New BGE Features

[mokazon]

Hello there!

Recently, martinsh and I have been working on adding some new features to the BGE. We are calling it the Candy branch.

Implemented Features:

• Subsurface Scattering
• Area Lamps
• Logic Connector Highlighting
• Mipmapping option per-texture

In progress:

• Composite nodes in realtime
• Parallax mapping
• Volumetric Lights

Some other things that we have planned:

• Volumetric Shadowing for Volumetric lights
• Environment cube-mapping
• Scrolling texture coordinates in material node editor
• World normals in material node editor
• Extra uniform inputs for 2D Filters
• Sky and Atmosphere
• Fog volumes

If you have any other ideas, please share them with us.

Screenshots:
Area lamps:

SSS:

Logic Brick Connector Highlighting:

At the moment, the SSS isn’t highly accurate (Object thickness doesn’t affect it). After harmony is released, I will work on getting thickness to affect it. (To calculate thickness, I need to get depth buffer from a lamp, which means all lamps have to have shadow buffer)

The area lamps, on the other hand, are highly accurate.

Download(Graphicall):
Windows
Linux
OSX

Patch:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1860288/BGE_patch.patch

Please note, the build may not be perfectly stable right now.

Please donate to help development:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=MQ7GW37LCC7HA&lc=US&item_name=BGE%20Candy%20Branch&item_number=CandyBranch&currency_code=USD&bn=PP-DonationsBF%3Abtn_donate_LG.gif%3ANonHosted

-Mokazon

[OTO]

Particles?
Good old basic particles!
With Interface to choose the type and amount and other settings!

Very nice screenshots by the way!

Bye

[andre1204]

Guys you are all amazing!! I can’t believe BGE will have another great update! Man, I cant stop thanking you!
Congrats mokazon, martinsh, moguri and kupoman, you’re amazing!
And my suggestion:
I would say refraction/reflections, but you already mentioned it. Then, I think something important is artist-driven Tone-mapping. That would be reaally cool, even more working together with the new HDR from moguri/kupoman. And what about volumetric lights? xD

And I tested your build, but I receive a " missing iconv.dll" error message.

[C.A.ligari]

Wonderful Addition – having SSS without massive Node Setups is a great Advantage, and even with Presets!
Even if it is not yet accurate (not that I knew, but if you say so…) it is still already a good Thing, it looks as if it was working pretty flawlessly. :]

[GackToActivity]

Congratulations Mokazon,its people like u that the blender community needs here!!
Gud job for all the involved ppl!!!
Keep bge growing please ^^

[mokazon]

thanks guys!

OTO - good idea, I’ll look into it.

andre - volumetric lights would be good…

I updated the build, and it should have iconv.dll now

[AlanR917]

the only thing i want different in the BGE is the ability to support more rigged characters at one time

[SolarLune]

Great to see the BGE’s gotten work, and impressive work. Could you possibly upload a screenshot without the SSS on? It’s hard to see.

For a request, I’d say either:

1. The ability to set which batch objects are drawn in, or
2. The ability to merge and separate meshes.

Those would really open up possiblities. Anyway, great work!

[Ace_Dragon]

Wow, I personally didn’t see this coming, but I’m really liking what I see here.

The very fact that we have Mokazon (who is developing a game) is working with Martinsh (the graphics guru) on BGE development projects can only be a great thing, next thing would be to sign up for the developer mailing list to negotiate a solid timetable for the inclusion of this and the remaining BGE features not yet in trunk after 2.63 (due to 2.63 itself focusing on Bmesh).

[ndee]

Wow… Awesome mokazon and martinsh!
I think this is one of the best combination of developer/artists that we can have! I am playing with your build already!
Great!
My personal favorite of your todo list is the composoting notes in realtime! I have wanted this for some time now! I would love to see this feature!

Thank you so much for your contribution!

EDIT
Just tested the sss feature! Works good already, and can give nice results! But I think the awareness of how thick certain areas are would be a very usefull! But as you said, this is a target for future developement!

[AniCator]

I suggest you add support for FBOs for use in shaders. FBOs and downsampling.

[agoose77]

FBO support is included in Harmony (i beleive)

[martinsh]

Hi guys,
I am very excited to finally hardcode the stuff I have done in past years into Blender, so the shaders are much more accessible to everyone without having to use custom shader scripts. Mokazon inspired me to take a deeper look into source of Blender.

So, I recently noticed that Blenders area lights does not seem to work in GLSL viewport, so I more or less copy/pasted an implementation arkano22 did a while ago.
source: http://www.gamedev.net/topic/552315-glsl-area-light-implementation/
It went through a heavy modification though.

screenshots:

in Blender UI

directional neon tubes

cheap GI with area lights:

sharp specularity

glossy

only diffuse color

only specular color

blends:
for area lights build:
HERE

for regular 2.6 (implemented as a custom shader, viewable only in game engine):
HERE

spacebar rotates the cornell box
area light and SSS build for OSX coming soon.

Edit:
I have already started implementation of volumetric lights (enabled by “halo” button), but unfortunately they are not visible when nothing is in background. Thats just the way thay work - they need a mesh behind them to be visible.

[Elfaz_Blend]

Awesome…!!:eek::eek:

Test Scene Area Lamp & subsurface scattering :evilgrin:

Attachments

Demo_s.blend (727 KB)

[mokazon]

thanks everyone!

solarlune - updated first post with comparison on the head. It’s rather subtle though.

crumpet - parallax mapping is planned

anicator - yea I think harmony has that

[Bernardo]

wow that’s really awesome!! Bring it on guys and thank you so much!

I wonder what the community (and of course the developers ) think about having more integration with touch screens inputs and android (also, I don’t know how is the actual situation). Looking at how tablet and smartphone world is evolving I think would be nice to have this kind of possibilities.

[Crumpet]

How about glow / bloom / glare fx?

(don’t even know if this is related to this development, so pardon me if I am too far off topic)

[mokazon]

Crumpet - that would be included in the composite nodes (and much more).

[Molino]

“Composite nodes in realtime” I’m exited about this. Being able to use to compositor for realtime 2D filter effects would be amazing.

The only thing I can think of, as far as suggestions go, is a built in method for Depth of Feld. Maybe this is part of the “Composite nodes in realtime” thing? If not, implementing something for this would be nice.

Thanks, I envy your brains.
M

[andre1204]

I have already started implementation of volumetric lights (enabled by “halo” button), but unfortunately they are not visible when nothing is in background. Thats just the way thay work - they need a mesh behind them to be visible.

Can you post some screenshots, please, pleasee -
And again, thank you guys
Ah, and do we have volumetric shadows as well?