SA WIP SA::Render

[PetkaGtA]

@Methical yep btw fps limit moved to 60

[MAD BOSS]

What about water not being rendered? Or it's just my crappy 7770 that forgot how to graphics?

Thumbs up for alpha fix, though! Gonna test it more and let you know the bugs I stumble upon.

Edited September 21, 2014 by kikiboy95

[ziggyYardie]

@Methical yep btw fps limit moved to 60

How far can we go with SA::RENDER?

is it possible to have a built in bullet hole feature? with bullet holes for various materials like skin or flesh for ped gun shot wounds, or some way to add these effects? I know a bullet hole mod already exist but is not compatible with sa::render.

 

Similar to bullet holes, scratches and other paint job damage to any part of the vehicle would be an neat feature.

If all this is possible would be good if this is implemented somewhere in a future release.

[MAD BOSS]

Ok, results are next:

 

• Alpha works on material's transparency (I dunno if I named this correctly). Cars that have textures as alpha channels, are not transparrent at all.
• On my PC I still can't get reflections, nor water shader. (955BE 3.7Ghz, 7770 1GB, 4GB DDR3)
• Car lights textures now work properly. They illuminate 'n' sh*t.
• FPS is good, I actually find it run better than the last version.
• Weapons still invisible. U guys gotta check that one out.

Edited September 21, 2014 by kikiboy95

[PetkaGtA]

@ziggyYardie probably i'll do some decal rendering but acctualy it's better be done with some kind of cleo script(perhaps there will be some functions for that)

[Nexus Bibal]

My test of sa::render

 

-No water (invisible)

-No lens flare

-Shadow are really cool

-crash with SA_MP

-trees look really ugly

-shader effect on cars are nice

-stable fps

 

Good work, I love this mod

PS: please do the lens flare effect in this version

[miclin]

(@Silent: If you read this, your Patch still doesn't work for me with SA:RENDER. )

 

With the new fix, its extremely bugged. I can see all alpha objects(mostly the objects with 68 flag) trough buildings..

 

Here a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcUP6UQaAGI&list=UUm8i4QQThfbUDedm6fqQK-w

[Nexus Bibal]

@miclin Just disable anti aliasing

[Kalvin]

Mostly buggy on my end, shown here:

The shadows and such are pretty glitchy, no matter the settings I have the game on, it looks the same (but just less/higher FPS).

[miclin]

 

@miclin Just disable anti aliasing

 

Oh, interesting. Thought they were diasabeldxD

[Nexus Bibal]

Edited September 21, 2014 by Nexus Bibal

[PetkaGtA]

@miclin hmm... that's a bit strange... seems like R* disabling zwrite for that objects.

@Kalvin try to edit FarClip values in w_clear.xml perhaps that'll help.

[MAD BOSS]

I think some DX9 dlls are missing in my system, maybe VC Runtimes, aswel. Petka, could you list those you use? I still can't get shadows and reflection to work, even on fresh install.

[PetkaGtA]

@kikiboy95 can you do some screens? because if you have no water - that's not bug as well as reflections because they disabled atm, but if you have no shadows than I need screen and complete system info(described what I need here -http://gtaforums.com/topic/560673-sarender/?p=1066206400)

[MAD BOSS]

I run it on:

• Win 7 x86
• 1.0 hoodlum
• 7770 1GB 1GHz
• 4GB DDR3 1333

Using: Silent's ASI Loader, 2dfx lights, imfx sun effect and 1792 Streaming Memory fix.

Can't do screens now, I'm on another PC. But, shadows don't appear neither on low, nor on high settings.

[PetkaGtA]

2dfx lights, imfx sun effect and 1792 Streaming Memory fix.

that may be the problem

[GAMIR_GTA]

Testing on AMD E2-1800 APU

 

 

Works whit GTA united 1.2.0.1 (some bugs)

[ziggyYardie]

My test on the hotfix.
I experience a bit of lag at times, frequent fluctuation in fps. as for the bugs, the video speaks for it self.

 

 

[pep legal]

Testing new version...well...

 

...Dithering pattern everywhere ! ! !

 

For each and every texture transition (from LOD to Normal ) happens a black dithering pattern !

 

Glasses on cars are "less" black...but still dark.

 

Shadows nightmare still persists (along with all previously mentioned bugs).

 

For me, at least, this new version is a little bit worse !

 

 

...and please people...disable "Monetize" option of your videos ! We are in a "development" atmosphere here...it's not time to be opportunist.

 

 

Thanks.

 

(AMD 7950 / Win 8.1 / Vanilla game)

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Edited September 22, 2014 by pep legal

[Marty McFly]

Well, Yardie seems to be greedy as f*ck, of course he monetarizes his videos. Well, who needs it...

 

@topic: any known incompatibilities with 2dfx? Only mod I can imagine why it crashes on my mod GTA.

