Headlights!??? someone with a good vidcard show me!

SuPeRTaRD · Post by **SuPeRTaRD** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:16 am

anyone got a nice vidcard & wanna show us poor folks what the new headlights in 2.8 look like?

anyone on the dev team wanna say how they work.. like.. the big words
(how they work, like what they do graphics wise to achive what we're looking at)

thx

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:22 am

They use a little ARB script that Jonathan wrote to render the headlights.

That's all I know about it (and I put jonathan's code in there, heh). Jonathan?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:01 am

It's an ARB_fragment_program, i.e. a little program uploaded to the GPU and run per pixel. I made the first "prototype" (<< includes screenshots) a while ago to show a sensor problem (and my framerate with -O0 and thousands of sensors

). Later z-man made a headlight and I went thinking "how can I make this look good, and get good performance too?".

The program places a point light 1 distance above the cycle, of brightness speed^2 and the color of its cycle. It does diffuse lighting with quadratic attenuation.

SuPeRTaRD · Post by **SuPeRTaRD** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:22 am

thx

pssst lucifer , new map!!!!!

heh

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:35 am

pssst, supertard, you only uploaded the screenshot.

SuPeRTaRD · Post by **SuPeRTaRD** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:42 am

nuh-uh

refresh mang..

clear yer browser cache or sth

*shrugs*

oh..

pssst. your server is offline

wah

i got to play ppl on my new maps tonight tho, while it was up

radness