morrowind, I'll happily hand the code to them. Seeing it in game would give me a good feel for how it will work in Oblivion; if the shader has enough performance to be even practical, or if this will end up just barely puttering along like the high-quality SSAO shader.

We have one example shader, projecting cloud alpha texture for use with godrays shader. We use it to mask rays and additional sun disk. Additionally we have another method called texture hooking. Where you can hook any texture in game with your custom texture and a custom shader. Not many examples are out there for texture hooking but it can be a use. (With texture hooking you can hook videos too.)

I'm very interested and I am sure we can find ways to approximate things to gain some performance.

PS. I have been reading your SSAO shader, and I saw comments about bleeding. Isn't it for color bleeding, like color bounce for indirect illumination?

[i grind hard]

Additionally we have another method called texture hooking. Where you can hook any texture in game with your custom texture and a custom shader. Not many examples are out there for texture hooking but it can be a use. (With texture hooking you can hook videos too.)

Looks like that's scanti proposed method #3 there. It shouldn't be too hard to write a new function (presumably, given MGE's codebase) that renders the volumetric shader to a DDS texture during runtime and then using that texture (set before hand if need be) to replace the game's sky/cloud texture(s). But the overhead the accompanies writing to the HDD and subsequently reading it every frame (will probably need a change made to the hook functions, as they probably load the hooked textures at load time) should be sizable.

[Auguste Bartholdi]

3. Use Oblivion's existing shader code for the clouds but instead of using the existing cloud texture you create your own cloud texture using a shader.

In all honesty, this is my personal #1 choice at the moment. I built the shader to be a modest replacement for the vanilla one, not requiring huge rewrites to the cloud rendering system. The shader is designed to use almost all the assets already available to the normal cloud shader and simply render to a flat plane in the sky. There are already two of these planes in the game, so might as well use those. I've just gotta find the code in the game where it loads the shader and it's textures, hook in a small code diversion to make it load my shader instead, along with any additional textures/data not normally available to the shader, and let it go.

I make it seem simple, but I'm sure its not...

I've aquired at least some Oblivion hacking experience after EMC, though I do realize that messing with the graphics rendering in Oblivion is a BIT more complicated than the sound/music parts... I'm sure I can manage to figure it out, though.

[Kanaoka]

One of the things I installed for OGE (it had no .esp, btw, but I don't know which exact one) did http://i946.photobucket.com/albums/ad307/Nextmastermind/ScreenShot0.jpg and it's bugging me. How would I fix this?

[Kelly Upshall]

Hi all,

a true noob question:

- after dl-ing DirectX update I`m asked where to install it, well, where to? I`m on Vista Home Premium SP2, 32 bit.

Regards, Haldir

[Killah Bee]

Hi all,

a true noob question:

- after dl-ing DirectX update I`m asked where to install it, well, where to? I`m on Vista Home Premium SP2, 32 bit.

Regards, Haldir

It more likely is asking you where to extract to. Just make a folder on your desktop labled DX or something then extract it to that folder. Once its done extracting look in the folder for the setup. Run it and it should be all good =]

[Naomi Ward]

Hi all,

a true noob question:

- after dl-ing DirectX update I`m asked where to install it, well, where to? I`m on Vista Home Premium SP2, 32 bit.

Regards, Haldir

I don't think it's asking you where to install it. I think it's asking you where to extract it. You can do this anywhere, e.g. a folder on your desktop. Then, run the setup.exe in that folder. Though, it should be a web-based installer that doesn't extract anything anywhere...

[Jessica Phoenix]

I don't think it's asking you where to install it. I think it's asking you where to extract it. You can do this anywhere, e.g. a folder on your desktop. Then, run the setup.exe in that folder. Though, it should be a web-based installer that doesn't extract anything anywhere...

.... woahh..... did I just say that? XD lol

[Rebecca Clare Smith]

Maybe something for the F.A.Q on OP:

A: After using the OBGEv2 Plugin it vanishes from my misc. items menu. Why?

Q: This happens when using COBL. If you cannot find the OBGEv2 Support in your misc. items menu you have to look in the +Options Menu from Cobl.

[Natasha Callaghan]

A shader that plays video? [img]http://static.zenimax.com/forums/images/public/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif[/img] Now that would indeed be cool. Probably kill performance for most players. but who cares? As long as it's cool.[img]http://static.zenimax.com/forums/images/public/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif[/img]



Hope the smilies show up properly by now.

