Shadow map

• I worked on shadow mapping and after some works finally I successfully implemented shadow mapping for directional lights but I don't add this feature to the engine yet.

• Now KGE use PhysX for the physics and dynamics You can build the terrain shape and box for the dynamics and we will add more shapes for dynamics later.
• Everything in scene is rendering with multistream
• The Animated Meshes and tile terrain now use dynamic vertex buffers
  

Decal on terrain

Today I added decals on terrain.
They are nice and you can rotate decals on terrain and use them for selecting effects also I have an idea to use decals for add dynamic lights on terrain.

Attach nodes to bones

Now you can attach objects to the bones and they will be updated automatically.


The terrain is now divided to smaller sections and the ray picking speed is very good now.
I also write a simple shader that represent the water effect that color the terrain depend on height.
You can see the terrain AABB in the picture that get updated during the edit.

Blend Tiles, AABB & Ray Intersections

The tiles can be blended with each other now. This way there is no hard edge anymore.

You have to use an alpha map for blending so you have more options for blending. I use this alpha map for test. It is not a good one :D

And here is a screen shot.


I also added AABB and ray intersection to the engine, so I can optimize my terrain more and partitioning it.

If anyone has a question about everything I implemented in my engine please ask me and leave a comment for me I try to answer it :D

Edit terrain

Hi all

After coding for triangle-ray intersection I start to create a class for getting the clicked triangle. I called this class DynamicTriangleMesh.

DynamicTriangleMesh works slow for now and I need to partition the terrain and add AABB(Axis Aligned Bounding Box) to it then I check the ray collision with AABB if it collide then check for triangle intersection.

I added some functions for editing the tiles and height of the terrain.

I also added a flood fill algorithm to fill the tiles and finding the tiles borders for blending them.

I test my idea about blending and tiling it works good and soon the first version of terrain will be ready.

I also added a screen shot for showing the fill and finding the tile borders with flood fill algorithm.

you can get the latest codes from SVN.
https://kge.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kge

The first test for new terrain design

Hi

I test the new algorithm for the tiled terrain and it works well with texture ID.

For solving the texture filtering problem with tile texturing I copy 16 pixel from each side to opposite side of the texture and don't use small mipmap level so the hardware texture filtering works well.

Here is a screen shot I know it is not seem to be good but when I add blending you can see a good screen shot. For now I want to add PhysX engine for terrain pickings and future physics dynamics.

A new tiled terrain design

Hello
After many days of thinking hard on tile terrain finally find a good way to build the terrain.

Before start talking about algorithm I have to say I’m not implemented this algorithm yet and things may be change later.

TextureID:

For storing the tile texcoords I use one textureID with A32R32G32B32F format for storing the tile texcoords offsets then in the pixel shader I use it to map the tiles to the terrain.

I get the idea from Journal of Ysaneya.

No mipmap and texture filtering is needed for this texture.

Vertex:

I need one texcoord for my vertices and they start from 0 to number of columns/rows increase one per vertex.

How to map the tiles:

In the pixel shader I read the tiles offset and creates their texcoord.

X = 1 / number of columns in the tile texture
U = Uoffset + u * X;

For reading the Uoffset from TextureID I can use something like above formula.

X = 1 / TextureID size;
U = u * X;

Tile terrain

Hi

I worked on tile texture and add this to engine but when I saw Red Alert 3 terrain my mind changed.

I want to add a tile terrain something like Red Alert 3 terrain. Its a tile terrain too. I think I can add this type of tile texturing.

I think a way to combine both of them(WarCraft III style and Red Alert 3) is a good idea.

More active this year

Hi all
I want to be more active this year and work on Kochol Game Engine more.
I hope it become a more useful engine soon.

Currently I work on tile texturing for a tile based terrain like WarCraft III terrain.

The problem with tile texturing is the Anisotropic filter that combine the tiles edge with each other and if you turn this off the quality become bad.

I skip one pixel from each side when I create the UV for terrain and the problem solved but there is another problem with mipmaps.

I have to create mipmaps by a custom way that scale each tile and place it on the mipmap. I use devil to achieve this.

And for a 16*16 tile I use a 16*16 mipmap never less mipmap levels.

Wish me luck.