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Water shader

Postby gral » Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:07 pm

Hello all

I am currently working on an improved water shader (but I need some testers with nvidia graphic cards now). It is not finished yet, sunlight comes from wrong direction :wink: and diffuse is still missing. The former water shader does a really good job with sunlight, but I wanted to have more 'water structure' or moving waves instead of a darkness and moving dust from far, more colors, deepness, refraction, but sunlight reflection still included of course. It seems to work here but could someone with nvidia (GL 2.0/GLSL 1.2, recent SG/FG/fgdata GIT only) send me a PM (for a download link) to check?

Thanks, gral

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Re: Water shader

Postby Oscar » Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:38 pm

That looks very cool! But I don't really know if I have the right graphics card for testing it (dunno what GL and GLSL or whatever is). I have an nvidia GeForce 9400, on a Mac Mini. I run the normal 2.0 and the Mac GIT release.
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Re: Water shader

Postby ot-666 » Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:09 pm

As soon you need an ATI (hd 5850 up to OpenGL 4.0.10151 GLSL 4.00) test subject I am up for his.

The water improvement you work on already looks very promising. Is there a way to create a reaction to the coastline or a if used with a river or lake a reaction to the surrounding area? Would be a need effect to have some slip rock or sand at the river bank.

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Re: Water shader

Postby gral » Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:35 pm

No sandbanks, but I recently got some oil ?! I have to clean up a bit.

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btw. you will not need openGL >= 2.0 and GLSL >= 1.2, but I need your machine, ot-666 :wink:
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Re: Water shader

Postby statto » Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:59 pm

That looks really good as a starting point!

The sun usually reflects on water more like a column of light, though (less scattered, more focused), especially when you're looking toward the sun.

Also, colours tend to play off each other - for instance, if you look east in the sky in the afternoon, the angle of the sun will cause water close to you to look different than the water farther away.

I don't know if this helps at all, though.
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Re: Water shader

Postby grtux » Sun Sep 05, 2010 12:40 pm

Hi, Gral

Your project regarding the Water is very interesting.
Right now we don' t have any diff in between
<name>Lake</name>
<name>Pond</name>
<name>Reservoir</name>
<name>Stream</name>
<name>Canal</name>
<name>Lagoon</name>
<name>Saline</name>

It would be nice to process each one with a specific texture/effect.

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Re: Water shader

Postby simbabeat » Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:49 am

My suggestions from grtux's suggestions:

<name>Lake</name>
Slightly dirty and a bit transparent with lots of waves in DIFFERENT directions because of recreational boat traffic.

<name>Pond</name>
Dirty??

<name>Reservoir</name>
Blue

<name>Stream</name>
Dirty with big waves.

<name>Lagoon</name>
Green?


Random yes but do you get my drift?

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Re: Water shader

Postby gral » Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:24 am

Meantime some other shader developers checked the new water shader. Unfortunately I have to say there are wrong colours on other cards, wrong math in code and other carbage. Will take some time to come back, thanks for all the feedback.

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Re: Water shader

Postby gral » Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:42 am

I have some problems with color reference with my card. On other cards the effect became too cyan. As first step I tried to fix this and I need some other 'color' testers now. You can download the new effect here. You will need recent GIT version to test it and please do not replace the files before you have a backup of the old ones. Please post some screens here (max. 800x600 px), especially with nvidia cards/drivers and different daytime and views, this will help me to improve the shader. Thanks!

Installing:
- water.eff goes into fgdata/Effects (replacing the old file)
- water.frag/water.vert goes to fgdata/Shaders (replacing the old files)
- folder 'Water' goes to fgdata/Textures (this is a new image folder in Textures, no replace)

Thanks for your help, gral

Link to the files: http://tinyurl.com/2w8b898
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Re: Water shader

Postby Intel-Qube » Tue Sep 07, 2010 5:46 pm

I have an nVidia gt 220m, I'll be happy to test your [beautiful] shaders! :wink:
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Re: Water shader

Postby Gijs » Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:00 pm

NVIDIA Geforce Go 7300

First impression: WOW
Second impression: still WOW, very interesting and lots of potential, but it ain't finished yet. When you move your "head" around or up/down for example, the reflections change unrealistic. Please note that I have limited beach experience, and even less from-aircraft experience, so I'm not sure if my opinion is that valuable...

IMO it looked quite weird on several occasions during my test. have tried to capture this in my screenshots.

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Some of these are beatifull water surfaces though. It makes flying over oceans a lot less boring than before! :D
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Re: Water shader

Postby gral » Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:22 pm

Gijs wrote:NVIDIA Geforce Go 7300
When you move your "head" around or up/down for example, the reflections change unrealistic. Please note that I have limited beach experience, and even less from-aircraft experience, so I'm not sure if my opinion is that valuable...


Thanks for your feedback. It is not finished (i.e. the view direction and reflection) but I am happy to see that you get the same colors!
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Re: Water shader

Postby Hooray » Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:27 pm

Please don't send support requests by PM, instead post your questions on the forum so that all users can contribute and benefit
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Re: Water shader

Postby gral » Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:54 pm

Hooray wrote:I am not sure if you have looked into other GLSL based approaches to do ocean rendering, but you may want to check out some of these links:

http://simon.auner.se/files/TNM084_Report_simau500.pdf
http://kineme.net/forum/Discussion/Deve ... ageTexture
http://kineme.net/Discussion/Developing ... ceanShader
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=93658


Thanks for the links, Hooray.
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btw. I will change the name from water.eff to lake.eff ASAP ;-)
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Re: Water shader

Postby Oscar » Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:21 pm

That looks very nice! Just did a small flight from KSFO and here are some shots I got:
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This is very cool already!

Maybe you could do something like a reflection image of clouds in it? I have no idea if it's possible or how hard it is, but if it's do-able, it would be very cool!
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