Bloom in UT?

Vagabond · Nov 20, 2008

I've found something that's really caught my interest. It's a d3d9 render (supporting pixel shader 3.0

) from the enbseries website.http://boris-vorontsov.narod.ru

It only works for Deus Ex, but seeing how it's an Unreal engine game, can't it be modified to work with UT? I've already posted there, but I'd like to here your thoughts on this.

GreatEmerald · Nov 20, 2008

http://cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com/utglr/
See the first news item.

Vagabond · Nov 21, 2008

Looks like I'll have to code it myself or force someone to do it. I'm not much of coder either. ****.

GreatEmerald · Nov 21, 2008

Hello, why don't you like C. W. Dohnal's D3D9?

Zur · Nov 21, 2008

Vagabond said:
Looks like I'll have to code it myself or force someone to do it. I'm not much of coder either. ****.

If you know someone that's capable of figuring out the C++ source let me know.

Vagabond · Nov 22, 2008

Didn't mention this before but I've already got the D3D9 renderer, just looking for a chump to help me put the shaders into UT.

Raven · Nov 23, 2008

You might want to integrate it with some native classes, so you mapper could put some kind of a trigger which will turn some postprocess effect on/of.

Vagabond · Nov 24, 2008

Well, I finally got it working.

I'll post some pics to show the "subtle" differences. The only problem is that there are some atrocious texture errors and the inability to use S3TC textures [re- fixed]. Decide for yourself. :hmm:

Vagabond · Nov 24, 2008

Here's the first of a few files, I'll keep 'em coming.

Vagabond · Nov 24, 2008

I've surmised that the strange textures might be caused by the HD S3TC texture pack. I'll have to install default UT textures to see what's what.

Vagabond · Nov 24, 2008

Here's a bit from DOM-Sesmar:

Raven · Nov 25, 2008

Awesome, can't wait to try it out. Keep up the good work

.

Do you plan to release sources too?? This way someone could extend it or port it into Unreal 1 227?

Vagabond · Nov 25, 2008

Awesome, can't wait to try it out. Keep up the good work .

Do you plan to release sources too?? This way someone could extend it or port it into Unreal 1 227?

All credit should go to Boris http://boris-vorontsov.narod.ru/, I just ported it from Deus Ex into UT. Nothing difficult about it, really. As far as sources go, can't say much...yet.

Zur · Nov 25, 2008

Raven said:
You might want to integrate it with some native classes, so you mapper could put some kind of a trigger which will turn some postprocess effect on/of.

Would there be a way to swap textures with solid colours on the fly using this approach ? It would be very useful in fan movie making.

Raven · Nov 25, 2008

Sad that S3TC textures doesn't work. Maybe take a look at Chris Dohnal D3D9 to see what's missing (http://cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com/utglr/utd3d9r10src.zip)?

GreatEmerald · Nov 25, 2008

Holy bloomster!! This looks awesome! Very close to UT3! However, the contrast is a bit too big - you can't even see the wall in Sesmar outside picture, it's all white... And whoa, bumpmaps! Ownage!
But what's wrong with S3TCs then?

Vagabond · Nov 25, 2008

However, the contrast is a bit too big - you can't even see the wall in Sesmar outside picture, it's all white...

The good thing is that you can set the amount of contrast/bloom/etc in a .ini file; thus it can be tailored to suit your own taste. There are even options that allow for occlusion and depth of field (currently, both are buggy). There are other minor inconviences as well: masked textures becoming, for a lack of a better term, "unmasked"; random crashes are also an annoyance.

keaukrine · Nov 25, 2008

Interesting, is it ready to use?

Zur · Nov 25, 2008

Oh, I'm definitely interested in DOF. I wanted to modify the renderer so it would paint greyscale levels according to distance (this can be used to create dof in video editing) but I just gave up when I saw the source code. There's a lot of stuff in there I just can't figure out.

Vagabond · Nov 25, 2008

Epic's default S3TC textures (those that came with disk 2) work perfectly. It seems that the texture errors are caused by the High-Def S3TC texxies. Masks still a problem though...

I'll put the installation files up soon, as well as the instructions.

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