[andrewmac]

I've been working on lighting this weekend. I've got normal maps (on the floor) and metalness/glosiness in however in this progress video the whole scene has hardcoded metalness/glossiness so that's why it all looks shiny:



I still have to add metalness and glossiness to the gbuffer before those maps can be loaded in and/or fixed values per material can be supplied. The equations I have in place can easily take environment and irradiance maps so I might try making environment map volumes that capture those either in real time and/or bake them.

[buckmaster]

Looks nice!

[andrewmac]

Early version of environment mapping, everything in the scene is set to 0.8 metallic, 0.8 glossiness:



Still trying to get all the equations right (spoiler: they're wrong at the moment, but getting closer) and then I'll add some volumes for generating static cubemaps for areas. Should allow pretty cheap and good looking lighting. I don't plan on going into real-time GI until later when the engine is more stable. Much more pressing matters. However, I will try to do SSR sooner rather than later so we can have some real-time reflections to go with the baked ones.

[andrewmac]

Still not quite perfect but we're making progress for sure:

[andrewmac]

I finally replaced the crappy simple shadowmapping with something more robust. It's Cascaded Variance ShadowMaps. There's a couple of options that can be tweaked related to them. I'll refine them later and perhaps expand them to expontential variance shadow maps.

Cascade debug:


Early version with no blur:


Again, no blur:


Blurred. Getting better, still at 512 per cascade:


Blurred at 1024 per cascade, good enough for now:

[andrewmac]

Early version of screenspace reflections:

[andrewmac]

Got the SSR shader in a more stable state. In the previous screenshot as you flew around the reflections went all wacky, but I got it to the point where they're actually video worthy:



Keep in mind it's lacking error correction, blurring, and actually taking metalness into account. Right now everything in the scene reflects.

[andrewmac]

I put in some error handling on the SSR shader. It works by calculating how much the angle of reflection is coming towards the camera as well as how close we're getting to the edge of the screen while travelling the ray. It fades smoothly based on those factors. I also increased the step size in the ray which means you can see more in the reflections now. The downside is increased banding in the reflections. I have a few ideas on how to fix that, we'll see how they go.

[andrewmac]

Finally implemented a proper PBR lighting setup. Lambert diffuse, GGX specular, IBL for ambient.

[LukasPJ]

That's all fine and dandy, but what about puppy shader?