[Alpha|Test] SA Gfx

[CHILLI]

dexx, I saw on that picture with the helicopter you had the moving rotor thing, is that something you modded or is it the model you changed? Cuz I really miss the nice blurred rotor thing from Vice City! Could you atleast try to add that to the mod, please? It will give the plane and helicopter flying a new feeling, it looks much more "real" to the game. Thanks if you could do this ^^

 

if you could do this, I will recommend you as a really good modder, it's obvious that this is a big mod, becuase you're taking a long time to work. And at that picture I really see you've done a good honest (if I say it right so you understand what I mean) try to make it look good, but without luck. But I dont really care if the road are reflective or not, they still change colors when the time changes.

 

Keep up the awesome work man, I think all the other modders missing it will love it.

I do. some for you dexx:

 

[JP3]

 

Then would only be possible to increase the angle of lighting is published in each vehicle separately?

Unable to add a light as the poles of the game in front headlamp of the vehicle?

The lights on poles illuminate objects then putting this property in the car will work?

 

Edited December 9, 2007 by JP3

[nabo45]

Then would only be possible to increase the angle of lighting is published in each vehicle separately?

Unable to add a light as the poles of the game in front headlamp of the vehicle?

The lights on poles illuminate objects then putting this property in the car will work?

Congratulations for the work!

Did you just quote your self?

 

Ontopic: Great work DexX, really awesome .

 

[ikt]

Nice work =D

[JostVice]

 

Btw, i did try to add spec to map objects. the results are not at all good;

That is what happens when map objects are dynamically lit by the sunlight, without normals.

 

 

yeah, they look strange... but maybe there is a better effect in small objects like barrels or those street props, maybe still we need to let map for vertex colors

 

PD. it looks like you fixed alpha?

[_6mik_]

it loook stange, but anyhow it look very very good !

 

I hope your going to fix the parts and the lights of cars of your pixel shader reflection wich look awesome...

 

very impresiive althought

[CHILLI]

You're trying to make a pixel-per-pixel shading/lightning right? But anyway, sometimes when I'm driving around and for some reason want to reload my game, I sometimes see all the things on a car smoothly shaded, like the wheels of the picador or ranger. And then when I enter a bit darker place it unluckely goes back to the normal, non shaded model. What makes this happen? And is this for any help? I think it has to do something with the lightning set in the map, but I dont know.

 

Good luck, and hope this may helped.

 

Cya and goodnight!

[GaryRoachSanderson]

nice mod! But lags my game like hell especially when a group of 5 or 6 crown victoria's appear. I'm using a Nvidia 7600GT Is it too weak for this mod?

 

Edit: also since you attempt to light up map objects why not give them road reflections? and even better maybe water reflections? that will be cool!

[CHILLI]

grove street boy: I'm using the same graphic card, and I seem to have the exactly same problem. I'm usually driving around in doherty and the paradiso area, and those are usually stoned of cars, and there in doherty my game almost become unplayable when it's on the day and a lot of cars are at the driving school. maybe dexx could try to reduce the lag in some way, if not I'll just have to wait for christmas, then I'll probably get a new graphic card.

 

cya from me, CHILLI ofcourse, you can read right?

 

 

edit: I finally remember to keep the photo thing on, so here's the 2 pictures to compare:

 

The way I made this happen was when I accidently loaded a wrong savegame that was in an interior, then when I loaded the real one (outdoors in doherty) that happened, yellow lightning like it was the hot sun or something making the whole thing yellow, but I dont know.

Edited December 15, 2007 by CHILLI

[DexX]

Ok, i split the sa stuff into its own topic. I should have a new release within a day or two, that will replace everything released for sa up to this point. more on that later.

[ikt]

Is it still going to be laggy? Because everything is very nice And i founf something of you that only reflects the sun, but that effect is also ''pwnage'' and it doesn't make you lagg.

[H13N.H3N]

I have some questions around, i noticed that games with real-time lighting and shadows look more interesting when the shadows are really strong, like in Scarface (the game) this is stored in some of the files inside the data or model folders?, or can be handled inside the "sa_lighting.asi" (that btw had worked very fine for me) is there any way to make the shadows as strong as the bitmaps that replace them when low-q mode?

[morsolo]

Nice work DexX'y.

Good to see you finally split it up too

 

Waiting anxiously for the new release!

(Reloads SA)

[P.I.M.P_PL]

maybe its be possible to do this:

 

when you drive the car and you pass some object this object contrast in your car??(like from real world)

 

Bye.

[javi13]

it it working with gta sa EU exe files yet?

