Screenshot of the Month April 2012 [Winner announced!]

[Mel]

That screen is missing SSAO to be complete

[hendu]

Oh, and the trees all look identical

[Mel]

That cannot be helped sometimes, but i really wouldn't mind that detail, maybe more tree models would help.

[fmx]

My vote goes to the zombi screen shot . I want to see more partecipants.

here's my shot:

title
justA_pp_test:
http://i.imgur.com/HDA3G.jpg (<-- link to original image. Forum is cutting a piece of the image)



that's a GPU accelerated test with FreeImageMixer. I have still to add real-time parameters tuning.

Effects are added in this order
1) perlin noise texture (so clouds to make fog more realistic)
2) fog using the noise (perlin is not very noticeable, I tried to keep the effects as minimum visible as possible.)
3) blur pass
4) Depth of field
5) blum (using edge detection.).
6) slight color rotation based on luminance value (image mixer is using a different color matrix for each pixel. the matrix is generated on the fly. so it is not efficient and can be optimized alot).

the image is created using only 3 existing images (the starting images are not done by me.)
so i link there where I found the test images:
http://pxr.dk/wmt/?page_id=22

I just searched for good color+depth images. Only the shader is done by me.

OverHeat

It drives terrible with all those rocks. Who came up with that idea?

- soft-shadow pssm
- blooming
- multi-texture for terrain combined with bump-mapping
- blur pass
- depth of field
- small heat wave above engine
- sun-ray pass
- contrast and color saturation
- lens flare
- SPARK particles for dust and small rocks

Worth reposting on new page, great work guys

[shybovycha]

There are two incredible screenshot this month! Wow! And there is snow lying on the ground in my city right now... Ballance, nuff said =)

[wing64]

Godtower - Arsa Framework



- BRDF Cook-Torrance (http://www.irrlicht3d.org/papers/BrdfModelle.pdf , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%E2%80 ... ance_model)
- Bokeh DOF (http://devlog-martinsh.blogspot.com/)
- SH (http://www.ppsloan.org/publications/StupidSH36.pdf , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_harmonics)
- Gamma Correction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_correction)
- Godray (http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGem ... _ch13.html)
- FXAA (http://developer.download.nvidia.com/as ... ePaper.pdf)

[kazymjir]

Whoa! Nice, Wing64!

[ent1ty]

I agree, it looks really good. ARSA framework is certainly not arsed up

[wiedzmin112]

beautyInRender

PSSM shadows
Atmospheric scattering
God Rays
Normal Mapping
Screen Space Water
Deffered Rendering

More there : http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=46113

[ent1ty]

This month is really wicked
(Though I think we can all agree which snapshot has the greatest artistic value )

[Mel]

You don't know how often the quality of the content is mixed with the potential of an engine These are great screens!

[Nadro]

In this month the competition is very high. Personally I have three favorites. Great works!

[hendu]

My theory is that entity's high quality shot prompted others, usually in hiding, to display their works in a vain attempt to look nearly as awesome.

[ent1ty]

My theory is that entity's high quality shot prompted others, usually in hiding, to display their works in a vain attempt to look nearly as awesome.

derp. could *technically* still be true, but yes. I now noticed the date, I thought people were more mature than that though.

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=43907

Oh my god, you're right
That's what happened in the other thread!

So now I'm gonna be entering the screenshot competition every month to lure everyone out of the Plato's Cave!

[Escen]

Hey Guys, it's getting interesting this month...Did I tell anyone that I'm a very nice girl and I like to talk on private if I get your vote