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Changes in Glow Effect

by Alan James · in Torque 3D Professional · 02/15/2010 (1:02 am) · 9 replies

Moved from General Discussion.

I've been testing the my various packs in T3D 1.1beta and generally things have come up unbroken. (Thank goodness!) But the glow effects seem to have changed a little, most noticably in the lamp glow in the "Gold Rush" Pack. Here are a couple screens to illustrate what I'm refering to:


www.monsterpacks.com/tmp/T3D1.0.1DEMO_glow.jpg

www.monsterpacks.com/tmp/T3D1.1BETA_glow.jpg

I've run diffs against both builds and looked at the shader scripts, the glow script and all of my material scripts and nothing at all jumps out at me regarding this difference. I've ran all of the option settings from "very low" to "high" on everything, i.e. mesh, lighting, etc. to no effect.

Just curious if anyone had a clue. Thanks.
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Torque Owner Grugin
Default Studio Name
#1
02/15/2010 (11:38 am)
It looks like more a SSAO change or maybe HDR than a glow !

Associate Steve Acaster
[YorkshireRifles.com]
#2
02/15/2010 (11:50 am)
Glow seems busted on transparent objects.

@Alan - move this to the "1.1Beta1 Bug" forum.

Torque Owner Alan James
Really Really Good Things Studio
#3
02/15/2010 (12:39 pm)
@Steve, will do. Was hesitant to post in bug forum, considering the row my last post seemed to incite. =)

I've found, I believe, a few other issues -- one fairly big -- but have to do some testing still before I can confirm it.

Thanks


Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
#4
02/18/2010 (7:02 pm)
@Alan - Don't hesitate to post bugs... not your fault that people go crazy in your thread.

In that screenshot it looks like the glow just isn't there. I'll have to test that here and see.

Torque Owner Alan James
Really Really Good Things Studio
#5
02/18/2010 (7:05 pm)
@Tom, thanks will do.

You could check it out in the Gold Rush Mine Pack...check your account on monsterpacks...=P

Associate Scott Burns
GG Alumni
#6
02/22/2010 (1:23 am)
I just want to echo Tom's sentiments. I don't want any member of the community to ever feel hesitant to post anything on the forums.

Unless of course it's something that shouldn't be posted on the forums, in which case hesitate away. ;)

Torque Owner Ivan Mandzhukov
Liman3D
#7
02/22/2010 (6:35 am)
renderTranslucentMgr.cpp
At the bottom of:

RenderBinManager::AddInstResult RenderTranslucentMgr::addElement( RenderInst *inst )
{...
   // We are the only thing to handle translucent "things" right now.
   //return RenderBinManager::arStop; // OLD
   return RenderBinManager::arAdded; // NEW
}

Associate Steve Acaster
[YorkshireRifles.com]
#8
02/22/2010 (12:18 pm)
That seems to have worked nicely, Ivan. :)

Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
#9
02/26/2010 (6:46 pm)
Ok... so i tested Ivan's fix. It seems what this does is it allows meshes that have transparency to glow. A quick glance at SVN shows this code has been like this for more than 2 years... so this is a long standing bug, but it probably didn't show up until we made our change to how glow is processed.

Great find Ivan!