AutoBillboard post effects

[omid3098]

I don't know how they are generating, so I don't know if this feature is possible or not.

as you can see in this image:

 

 

generated billboards are brighter than vegetations. it seems they don't generate with ssao, default shadows or other postprocessing effects.

is it possible to affect user-define values before generating vegetations?

for example if SSAO is enabled, billboards generate with SSAO(in same color range)

and if user swithched off SSAO, they generate without SSAO.

[L B]

+1, although I can see someone raging at this feature request. Seems like quite a lot of coding, imho.

[Josh]

SSAO may not appear on billboards because their depth information is different than what you would get with real geometry. It's not a matter of enabling an effect for them, it's just due to the difference in what is being rendered.

 

It would be possible to generate a depth texture for the billboard and write out the value into the depth buffer, but then you would lose early z discard, which would not be worth it. The fillrate requirements would increase by a lot, and I don't think whatever quality gains you got would be worth it.

[omid3098]

I can change "vegetation_billboard" image myself and results looks little better..

[Josh]

What did you alter? Just the diffuse texture? Do you get a perfect match for all lighting environments?

 

I think the specular component might be what is throwing the colors off in the first image.

[omid3098]

only diffuse texture changed in second image.. actually I didn't even checked whether normal texture has alpha channel!

however I don't think this change results. because all billboards were the same color. and normally they were not in correct direction to reflect sunlight..

I have plan to paint some back paints on them these days. then I will play with specular channel too.

 

thanks for the point..

 

Edit: I didn't checked for other lighting environments. but I will..