Complex UV Layout in Maya
Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character
#
1
30-03-2006
, 11:25 AM
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,257
CrySIS FarCry2...
cryengine 2 video
dóh wont u love to have all those features one "hardware renderer" button press away? its a pity that gelato didnt actually delivered...
#
2
30-03-2006
, 08:27 PM
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 408
Some game companies have "render farms" specifically to precompile shaders.
#
3
31-03-2006
, 06:50 AM
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,257
you mean they have to to pregenerate maps for lighing, normals, irradiance,translucence,caustics(just as it happens when you hit render on mr)... but, you see, in the crytek2 demo you get at the very least soft shadows,HDRI,SSS, Volumetric Fog, volumetric clouds, Depth of Field, and motion blur(just the same as if you toy with the DXSDK)... all in real time, and looks to me that those cant be precalculated...(not to mention they promise every plant is a dynamic collidable object and all the buildings and prop models breakable!) i just was wondering: if they can do those on the gpu... whi i have to wait 5 to 20 minutes for the cpu to make each one of the same each frame?
Last edited by dragonfx; 31-03-2006 at 10:11 AM.
#
4
31-03-2006
, 10:16 PM
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 408
Erm -- they precalculated but not in the way you're thinking of. Basically -- each shader is a program... and every program needs to be compiled -- that's what they do. In Maya -- shaders are NOT programs... thus they are run without being compiled (which is slow... the GPU doesn't have a specific compiled program to run...).Originally posted by dragonfx
yeah im spoiled... my point is: i want to be spoiled even more, now!, as opposed to in a few years...
you mean they have to to pregenerate maps for lighing, normals, irradiance,translucence,caustics(just as it happens when you hit render on mr)... but, you see, in the crytek2 demo you get at the very least soft shadows,HDRI,SSS, Volumetric Fog, volumetric clouds, Depth of Field, and motion blur(just the same as if you toy with the DXSDK)... all in real time, and looks to me that those cant be precalculated...(not to mention they promise every plant is a dynamic collidable object and all the buildings and prop models breakable!) i just was wondering: if they can do those on the gpu... whi i have to wait 5 to 20 minutes for the cpu to make each one of the same each frame?
To rephrase -- shaders in games and shaders in Maya are two different things. Games shaders are mini, precomputed programs (they may be realtime, but they're precomputed programs)
Last edited by Phopojijo; 31-03-2006 at 10:19 PM.
#
5
01-04-2006
, 08:25 AM
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,257
take SSS faking on a hardware shader... got the example, breezed trough the code... (admitedly didnt understand most of it...) hit compile... wait a pair of seconds, hit preview: the supplied model of a butterfly works perfect, hunt for the model name on the code, substitute for my own .x hit compile, one second, hit preview: black... read the comments... oh a map of how much the light goes trough the model has to be pregenerated... THAT took 14 minutes to pregenerate with a tool supplied...
My problem still is managing to integrate .fx(s) on my render pipeline in a way that is useful...
the fact that .fx are just text files that are complied on realtime by the cg dll and can be previwed almost instantly even on the maya work window leads me to think that (at least "old tech") shaders take very little power to compile
whats more: the fact that you can go to the nicely labeled "shaders" folder of DOOM3/battlefield2, etc open the files in there with a text editor and read (altough understand/modify is another matter enterly) the code leds me to believe STRONGLY that it doesnt takes so much to complie even on modern engines...
Last edited by dragonfx; 01-04-2006 at 08:58 AM.
Posting Rules Forum Rules
Similar Threads
Topics
New tutorial - Create tileable textures from photos. Photoshop to Alchemist to Maya 2
By David
Site News & Announcements
3
Free Courses
Full Courses
VFX News
How computer animation was used 30 years ago to make a Roger Rabbit short
On 2022-07-18 14:30:13
Sneak peek at Houdini 19.5
On 2022-07-18 14:17:59
VFX Breakdown The Man Who Fell To Earth
On 2022-07-15 13:14:36
Resident Evil - Teaser Trailer
On 2022-05-13 13:52:25
New cloud modeling nodes for Bifrost
On 2022-05-02 20:24:13
MPC Showreel 2022
On 2022-04-13 16:02:13