Huge Spaceship v2 with Unity 3D

Space 3d | Posted by admin
Mar 31 2009

I’ve purchased Unity 3D that is finally the kind of tool I was waiting for.

Now I can move forward and create some of the projects I have in my head. This huge spaceship is one of them.

check here to run the demo on your computer! Works for MAC and PC :

http://www.nikkoid.com/Huge_Spaceship.html

Huge 3D Spaceship v1 with C4

Space 3d | Posted by admin
Nov 10 2008

This is my first experiment using the Huge Spaceship model. I got a lot of trouble importing the model into C4 3d engine. I had to optimize it to 3 Millions Poly and finally, so I could import it.

I got a lot of trouble to find a nice texture, C4 is very limited or I don’t get it. I’ll try to improve the result later.

Testing Leadwerks 3d engine

Misc | Posted by admin
Aug 10 2008

Here is what I’ve done in tweaking the island demo!

sandbox1 Testing Leadwerks 3d engine
sandbox2 Testing Leadwerks 3d engine
sandbox7 Testing Leadwerks 3d engine
sandbox5 Testing Leadwerks 3d engine
sandbox8 Testing Leadwerks 3d engine

Morphcity v1.0 : demo for the Blitz3dfr Challenge N°3

Old Archives | Posted by admin
Dec 24 2004

v1.1 : Upon requests from the Blitz3dfr users, I’ve made a shorter path
and I’ve changed the camera range.


Morphcity008 Morphcity v1.0 : demo for the Blitz3dfr Challenge N°3

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## Morph City Demo v1.1 ##

b download Morphcity v1.0 : demo for the Blitz3dfr Challenge N°3I’m
proud to release a demo made for the
Blitz3dfr.com
challenge N°3, launch by Filax.

The main demo limit
was to fit in 8Mb.

This demo features state of the art graphics, and its theme is Morphing. Morphing with 3d fonts, Metaballs, and Morph of a character from Orc to Human. The demo take place in a city with rain, lightning, hi-quality sound fx, music and more… Note : the Orc is totally naked! This is why this demo needs parental advisory.

You can download the >>demo FREE here.<<

Minimum requirements :

P III or better, ADM Athlon .
Directx 7 compatible video card with 128 Mb of RAM.
512 Mb of RAM

Usage :

Just download the Morphcity.exe and click to see the demo.

Some function keys:

F9 : save a screenshot
F10 : change to free mode. In this mode, you control the mouse
and you can visit the city as you which.
F11 : go back to demo mode from the free mode.
3 : if you press this key on the main keyboard you’ll launch a
lightning about 500m away around the camera.
ESC : stop the demo.

More tests with water

Old Archives | Posted by admin
Oct 24 2004

I’ve re-worked the water. I’ve added refraction, depth of sea and various options that get me very close to a realistic water. It takes about the same time as a regular cubemapping, but the result is much better. Here are  some pictures.

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Raytracing on the GPU

Old Archives | Posted by admin
Oct 09 2004

It is amazing what we can do with the GPU! Using Pixel Shaders I display some basic Sphere, in real time. I remember a time where it was taking 20 minutes with Povray do just calculate one frame!

First test with water

Old Archives | Posted by admin
Oct 05 2004

I’ve programmed the water : animation, caustics, reflexions, and an optimized cube mapping, faked cubemapping options.  Also when you go undersea, and have a very realistic real time screen deformation and the reflections on the water swaps as well.  You can change the caustics contrast, color, blending. The 3 levels of textures (optional) and reflections can be blended together. An option can make the textures seamless automatically. bluring (soft and hard) can be applied automatically at the textures load time.    The 2 technics used for doing the cube mapping (and minimize the CPU use) are as follow :

1 – accurate : each side of the cube is  rendered in a different frame, and step every 2 frames (one frame calculate 1 face second frame do nothing).

2- faked : the cubemap is created at the program start and has only the skydome texture, no objects and terrain reflexions can be processed.

With the method 1, I get 24 FPS with my FX5200, with the faked one it jumps to 37 FPS. (about 20 000 poly and 30 objects). Without these optimization the frame rate was about 7-9 FPS.

Check the pictures to have more info. Note in these pictures the shadows have been removed and the lens flare as well.

RGamesysSnap6627.98 002 First test with water

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Lens Flares added to the gamesystem

Old Archives | Posted by admin
Sep 10 2004

I’ve added a total Lens Flare and sun simulation with collision to the Engine. I’ve renamed the engine : Gamesys.

Features include real time lens Flare creation and modification,
placement in the sky over the skydome, collision and hide behind par of
the landscape or even windows in meshes. Load, save lens Flares. Lens
Flare settings are also saved in the TED map.

Gamesys01 Lens Flares added to the gamesystem

Volumetric fog

Old Archives | Posted by admin
Aug 25 2004
I’ve also changed the Skybox with a SkySphere that is in my
opinion much better. Here is the result.

TerraEdVolFog 000 Volumetric fog

I’ve added the volumetric fog in the Camera dialog. You can control the
color of the fog, its height, transparency, the wind/smoke animation
speed, the texture scale

TerraEdVolFog 001 Volumetric fog

When you get closer to the fog, the overall fog parameters are changing
to emulate a real fog density.

TerraEdVolFog 003 Volumetric fog

At the time you enter into the fog, you have some trouble to see
anything.

TerraEdVolFog 004 Volumetric fog

When you are under the fog you stillhave a lot of fog, the sky is
darker, but you can see the closest objects.

TerraEdVolFog 005 Volumetric fog

TerraEdVolFog 006 Volumetric fog

Now we go out from the fog!

TerraEdVolFog 007 Volumetric fog

Grass into TerraED

Old Archives | Posted by admin
Aug 19 2004
terraedgrass 300x240 Grass into TerraED

TerraEd Grass

I’ve integrated Blitzgrass to TerraEd. It took me about 2 days. A small picture of the Grass editor v1

With this first version, you can control the Grass, color type, transparency, size, the number of grass to add, remove all grass, the lowest and highest point where to place grass.

You can also select with check boxes which grass to add, or change. So it is easy to add water grass around the water for example.

Click on the picture to see the 1280×1024 original picture.