HDRish (even trepan will be in awe :D )

Waistless · Post by **Waistless** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:16 am

Ok, i was poking around and found this HDRish Smartshader from this thread: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16282, It produces the bloom effect, and It only works with ATI Radeon cards, 9500 and above.

without HDRish

with HDRish

Now, i originally had to adjust the values lower to look better, the Bloom effect looks better when you turn the brightness on very dark. however due to the incompetence of the screenshot generater, and the way ctrl+v with paint works, i was only able to save them at the default brightness value.

If you want effects like these, you can, all you need is an ATI Radeon card 9500 series or higher, with a recent Catalyst driver. Download the attatchment and read the following instructions.

Unzip "hdrish" anywhere, go inside the folder, then open "psscontrol2", click browse, go into the folder "all" (inside hdrish), and open "HDRish.pss". The smartshader is now loaded, just launch bzflag. Also turn brightness low to see a full realistic effect
This effect can be used with any game in OpenGL, but it won't work with Direct3D.

EDIT NOTE: Also, this won't work with Catalyst 6.4 and above. Apologies but i can't do anything about that, ATI got a brain disease and removed smartshader support from those drivers.

Apologies to NVIDIA users though, since those cards don't have the ATI smartshader feature.

Winterberry · Post by **Winterberry** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:03 am

Drat. I have a 9100.

Looks really nice though. Really really nice...makes me think more seriously about upgrading sooner than I've been planning.

^nightmare^ · Post by **^nightmare^** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:21 pm

Wow looks a whole lot better than the last one. Great work!

Tanner · Post by **Tanner** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:32 pm

Can you resize the screenshots? They are a bit...big.

-Tanner

TD-Linux · Post by **TD-Linux** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:37 pm

I saw a screenshot from trepan about a month ago using a similar shader for a lighting effect on the bullets.

I'll be very impressed when ATI decides to release a decent driver for Linux that can handle these 'smartshaders'.

Think_Different · Post by **Think_Different** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:48 am

what about us nVidia/mac people?

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:22 am

it's an ATI windows driver only thing.

it dosn't realy modify bzflag, it just plays with the openGL calls and the balance of colors to tweak the final image and make it look like High Dynamic Range lighting, hence the "ish" part.

so it will only work for them, since there is no actual change to bzflag, or the code.

proper shader support would be writen into bzflag and work on more then just newer ATI cards under windows.

Waistless · Post by **Waistless** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:32 am

^^Jeff is on the ball^^

Tanner wrote:Can you resize the screenshots? They are a bit...big.

-Tanner

It doesn't matter that they're big, they're only JPGs, plus better detail when it's at 1600x1200

As said in the posted linked article, if you're a hardcore modifier and you want to adjust the intensity of the glows, simply open "HDRish.pss" with text editor and find this line:

Code: Select all

MAD result.color, blur, 0.25, back;

and change "0.25" to any number between 1 and 0, with 1 being the highest.

Tanner · Post by **Tanner** » Fri May 26, 2006 4:35 pm

Waistless wrote:^^Jeff is on the ball^^

Tanner wrote:Can you resize the screenshots? They are a bit...big.

-Tanner
It doesn't matter that they're big, they're only JPGs, plus better detail when it's at 1600x1200

Thumbnails would work linking to the bigger picture.

-Tanner