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Being able to do those things with D3D7 is very cool, I just found it quite surprising. The first time I looked at DirectX it was D3D8 in VB6... :)
Toaster wrote:Do you have any links for this pipeline? I am kinda interested as long as its' free.. :roll:
The latest DirectX SDK is a good place to start. :) The advantage of the programmable pipeline is that you handle all of the rendering (transformation, lighting, texturing) yourself so can effectively do anything you like. You just have to write the vertex + pixel shaders, which are easy enough using HLSL (and the D3D docs contain a simple effect file that provides basic transformation and texturing that you can expand on).

Here's the world.fx that I use to render Quake levels (it simulates the look of the software renderer).
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Thanks Ben I am going to look into it... I am also experimenting with DOF, and some refraction. :P

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Just some screenshots.. First one is of the level editor I am rewriting it so it looks much better the 2nd one has bumpmapping and reflection along with a nice bloom filter..

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I hope you guys like it... :P

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Post by Liazon »

O.O *jaw drop
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Post by King Harold »

looks nice (aren't those poles supposed to cast a shadow on the floor though?) is this in DX7?
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I wish I could do that kind of stuff, it's incredible!
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Post by Toaster »

Thanks everyone!

King Harold: I did put shadows in this demo but I could in a flash. :D and this is completely directX 7. :twisted:
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Post by kalan_vod »

The level editor is looking very nice, and the second picture is great also!
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Post by Toaster »

Then how bout some water...

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Post by tr1p1ea »

Wow, thats really impressive toaster! This project has no shortage of eye-candy.
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Post by Toaster »

Thanks I've made it so you can change the bump X,Y texture scale as long with the bump height. You can change the water color as well and set it up the scale so that it can be as long as you want I did a test 100000,100000 of my world units thats incredibly large like super gigantically large. Still the same framerate as before thanks to bumpmapping.
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Is this software-accelerated or a hardware-accelerated shader? If it is a shader, can you post the code?
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Post by Super Speler »

Hmm... the bright lines in the water honestly make it worse, but other than that, it's great!
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Halifax: Its not a shader I am using directX 7.. :) I made a simple plane with a bumpmap/cubemap on it. Then I move the bumpmap to make the waves. Really simple nothing to super about it.

Super Speler: The bright lines underneath the water is the grid.
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Post by Liazon »

o.o wow...

I think the lines add a bit more perspective to the image though.
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