Scene quality

[ZioRed]

When I load a SBX scene in the code, I don't succeed to achieve the same quality as the same scene is rendered in the editor expecially for the shadows.

 

This is a portion of the scene rendered in the editor:

 

This is almost the same portion rendered in the client code:

 

The code I used to load the scene is the following:

 

TBuffer gbuffer = CreateBuffer(AODO_GAME_DEF_WIDTH, AODO_GAME_DEF_HEIGHT, BUFFER_COLOR | BUFFER_DEPTH | BUFFER_NORMAL);
TBuffer lightbuffer = CreateBuffer(AODO_GAME_DEF_WIDTH, AODO_GAME_DEF_HEIGHT,BUFFER_COLOR | BUFFER_DEPTH);

// Set graphic quality
SetTextureQuality(1);
TFilter(1);
AFilter(4);
fw.renderer.SetBloom(true);
fw.renderer.SetHDR(1);

DirectionalLight light;
light.Create();
light.SetPosition(Vec3(0, 1, 0), GLOBAL);
light.SetRotation(Vec3(44.9999924,34.9999924,2.14186755), GLOBAL);

Scene scene;
scene.Load("abstract::mappaprova2.sbx");
scene.SetType(2);

fw.main.GetWorld().SetAmbientLight(Vec3(1));
light.SetColor(Vec4(0.15));

 

EDIT: the SBX scene contains the environment Ambient entity, you can download the scene here.

[Canardia]

You need to enable terrain shadows.

The terrain is a child of the scene entity.

[ZioRed]

You need to enable terrain shadows.

The terrain is a child of the scene entity.

I suppose you're talking about calling SetShadowMode(1) to the terrain entity (or not? I already tried calling that method on the character which is of Mesh type but it don't appear with shadow on the body as it seems in the editor using the crawler sample GMF), so I tried to reproduce the GetFirstEntityByKey function of Gamelib into LEO (that I like more than procedural calls) but I fall into access violation errors.

 

The following are how I wrote them:

struct TKeyData
{
str key;
str value;
Entity result;
};

int _stdcall GetOneEntity(Entity e, TKeyData *data)
{
int i = 0;
if(NULL==data->result)
{	
	std::string s;
	s = e.GetKey(data->key, "nothing");
	if(s==data->value)
	{
		data->result=e;
		return 0;
	} else return 1;
} else return 0;
}

Entity GetFirstEntityByKey(Entity e, str key, str value)
{
TKeyData data;
data.key=key;
data.value=value;
data.result=NULL;
e.ForEachDo((BP)GetOneEntity, (BP)(TKeyData*)&data,ENTITY_MODEL);
return data.result;
}

 

then I tried to call:

Terrain terrain = (Terrain)GetFirstEntityByKey(scene, "class", "Terrain");

 

but the client stops giving the access violation on the last line of GetFirstEntityByKey ("return data.result")... I'm doing errors somewhere?

[Canardia]

With GameLib you can just do SetEntityShadowMode(scene.scene.terrain,1); when using scene.LoadMap() instead of LoadScene().

[ZioRed]

I have tried to to use Gamelib but with no success to achieve the editor graphic quality:

 

game.scene.LoadMap("abstract::mappaprova2.sbx");
AmbientLight(Vec3(1));
EntityShadowMode(game.scene.terrain,1);

 

Can someone try to achieve it and post me the code please (using the map linked in the topic and possibly using standard LEO) so I can learn what I'm doing wrong?

[Josh]

Neither image shows terrain casting shadows, so that is not an issue. I don't see any lighting being rendered at all in your second image.

[Canardia]

AmbientLight(Vec3(1)) is for sure wrong, try rather AmbientLight(Vec3(0.1)), or whichever setting you have in Editor.

I use usually AmbientLight(Vec3(0)), since I want also completely black areas in my scenes. Then I just add some pointlights where I want some light bouncing from the directional light.

[ZioRed]

Well I changed something as suggested and now the code is the following:

 

TEntity light = CreateDirectionalLight();
RotateEntity(light, Vec3(45, 35, 0), 0);
LightRange(light, 500);
SetShadowmapSize(light, 1024);
SetShadowDistance(light, 6, 0);
SetShadowDistance(light, 20, 1);
SetShadowDistance(light, 100, 2);
AmbientLight(Vec3(0.6));

 

But the result is the following:

 

As you can see it is still darker as regards to the editor:

 

Particularly regarding the "white" light on the mountains. What am I still doing wrong?

[Canardia]

Maybe you have Bloom and HDR enabled in Editor?

[ZioRed]

Maybe you have Bloom and HDR enabled in Editor?

Nope, I already disabled all effects in the editor.

[Canardia]

Too much guessing, maybe you could post the terrain files and sbx file.

[ZioRed]

The downloadable map RAR in the topic contains the .SBX, .DDS and .RAW, it should be all: download here.

 

Thank you in advance and sorry, I'm trying to code my first game at all

 

PS: I'm almost thinking to ask for hire (pay per hour) someone from the community to help in this first times until I good understand how to play with the engine by myself.

[Canardia]

I get the same result as in Editor:

 

#include "gamelib.h"

int main()
{
Game game(CREATENOW);
RegisterAbstractPath("c:/program files/leadwerks engine sdk");
game.Initialize(800,600);
game.scene.LoadMap("abstract::mappaprova2.sbx");
TPlayer player;
player.Create();
game.scene.player["joe"]=player;
game.scene.SetCurrentPlayer("joe");
while(!KeyHit())
{
	game.scene.Update();
	game.scene.Render();
	game.scene.Flip();
	game.MouseLook(game.scene.cam);
}
}