[Liii BLATES]

A shader that plays video? [img]http://static.zenimax.com/forums/images/public/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif[/img] Now that would indeed be cool. Probably kill performance for most players. but who cares? As long as it's cool.[img]http://static.zenimax.com/forums/images/public/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif[/img]



Hope the smilies show up properly by now.

More like a video with a shader applied. So you can have TVs in Morrowind. I actually used it for this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v51G6kIvdWA

and later for this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5pAp1FjeKY

And one other user did this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vbhjG5UEZA

It is about you finding a good way to use it.

[Trevi]

The DOF one TESNexus doesn't make anything blurry or more focused. Help?

[Janette Segura]

The DOF one TESNexus doesn't make anything blurry or more focused. Help?

It does. It's just subtle. There's a setting to increase the effect. I forget what it is.

[Charlotte X]

Actually, it doesn't with Scanti's latest plugin (the one shadeMe linked to), as it doesn't get applied properly since it lacks a vertex shader. I'm holding back on updates since I'd actually like to get some changes made for the next release, but I'm having a crisis of sorts with the latest release of All Natural that's preventing me from working on this, not to mention RL getting in the way...

The variable is DoFAmount, or something like that, BTW.

EDIT: Would I be right in thinking that the z component of the vertex shader's POSITION semantic'd variable would be the depth, or can I not access depth in vertex shader?

[Flesh Tunnel]

It works if you add it to the shaderlist. But it is subtle.

[Maeva]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but ATM it doesn't look like the POSITION semantic actually carries any meaning, only TEXCOORD does. Am I right?

[Jake Easom]

Hello, I finally got my new video card back and now that everything is running smoothly I seem to notice that I might be getting that "Spotlight" effect from the god rays. I have the FOV set the same as what the game is, which is 75. And when I look at the horizon at some angles the rays blind me.

[Brandon Bernardi]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but ATM it doesn't look like the POSITION semantic actually carries any meaning, only TEXCOORD does. Am I right?

Correct. POSITION is used to do coordinate translations (Ob->Wrld and such). The one passed by the vertex buffer currently is already in viewspace. You'll need to use a depth sampler to access Z values in either shader.

[chirsty aggas]

Hello, I finally got my new video card back and now that everything is running smoothly I seem to notice that I might be getting that "Spotlight" effect from the god rays. I have the FOV set the same as what the game is, which is 75. And when I look at the horizon at some angles the rays blind me.

It is still not 100% accurate. So there will be some spotlight effect. Maybe in the future it can get fixed. And I have a fix for blinding rays now. Wait for the next release please.

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static const float2 texproj = 0.5*float2(1,-rcpres.y/rcpres.x)/t;static const float d=dot(f3EyeForward,sd);static const float3 sunview_v=mul(sd/d,m44view);static const float2 sunview=float2(0.5,0.5)+sunview_v.xy*texproj;

this is the code in the shader. I have one other code that doesn't produce spotlight effect but it uses a sunpos variable. I admit I don't understand what's going there, and I am open to suggestions.

[SiLa]

It is still not 100% accurate. So there will be some spotlight effect. Maybe in the future it can get fixed. And I have a fix for blinding rays now. Wait for the next release please.

Alright sure thing I was just double checking.

[Louise Dennis]

Hello all. I've been monitoring this topic for a very long time, never posted or tried it, untill just a couple of min ago. I must say that this is absolutely a great job. I don't have any real technical data to add to the discussion as of yet, but after testing it out (with very good detailed instructions from WN on the front page), I can tell you all but the SSAO has actually increased the performance of my game. I am using about 100 differant mods atm, not too many graphical ones, but still all in all I got an overall increase from loading screens, and actually my ingame invt menu has dramatically spead up too. I did however also add an SLi bridge yesterday that I had been missing for the last week (SLi was turned off while I didn't have it), but I don't think thats responcible for this drastic a change in performance. I will test further and post back results and such, but i wanted to say i completely support this mod/group of mods. Ohh I do have one "bug" not sure, but after going through the install and updates, ingame (without having gone to the ini's first) none of the values were populated, so I had to go through almost all of them and add a value the I "thought" might work so i could see the responses.

Again, Thanks all hard work coders.