Edited September 22, 2014 by Marty McFly

[Gramps]

Well, Yardie seems to be greedy as f*ck, of course he monetarizes his videos. Well, who needs it...

"Finder's Fee" lol

 

Winner winner chicken dinner

[Gramps]

You'd have more luck making money from a lemonade stand kid.

 

Stop being a little b*tch and trying to make money off other peoples back. Not a great characteristic to have.

[Agem]

Please do not double post, it is against the rules.

 

Also it is wrong to try to get money (as small as it may be) off other people's hard work. I know you might really need or want it, but that's not the right way to do it, friend. Think about it.

[pep legal]

You'd have more luck making money from a lemonade stand kid.

 

 

That was funny

 

 

@ziggyYardie : We don't care what you DO ( or DON'T ) out there....We are only asking you to NOT do that HERE ! ! ! ---- period.

 

 

Backing to SA-Render : Anyone else has pics or videos to comparer SA-Render differences ???

 

I know it's a prototype yet, but I'm a little scared of low performance on my machine, considering I'm testing it on a pretty vanilla game ( No HQ stuffs ).

 

Thanks.

 

 

(AMD 7950 / Win 8.1 / Vanilla game)

Edited September 23, 2014 by pep legal

[ThirteenAG]

Till you SARender...

 

 

[PetkaGtA]

CALM DOWN, CHILL OUT, BE HAPPY, SMOKE WEED

About news - I'm working on settings if someone want to help doing somekind of editor for settings .xml's PM me

Also currently I work on flexible Post Processing managment so for example you can add your PostProcess techniques and render them into textures and use in next techniques.
Anyway here is some template code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Settings FPSLimit="120">	<Global>		<Rendering AmbientTermType="1" StippleType="1"/>		<Shadows DrawAnchor="Fustrum" UseESM="true" UseGPSM="false" UsePCF="true"/>		<PostProcess>			<Item name="FXAA" beforeLighting="false">				<Path>Render\\Shaders\\PostProcess\\FXAA.fx</Path>				<Technique name="FXAA">					<OutRT type="1" w="te0" h="720" f="113" name="tScreenBuffer"/>				</Technique>				<Technique name="FXAA">					<OutRT type="0" w="512" h="512" f="113" name="tScreenBuffer"/>				</Technique>			</Item>		</PostProcess>	</Global>	<Low>		<Shadows Enable="true" DrawDistance="20.0" DrawDistanceDistant="30.0" Bias="0.0002" UseHighPrecision="false" Size="512" UseStipple="false" DrawAtNight="false" PCFSampleCount="5"/>		<Deferred EnableStippleAlpha="false" DrawAlphaForwardPass="false" DrawForwardAlphaForTextures="false" DrawSpecular="false"/>		<Reflections DrawReflections="false" Size="4"/>		<PostProcess>			<FXAA Enable = "true"/>		</PostProcess>	</Low>	<Medium>		<Shadows Enable="true" DrawDistance="20" DrawDistanceDistant="50" Bias="0.0002" UseHighPrecision="false" Size="1024" UseStipple="false" DrawAtNight="false" PCFSampleCount="5"/>		<Deferred EnableStippleAlpha="false" DrawAlphaForwardPass="false" DrawForwardAlphaForTextures="false" DrawSpecular="true"/>		<Reflections DrawReflections="true" Size="4"/>		<PostProcess>			<FXAA Enable = "true"/>		</PostProcess>	</Medium>	<High>		<Shadows Enable="true" DrawDistance="25" DrawDistanceDistant="100" Bias="0.0002" UseHighPrecision="false" Size="2048" UseStipple="false" DrawAtNight="false" PCFSampleCount="5"/>		<Deferred EnableStippleAlpha="true" DrawAlphaForwardPass="true" DrawForwardAlphaForTextures="false" DrawSpecular="true"/>		<Reflections DrawReflections="true" Size="8"/>		<PostProcess>			<FXAA Enable = "true"/>		</PostProcess>	</High>	<VeryHigh>		<Shadows Enable="true" DrawDistance="40" DrawDistanceDistant="100" Bias="0.0002" UseHighPrecision="true" Size="4096" UseStipple="true" DrawAtNight="true" PCFSampleCount="5"/>		<Deferred EnableStippleAlpha="true" DrawAlphaForwardPass="true" DrawForwardAlphaForTextures="true" DrawSpecular="true"/>		<Reflections DrawReflections="true" Size="16"/>		<PostProcess>			<FXAA Enable = "true"/>		</PostProcess>	</VeryHigh></Settings>

[uokka]

Have all opinions now been pointed out? Great.

 

CALM DOWN, CHILL OUT, BE HAPPY, SMOKE WEED

[savidge]

What was wrong with just adding this topic's link in the description instead?

[darthpepo1]

i can't use the mod

[Fantomax]

Petka : WTF? even more? +Customization? You really make modders dream years ago happening right now. Can't wait

Edited September 23, 2014 by alayanrole