[Ambient Lighting Research]

A fresnel postprocess shader will also give ambient depth. ☺

[Update Available [beta]]

Yes, that how roughness is done, supercheap compared to gaussian blurring.

[Update Available [beta]]

BuildMipmaps() now correctly builds mipmaps for cubemaps as far as I can tell

 

This means that I can now on the fly build cubemaps with correct mipmap level in lua!

 

If this stays in, I can do an update to the substance shader stuff using generated local corrected cubemaps.

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Another thing, 2xMSAA is faster than the lowest setting on FXAA

So if you are going to do AA as fast as possible, I'd do in this order.

 

1. Nothing = fastest

2. 2 x MSAA = fastest AA doable

3. FXAA, 10-39 setting on FXAA are all faster than 4 x MSAA

4. 2 x MSAA + FXAA, best looking for highest fps.

5. 4,8,16,32 x MSAA looks good but slows down quite fast.

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Thanks for the 15% fps boost when MSAA=0 (for us on nividia)

[Environment Probes]

Yeah let me know if I can help.

I think these "free"reflections/refractions are nice to have

They only cost some texture memory to render.

Also very useful for substance support.

[Substances, metal and roughness and Leadwerks]

Parallax correction:

[Building Cubemaps In Leadwerks.]

Great stuff!

 

I've been testing using Matts' mipmap code aswell, but I added a small lua script to each reflected object, inorder to make a local cubemap (onetime render)

My main problem was getting the mipmapping correctly in lua.

[Substances, metal and roughness and Leadwerks]

Yeah env probes was exactly what I would aim for, that ontime or ondemand update of a mipmapped cubemap texture.

[Substances, metal and roughness and Leadwerks]

Yes you are probably right, but I wasn't really expecting this to be used as a mirror shader

[Substances, metal and roughness and Leadwerks]

Try Texture::BuildMipmaps.

 

This works in c++ along with opengl statements in the suggestion made here:http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/14403-request-for-cubemap-mipmap-building-to-lua/

 

But not in lua, unless we get a function like the one suggested or something that does the same.

[Substances, metal and roughness and Leadwerks]

Unfortunately it only works if we get mipmap building for cubemaps, like this into the engine :

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/14403-request-for-cubemap-mipmap-building-to-lua/

[Substances, metal and roughness and Leadwerks]

if the metallic map is all black it will not do a metallic reflection, but rather a surface plastic like reflection with no colordepth.

if you look under misc folder there is an billiard ball material as an example of this.

 

You are suppose to supply textures for all cases, under the default folder there is 2x2 pixel textures for black/white/gray if you don't have one.

 

For next iteration of this shader, environment mapping will be automatic.

[Substances, metal and roughness and Leadwerks]

And env reflection is what it is. so metals with no light on them should still reflect the environment.

[Substances, metal and roughness and Leadwerks]

oh could I have a look at the mat file? sounds like your missing a texture in a slot.

[Substances, metal and roughness and Leadwerks]

Yes it should be up now. All examples should be included.

[Substances, metal and roughness and Leadwerks]

[Substances, metal and roughness and Leadwerks]

I only need the glossy eightball/poolball example working with envmap without having it to be metallic. (upper right corner of the first figure)

[Substances, metal and roughness and Leadwerks]

Almost there, so I'll upload the addon soon.

[Relocation]

Yeah look at that sand

[2016 Plans]

Like a prefab system?

[Intro to LE Post Processing Effects]

Here are some sites to get inspiration, I use alot :

 

https://www.shadertoy.com/

http://glslsandbox.com/

http://shaderfrog.com/app

[Intro to LE Post Processing Effects]

Very nice and well done article

[Leadwerks Game Engine Reaches 10,000 Paid Users]

Congrats Josh, well done, company is going/growing well

[Vegetation Demo]

Looks great, however shadows only appear every other time I start the demo.

GTX770M