Some wip projects

[AndreasFSC]

 

[Kenny Paton]

minor things needs to be edited to work as good as possible.

So basically we need to read the readme.

 

[AndreasFSC]

Generally most people don't do that I guess, but the changes should be to the .gdb files mainly.
I will probably make some update pack for standard game tracks.

 

[Kenny Paton]

the changes should be to the .gdb files mainly

That shouldn't be too difficult, I suppose people can do the tracks they use regularly and ignore others.

 

[AndreasFSC]

Just a simple demo. The bad performance is from the video capturing.

 

[AndreasFSC]

Just some random pictures (everybody here likes cars, I hope)...
Found and fixed some shader materials that didn't work as they should. A first "open beta" version could probably be released soon.

 

[AndreasFSC]

Good evening from Donington Park

 

[AndreasFSC]

Good morning from Donington Park... yes it is too much yellow for the moment

I try to find good sets of light and fog colors for tracks to use as a standard.

 

[Incredible Hulk]

This is fantastic.
Where can I register for beta testing

 

[AndreasFSC]

I think I will upload it as a mod here. But I have found some more things to fix/take care of first.

 

[Incredible Hulk]

You are doing gigantic job so I think it would be good if more moders come to help prepare one Race07 Anniversary Mod!

I’ll add a little bit help or maybe distraction with

Race 07 Graphic&Shaders Playground

Race 07 Graphic&Shaders Playground This mod includes previous @Bjarne Hansen work on Fresnel and DX9 shaders for Race 07. - Additional Reflection Mod Thanks @GTR233 for cubemaps from marvellous GTR2 Anniversary patch. (Please don’t use those...

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In pictures I additionally used few emap.dds an cube maps from GTR2 anniversary mod for additional reflections and already installed Bjarne Hansen and AndreasFSC shader mods.

Changes are in DIFFUSE.GFX, BUMPMAP.GFX, CUBEMAP.GFX and SPECULAR.GFX
Diffuse.gfx shaders are mostly for mod testing. (backup old shaders first!)
On some tracks they produce wrong effects only on horizon but on other tracks whole terrain areas are wrong. Mirrors react strangely and also GTR2 cars are now too shiny.

@AndreasFSC please take a look are those of any real usage.

Edit: v0.3 b with more compatible and developer version

 

[AndreasFSC]

Interesting info, do you have any shader experience?

A few days ago I asked myself why not just try to convert and use the SRPL shaders (I have never tried them, but I have heard they are good), but the main idea is that the ones I work on should be kind of fail-safe and should "never" produce the too strange results.
I try to take control of as many things as possible and set limits to the settings range, and also use the track lights as much as possible. I will not look spectacular, but hopefully consistent.

Do you use some post process addon? Looks like there is some bloom used in the last picture. Building reflections look nice

 

[AndreasFSC]

 

[Incredible Hulk]

Interesting info, do you have any shader experience?

A few days ago I asked myself why not just try to convert and use the SRPL shaders (I have never tried them, but I have heard they are good), but the main idea is that the ones I work on should be kind of fail-safe and should "never" produce the too strange results.
I try to take control of as many things as possible and set limits to the settings range, and also use the track lights as much as possible. I will not look spectacular, but hopefully consistent.

Do you use some post process addon? Looks like there is some bloom used in the last picture. Building reflections look nice

I saw that @Bjarne Hansen in his Fresnel Shaders mod used HEX edit "hacks" to enable some new shaders and thought it would be exciting to add more of those. Messed around with shader files and after editing diffuse.gfx seeing strange results in game was the actual EUREKA moment, that I'm doing something useful and not just placebo.

This is still more of a experiment. I will later add playsafe part and devtesting shaders so someone more familiar with modding Race07 tracks and Car will recognise parts where we can replace globally some old shaders with better versions (srpl or any other, even original ones if it's produce good looking), and without errors.

This is just clean native shaders without any postprocessing.
And it's incredible how everything feels right in those old classics, not just simulation part but as a whole games.

Strange how some tracks are almost without errors (srpl shaders 0.2b)

And others ara totaly cyberpunk (srpl shaders 0.2b)

 

[AndreasFSC]

It depends very much on how specular is used, I think. Light is used differently in different materials, and some tracks use very high settings. So when changing shaders things gets crazy.

 

[Incredible Hulk]

Yup. So many things to fix.
Even GP and International Donington produce different results on what it seems are same trees.

Doningnton GP wrong trees rendering

Doningnton International trees are good?


Sorry for what it seems was just distratcion. I'll move this shader things to new thread.
Super Touring cars and tracks are beautiful anyway

 

[Kenny Paton]

Super Touring cars and tracks are beautiful anyway

Agreed

 

[AndreasFSC]

Yup. So many things to fix.
Even GP and International Donington produce different results on what it seems are same trees.

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Doningnton GP wrong trees rendering

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Doningnton International trees are good?


Sorry for what it seems was just distratcion. I'll move this shader things to new thread.
Super Touring cars and tracks are beautiful anyway

No problem, nice to get some interaction, feedback and inspiration here! So feel free to add your findings and screenshots

 

[Incredible Hulk]

No problem, nice to get some interaction, feedback and inspiration here! So feel free to add your findings and screenshots

Thanks
It would be too much to post tracks with black skies here so I opened new thread with more technical analysis for specific graphic bugs etc. featuring Oulton Park.
If you know what shaders are used on those black trees it could help.

Still waiting from yours

Graphic&Shaders wip

The God, The Bad and The Ugly! It's anywhere near production ready but to involve more people I released the Playground mod. Marketing pictures are great but there are numerous glitches and bugs. @holacrosty already did something similar for GTR2 and anyone else with more experience or just...

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[AndreasFSC]

Most shaders work ok, but I still need to fix some minor bump shader flickering.

 

[Incredible Hulk]

Most shaders work ok, but I still need to fix some minor bump shader flickering.

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So this is not gemfx?