 

EDIT: Nevermind, i just remembered that i had a US exe from a few months ago

Edited December 20, 2007 by javi13

[P.I.M.P_PL]

it it working with gta sa EU exe files yet?

yes i have EU version and its work great.

[DexX]

...and the moment some of you have been waiting for - public release of the super-duper alpha version of this mod;

www.3dhole.com/gtafiles/pipeline/sagfx01_rel.rar

 

Screenshots are at the end of this post.

 

I strongly suggest you read the readme file, and associated documentation. If i see questions asked that i already answered, i'll just ignore them. Also, i will update the first post of this topic with the current version for future updates (in addition to the update post itself).

 

If your computer nags at you about missing "d3dx9_31", use this;

www.3dhole.com/gtafiles/pipeline/d3dx9_31.rar

 

Known issues:

-Vehicles are only lit by the sun for now. More work is needed before extra lights can be synced.

-Random skin/bone corruption on peds (namely driver in vehicles, cutscenes). No known cause, or fix.

-Some detached damaged vehicle pieces (on the ground) may be discolored (pink and green, mainly carcols4 vehicles). Known issue, no fix yet.

-Headlight/Taillights don't show up. Actually they do, but there's some weirdness about how SA handles them.

-Some materials (tire tread, interiors, etc) are shiny when they should not be. Known issue, but i'm not going to fix it. Why don't you ask R* why they put reflection maps on those materials? Rubber and cloth should not reflect!

-*hi contrast shading (vehicles are particularly dark on one side, and bright on the other).

*this is fixed. re-download the mod and install it. download link is the same.

 

Performance issues:

None. Seriously. I tested this @ 1280 * 1024, my monitors maximum resolution, with every SA setting at max including AA, 4 windows folders open, mIRC with 3 rooms, msn messenger with 1 conversation, fraps, and Firefox (6 tabs opened) and my framerate was steady at between 19-25fps (according to fraps).

 

my system specs;

WinXp Sp2

2048mb ram

Directx 9.0c

Geforce 7600 GS(512mb) agp

 

Source code was planned to be released as well, but i opted not too. If interested, send me a pm, but be warned you need the Renderware graphics sdk to re-compile it (Not provided, nor will i tell you where/how to "obtain" it). This mod built against Rw 3.6.0.3,and compiled with MSVC++ 6.0.

Source

Source added for feedback, and to cut down on my inbox.

 

Some screenshots;

^note the spec on the front of the tire in this one^

Note the smooth, yet subtle spec on the rear of the banshee.

spec on the sabre, reflection at rear of van.

These fellas never looked so good.

overall. The effect is extremely subtle, but i did slightly alter the game's handling of alpha textures for vehicles. The text and badging on the police car is smooth around the edges now, as less pixels are being rejected (changed alpha reference value from 0x64 to 0x01).

 

Will edit post as appropriate.

[H13N.H3N]

 

...and the moment some of you have been waiting for - public release of  the super-duper alpha version of this mod

jeje XD nice change to an old friend

Edited September 16, 2008 by H13N.H3N

[morsolo]

Nice work, it looks really nice in game, with some exceptions...

 

1. Only SOME windows are transparent.

 

2. The light direction is VERY exaggerated. It's fien on one side, but black on the other.

 

I'll keep testing it out, because, on the right car, on the right angle, it looks good!

[DexX]

For vehicle authors, and those willing to re-export the models, there are some extremely important things you needs to know. First of all, all the SA-specific material attributes are NOT supported. if you use 3dsmax, you are limited to the options in green in this image:

click here if the image doesn't load

You may use:

Ambient

Diffuse

Color

Alpha

Diffuse Texture + mask

Reflection image

Reflection amount

 

You may NOT use:

-any spec

-R*-implemented reflection system

 

Spec, in this version, is derived from a saturated version of the diffuse texture. All the specular parameters in the material are ignored.

 

Reflections are done entirely with renderware functions, the R*-specific stuff is gone. it wasn't necessary to begin with. Also, there is only one set of UV coordinates that is needed - those are for the diffuse/spec/normal texture. The reflection map coordinates are generated and used by the shader automatically.

[H13N.H3N]

For vehicle authors, and those willing to re-export the models, there are some extremely important things you needs to know

i was also noticed that, but it is ok on Kams Script, since the 2nd UV map is hard to fit, the reflection image is the best chose anyway, i'm too looking at some planes and helis, nothing important at the moment but i guess that is a fair cost only using the reflection image. again thnks 4 this release

[donvito]

holy crap sa looks so awesome with your mod, i can'T get words for that.

