Kick Ass Water Effects!

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Does OGRE have superior water effects?

Poll ended at Thu Aug 21, 2003 9:33 pm

Yes. I havent seen this done better before!
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Naaah, there's many apps out there that do it better.
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4%
Not bad, but nothing to get excited about.
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39%
Dunno...I just like to vote on polls...
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17%
 
Total votes: 23
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Kick Ass Water Effects!

Post by SpannerMan » Fri Aug 01, 2003 9:33 pm

Ive just seen the new water samples running. Wow! That's just really, really cool :o

The screenies dont do it justice. I don't think I have seen many commercial games with better water effects than these...
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Post by Golthar » Sat Aug 02, 2003 12:06 am

Yes, the water looks great :)
Just wait until there is more support for CG and shaders in general *drooling smiley*
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Post by eru » Mon Aug 04, 2003 9:58 am

As an author i will only say this water would rule like maybe 5 years ago. Now, with shaders on all modern GPUs it's really nothing impressive.
But thanks :)
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Post by Guest » Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:16 pm

Actually Ive never seen water effects as good as that in any commercial game but thats probably because it takes up alot of CPU and there would be nothing left for the game if it relied extensivel on that method of creating ripples/waves etc.
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Post by eru » Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:25 pm

Anonymous wrote:Actually Ive never seen water effects as good as that in any commercial game but thats probably because it takes up alot of CPU and there would be nothing left for the game if it relied extensivel on that method of creating ripples/waves etc.
Actually, the code is extremely simple - if I turn off water animation it doesn't change the rendering speed...
So it's rather number of polys that matters.
Anyway, imagine using VertexShaders for geometry with e.g. dot-3 bump mapping for small ripples and pixel shaders for rendering refraction... :)
Oh... I have to try adding bump3 to Water :) God: could you please make day few hours longer for some time? :)
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Post by God » Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:47 pm

er00: i shall answer your prayer
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