My current "WIP"

[czar]

Looks pretty good.

I got 29-33 FPS with Nvidia 7800gs and 3Hgz p4 with 1GB

Do you think you can improve speed? It may be too low at the moment - especially when you start having to do enemy AI etc

I liked the bobbing chests. The explosions are really cool.

[WILL]

Hey Dirk, I just relized that you've posted larger screenshots than you should have.

I have a widescreen so it didn't really bother me. [size=9px](hence why I didn't notice)[/size] Can you reduce the size of the images [size=9px](you can't do it through html tags in the post, some 'smart guy' in the phpBB team decided it was a securty risk I believe :roll[/size] and post a link for the full size?

Thanks Dirk, I'd do it myself normally [size=9px](well actually, technically I just did :x)[/size] but phpBB no longer allows us to do so. The other option is to just use the image host site instead since original quality is kept anyhow.

[savage]

you can't do it through html tags in the post, some 'smart guy' in the phpBB team decided it was a securty risk I believe :roll:

I've already resized the images to 640x480 using HTML code.

[Firlefanz]

I'll try at home, screens look very good. (videos too)

How did you make the videos? Fraps?

Firlefanz

[Huehnerschaender]

Thank you Dom.

@Czar:
This is just the current state. Consider it as an Alpha of an incomplete engine There is much space for optimizations, especially the terrain drops down framerate. But I have some optimizations already in mind.

@Will:
Sorry for the big screenies
The realistic look is a thing I am working on. It depends much on some things which I am currently testing out.
As there is:
- the quality of the textures (I am making a bunch of new textures in the park (this weekend I will take a long walk with my kids through the park to get some good photos ))
- The positioning of the facings. What you have seen so far is all randomly generated and placed plants and trees. The plants are just a set of symmetric ordered facings, which of course doesn't look very realistic. So I am working on a technique to place "fields of grass" instead of just a grass plant for example. In a "vegetation field" there will be e.g. 100 facings placed with random angles in a narrow area. This will give a more realistic look then. It also may speed up things a bit, because right now every plant is an instance of a plant class.
- The trees: The current model is more than crap. Also the textures are ugly. When I have better ones I start to design trees with manually positioned facings, so that the facing don't overlap or swift in the air without a branch. Atm it is all randomly generated, which gives some not so beautiful results.
- Once I get the landscape rendered faster, I can make it a little smoother and rounder. I also will add rocks and such stuff, which will give a more realistic look. Atm there aren't detail textures for landscap, which will be added as soon as possible.

All this will make the look much more realistic.

As I already mentioned, this is just a techdemo, no demo of visual perfection.

This project is just a sample for the Asphyre community how to do special things. When I released it there, I will add the new features to get a real game engine one time.

Greetings,
Dirk

[Huehnerschaender]

Hi Firle,

yes, the videos are made using Fraps and then compressed with Windows Movie Maker.

Greetings,
Dirk

[savage]

It's a pity you're not using OpenGL, since we are starting to make some head-way into getting MacOS X support working.

[NecroDOME]

I tried the demo, It looks quit good.

FPS >35

Within the water the fps raised to 75!

GeForce 6800 (SLI was diabled)

[savage]

I got 15 FPS on my work machine, info as follows...

Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver Report


Report Date: 11/17/2006
Report Time[hr:mm:ss]: 12:28:54
Driver Version: 6.14.10.4543
Operating System: Windows XP* Professional, Service Pack 2 (5.1.2600)
Default Language: English
DirectX* Version: 9.0
Physical Memory: 1015 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 128 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 11 MB
Processor: x86
Processor Speed: 3194 MHZ
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 2582
Device Revision: 04


* Accelerator Information *

Accelerator in Use: Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family
Video BIOS: 3329
Current Graphics Mode: 1440 by 900 True Color (75 Hz)

[jdarling]

Well on my crappy Dell Inspiron 4100 I got about 8-10 FPS. Not really "playable" but it was enough that I got the jist. Looked really nice and I have to say, that if this isn't optimized yet, then its quite impressive to get that high a frame rate on this dog.

So you don't have to google:
CPU: 1.2 Ghz PIII
Mem: 384MB
GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon (running standard Windows XP drivers)
OS: Windows XP SP 2