Reality Factory

I was just writing a blog post for the first time in months and remembered how it all began, and was surprised to see that the reality factory community is still active! I was expecting an abandoned website when i googled for it. Well, now that I know that you're still here, I thought I give a sign ...

http://wunderwerk.blogspot.com

it's not online yet. i will however setup a temporary site with in-development screenshots and videos asap, at http://www.vexator.net.

thanks for the kind words

yeah i have been thinking about that as well. i'm definitly not gonna release it as open source - i have great respect for people spending months of hard work on their software and then gving it away for free, but i'm not one of those. i'm going to use this engine in my wunderwerk game creation ...

my last post i've finished reflective/refractive water, now I'm gonna build a test level and record a video.



same with nearly opaque water:

all the models and textures are

Direct X 10 by any chance?

no need for dx10.. the engine runs under opengl, so it offers the same functionality on all operating systems. no need for vista.

another update, this time with (real!) hdr bloom and depth of field. oh and md5 animation support.



same scene, bloom turned up:

they're stored as greyscale; it's still very large, i know. but you can use smaller resolutions, 1024 or even 512 still look fine
yes i upload the whole mesh once at startup, so i only have to send the relevant matrices to the shader each frame.

thanks for the nice comments

soft shadow mapping - on this screenshot there are two light sources with 4096² shadow maps and a 3x3 blur kernel. even works with parallax mapping (hardly noticeable on this screenshot though). plus, animations are now exclusively computed on the graphics card (by a vertex shader).

i'm still ...

doom 3 import, complete with normal and specular maps & parallax mapping on the floor:

first gui elements.. panels, text areas, buttons

soft stencil shadows not perfect though, i'm working on it

- offline -

there is no difference between actor and level geometry, so yes it's possible. i simply didn't have a bump map for this model.

didn't have much time lately, but finally found some time to work on: skeletal animation, directly loaded from a milkshape file.

http://www.vexator.net/vxengine/skeletal_animation.jpg

besides dozens of bugfixes, there are four main features still to be implemented - a particle system, ODE ...