[PBR / VXRT comparison]

The "filling the room with light" kind of effect tends to happen mostly in the second bounce, I have found. Right now I am working with one bounce, because one thing at a time, but 2 bounces isn't too hard to add.

[DSC_0200]

Have you tried to run the Leadwerks editor on that?

[DSC_0200]

Interesting. Is this running with a Linux build or a windows build with proton?

[Transparency / refraction + SSR + VXRT]

Yes, The red shows pixels where the refracted coordinate is in front of the surface, so the background directly behind that pixel will be shown instead.

[Transparent roughness overlap]

You just call SetTransparent(true) on the material and the engine takes care of the rest.

[SSR + VXRT]

This scene is running at 140 FPS on a GEFOrce 1660, which means a fairly low-end card can do this at VR speeds. A better card will give much better performance.

[SSR + MSAA]

7 hours ago, Alienhead said:

Really wanting to get my hands on Ultra Engine... all these screenshots

Note to self: make more screenshots.

[MSAA]

I implemented a new FXAA shader from some code I found on ShaderToy, but it's slightly slower than just using 2X MSAA.

[SSR with roughness]

The image is offset half a texel in this shot, it's been fixed.

[Screen-space reflections]

It's ray tracing with incomplete information.

[Screen-space reflections]

The ray might be skipping a larger area than expected, but there will still be some area from that point of view that has no data.

[Screen-space reflections]

6 hours ago, Genebris said:

Why is that part missing if everything is seemingly on the screen? Yellow wall texels are missing somehow?

It's not on the screen. It's hidden behind his leg.

[Long terrain]

@WSIYes. It's a nice program.

[Frosted Glass]

9 minutes ago, Genebris said:

If I have more than a couple lights and every model is rerendering multiple times. Going to tank GPU performance, isn't it?

I think that only happens in Goldman Sachs' game engine. We don't have those problems: 

 

[Frosted Glass]

5 minutes ago, Genebris said:

Forward only? That could be a huge bottleneck.

How?

[Frosted Glass]

7 hours ago, Genebris said:

So you have lit transparent shaders now? Not like in Leadwerks?

Yes, Ultra is a forward renderer. You can have multiple layers of lit transparent surfaces.

[BC6H Compression]

You can get a lot more from https://www.polyhaven.com

[Basic Terrain Material Blending]

I will add the material displacement map into the equation. Leadwerks does this: https://www.leadwerks.com/learn?page=Tutorials_Editor_Terrain

[Who wants non-square terrain?]

@klepto2Won't be hard to add.

[Who wants non-square terrain?]

22 minutes ago, Thirsty Panther said:

Can we have caves?

In time, but that will require a voxel-based terrain system.

[Cartography Shop scene]

Screen resolutions were lower back then.

[Cartography Shop scene]

App interface:

[Crash Course 11]

That is some very masterful level design. It's very interesting to see how things go from an empty shell to a scene that looks like there is a lot going on.

[Waiting Room]

Are you using SSAO?

[Voxel Cone Step Tracing]

Actually, when you have a rougher surface the specular reflection naturally just becomes so broken up you can no longer see it.