Real Relief

[www.sibvrv.com]

Would it be difficult to apply a masked reflection map to a relief mapped surface?...

very easy

That would be amazing... Imagine, a texture with metal pipes on a brick wall, some parts of the bricks are wet because of leaky pipes.. the pipes are mostly shiny but near to the joints they're corroded. All of this with 2 polygons, 3 textures, 1 environment map (if not calculated at runtime) and a load of processing and if done well, almost photo realistic levels.

Do you want to create levels and models for my games with your design ?

[jasonf]

quick mockup of pipes... it's a little jagged, but it looks ok

[Huehnerschaender]

Personally, I am VERY impressed of what you visually present out of a simple 2D texture. I would never say that the effect you show is too big and that it does not fit to the natural look of something. Rather than that I have to say that the effects are absolutely awesome. Making this 3D look out of a 2D picture is awesome. You show the extremes of what is possible I guess.... lowering the visual effect is just a thing of tweaking I guess.

Bumpmapping is one thing (and I understand it!), but this.... I don't know how you make the things look like this when they are viewed from the side.... they look like the 3D mesh is build out of the picture...... Could you explain the texhnique a little more?

Greetings,
Dirk

[www.sibvrv.com]

quick mockup of pipes... it's a little jagged, but it looks ok

very nice modification

[savage]

quick mockup of pipes... it's a little jagged, but it looks ok

Noiceee!

[wodzu]

Simply an outstanding demo.

Works ~5 FPS on:

AMD Athlon 1900+
SiS 741 64 MB Ram

Being on your site I must say that you are a titan of work! Impressive!

[jasonf]

Now, can you imagine taking the Delphi Doom source (which uses OpenGL I think) and applying this relief mapping to the textures.
Sure, there'd be a mammoth effort to generate the required relief maps for the textures, but it'd look really cool.. there are lots of textures which have a lot of details on them which would come alive with relief mapping. Buttons, faces, gargoyles.. Light fixings.

[NecroDOME]

I like it! However, sometimes I got framedrops to 25. It runs normaly on 75.

How did you do it? Did you use the texture as hightmap and model the relief or did you use a fancy shader to do that for you?

EDIT:

Now, can you imagine taking the Delphi Doom source (which uses OpenGL I think) and applying this relief mapping to the textures.

Yeah, give it a try!

[NecroDOME]

k, I ripped a texture from Doomsdayhq (hires doom texture, not original). I did have to adapt the "heightmap". Here is the result:

[jasonf]

I foresee a beautiful thing starting