 

 

thank you soooo much

[Darecki]

Wow, thanks for the release! I'm looking forward for the final release ^^

[Arvis]

Weird things happens on GeForce 4 MX 440-SE

[DexX]

Alright, i added some bumps to the normal map. Not much, but a little bit goes a long way.

side of the door..

hood, side of fender..

trunk(boot)/roof. i was also experimenting with different cubemaps and slightly modified shader code. Blended the reflection multiplier with the desat diffuse texture.

Door side, by handle.

 

You can get the normal map here;

www.3dhole.com/gtafiles/pipeline/nmap.rar

just overwrite the one in extra_resources/textures. It should work well for most SA cars, any vehicles that were textured using "vehiclegrunge256", which is what the normal map is based off of.

 

Added the normal map and tweaked code to the download, link is the same.

 

About errors:

if you get weirdness or corruption, please post the contents of the "shader results.txt" file in /extra_resources/shaders.

@ Vecis; that's weird. noted.

@ Pimp (below) - noted.

[P.I.M.P_PL]

i have some bug:

 

its a screenshots:

 

 

http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=e18de46f56222454

 

 

http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=c550265399d6fe85

 

 

http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=41ea44b1ffa5f0e4

 

and some bug in shadow:

 

http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=046ef5e8896dec46

 

 

info of my graphic card(maybe it help you):

geforce 6100 gt

 

[JostVice]

Awesome dude... just... no words...

 

 

 

Edited December 20, 2007 by Jost_Vice

[derty]

Weird things happens on GeForce 4 MX 440-SE

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee23/Arvis14/dexxsgfx.png

ah, me too vecis. GF4 MX420, we have DX7 cards, that's not the REASON, but we are very dated

and actually, we don't see the game the way it should be seen, no pixel shaders etc etc

 

we need new cards

 

-derty

[Hollaz]

Well, then i continue the tributes to a good mod/hack.

 

 

Edited December 20, 2007 by Hollaz

[H13N.H3N]

??? very strange... in my case the mod worked the first time, after that only white is on cars, cars radiating light, and lights of cars on all day/night in a very buggy mode, the part of the withe cars comes from "sa_pipeline_low.asi" cause the other file work good, now my card is an ATI Radeon IGP 320M, not one of the best, and i have to admit that is low the support that have in Pixel Shader 2.0, could be that the cause? the owners of ATI Radeon cards will suffer 4 ever? the VC FX mod also had a low response on this card, perhaps it is nothing more to do.

 

 

 

 

"SHADER RESULT"Wed Dec 19 21:59:06 2007D:\H-Fun\Grand Theft Auto\San Andreas\extra_resources\shaders\vehmainmat_bumpref.hlsl(182): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1Wed Dec 19 21:59:06 2007D:\H-Fun\Grand Theft Auto\San Andreas\extra_resources\shaders\vehmainmat_bumpref.hlsl(182): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1Wed Dec 19 21:59:06 2007D:\H-Fun\Grand Theft Auto\San Andreas\extra_resources\shaders\vehmainmat_bump.hlsl(172): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1Wed Dec 19 21:59:06 2007D:\H-Fun\Grand Theft Auto\San Andreas\extra_resources\shaders\vehmainmat_lights.hlsl(87): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1Wed Dec 19 22:06:14 2007D:\H-Fun\Grand Theft Auto\San Andreas\extra_resources\shaders\vehmainmat_bumpref.hlsl(182): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1Wed Dec 19 22:06:14 2007D:\H-Fun\Grand Theft Auto\San Andreas\extra_resources\shaders\vehmainmat_bumpref.hlsl(182): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1Wed Dec 19 22:06:14 2007D:\H-Fun\Grand Theft Auto\San Andreas\extra_resources\shaders\vehmainmat_bump.hlsl(172): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1Wed Dec 19 22:06:14 2007D:\H-Fun\Grand Theft Auto\San Andreas\extra_resources\shaders\vehmainmat_lights.hlsl(87): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1Wed Dec 19 22:18:00 2007D:\H-Fun\Grand Theft Auto\San Andreas\extra_resources\shaders\vehmainmat_bumpref.hlsl(182): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1Wed Dec 19 22:18:00 2007D:\H-Fun\Grand Theft Auto\San Andreas\extra_resources\shaders\vehmainmat_bumpref.hlsl(182): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1Wed Dec 19 22:18:00 2007D:\H-Fun\Grand Theft Auto\San Andreas\extra_resources\shaders\vehmainmat_bump.hlsl(172): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1Wed Dec 19 22:18:00 2007D:\H-Fun\Grand Theft Auto\San Andreas\extra_resources\shaders\vehmainmat_lights.hlsl(87): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1

 

Edited December 20, 2007 by H13N.H3N