XWA, Raytraced

[blue_max]

I'm waiting for the moment when it will be possible to recreate the X-Wing93 Death Star trench run mission. We need a function to activate the animation counting the distance from the "core" when we enter the trench. This would also be useful for missions in XWA when attacking the DS2 core. I suspect you have already thought about it .

I think something like that should be possible. Especially now that I understand how on-screen objects are located in space with respect to the cockpit.

[Vince T]

Speaking of which, many games nowadays provide additional HUD info right beside the reticle. Do you think something like that would be possible?

[blue_max]

Speaking of which, many games nowadays provide additional HUD info right beside the reticle. Do you think something like that would be possible?

Maybe you'd like to start a new thread with ideas?

[Vince T]

Yeah still need to collect my thoughts on this. I'll discord you
Sorry for derailing.
Back to topic!
Move along! Move along!

[korekwerner]

I'm waiting for the moment when it will be possible to recreate the X-Wing93 Death Star trench run mission. We need a function to activate the animation counting the distance from the "core" when we enter the trench. This would also be useful for missions in XWA when attacking the DS2 core. I suspect you have already thought about it .

I think something like that should be possible. Especially now that I understand how on-screen objects are located in space with respect to the cockpit.

That sounds really promising. Thank you.
btw. raytracing works fine and I haven't had any problems with it even once. It's maybe a bit inaccurate (sometimes it loses shadows with more objects), and after installing the new gimballfix made by JeremyaFr everything seems to run smoother, but it can only be an illusion and there are no problems with the joystick and gamepad.
No light in missions after a little analysis I conclude that the order of bakcdrops with lights is important. If the mission is well prepared, there are no problems with the lights and raytracing works fine.

[blue_max]

This is still a screen-space effect. Meaning that if a mesh goes out of the screen, it will stop projecting shadows. This may cause some inaccuracies in some places. If that's not what you're talking about, please post a picture and I'll take a look.

Coming up: soft raytraced shadows anyone?

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Here I'm using the old trick of doing the effect at half or a quarter of the original resolution, to improve speed, and then I'm blurring the shadows to hide the resulting pixelation. Not only is Raytracing faster, but the results aren't that bad either.

[Bman]

Beautiful

[darklord]

Here I'm using the old trick of doing the effect at half or a quarter of the original resolution, to improve speed, and then I'm blurring the shadows to hide the resulting pixelation. Not only is Raytracing faster, but the results aren't that bad either.

That makes a lot of sense. Sounds like a win, win! Great job!

[blue_max]

Thanks! Here's a couple of videos of this effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvcB6zr6JOI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na467B8B_wQ

[Bman]

That's awesome. This also would help in the area of creating/capturing custom cutscenes.

[Forceflow]

Oh that looks really nice

[blue_max]

And it's out now, guys. Please download the latest beta to get faster raytracing with soft shadows. Soft shadows are enabled by default. To disable them add this to SSAO.cfg, at the end of the file:

raytracing_enable_soft_shadows = 0

To control how the soft shadows look, use this:

raytracing_soft_shadow_sharpness = 0..1

0: Soft shadows
1: Hard shadows

You can use intermediate values, like 0.2 or 0.7 to control the hardness of the shadows to your liking. The default is 0.2

[MechDonald]

That's awesome @blue_max!

Especially for the options, too! Thank you very much!

[rogue518]

@blue_max I think this new beta version did the trick....

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Deep Space Manufactory Facility



I checked all opts, Now it works....

Sincerely, Rogue518

[Vince T]

Geee thst old factory is ugly! Somebody should reeeeeaaaallllly do something about that! *wink* *wink*

[blue_max]

@blue_max I think this new beta version did the trick....

Oh yeah, that's right, I fixed that bug as well. Thanks for being so diligent and testing all the OPTs, Rogue518!

[rogue518]

You're welcome, blue_max....anytime.


Sincerely, Rogue518

[Bman]

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[Vince T]

Ok you obviously didn‘t get my subtle hint

[rogue518]

I did......

Sincerley, Rogue518

[Bman]

Nope. Nice!

[Han Duo]

Hello-
Is there a set of instructions consolidated in one place on how to enable the best graphics in the game with the new functionality?

Thanks!

[blue_max]

Is there a set of instructions consolidated in one place on how to enable the best graphics in the game with the new functionality?

Not at the moment, but we're going to add options to the Babu Frik configurator so that people can enable Raytracing and configure it.

[PunkFriday]

awesome! this is like, a whole new milestone in xwa development!

[Trevor]

wow, I come back to this amazing work...
Suggestion: Soft RT should come from planets and moons (if close/bright enough to be a light source) while Hard RT should come from suns.

if you have access to the backdrop size information I suppose you could make this calculated.

Trev