3D water surface simulation with a boat, Panda 3D

[chrisxdeboy]

did this use Tessellation in any way?

[laerciop]

so good!

[Pengasius14]

When I saw this:

I was badtripping!! :D

[meisisme]

It seems to be a 2D fluid simulator where pressure is represented by the height of the vertices. Thus the unrealistic sudden bumps where waves collide.

[Stauricus]

Nice!

is Panda3D that fast in real-time?

i think Blender3D would take years to render that...

[clcheung2008]

of course. It is even several time faster with a better PC and card. There are some tricks to make this in a shader.

[narutofan9999]

@Stauricus

That's cause real time rendering is just that much faster. It sacrifices a good portion of quality in exchange though. Blender has a game engine, compare the graphics there with a render and you'll see the differences.

[youngmoneyagent]

did you use blender

[clcheung2008]

It is not related to blender. It is pure panda3d.

[ZorbatronII]

Could you please explain more, is this a module you made? Someone else made and you are simply importing? Where'd you get this.

[clcheung2008]

I created this of couse.

You can get it at panda3d forum, search for demomaster

[Kai1One]

Great job.

It's just awesone.

[chubbygoat]

looks very expensive

[clcheung2008]

yes, it is a dynamic surface calculation in fshader to create the displacement map and normal map, fed to a vshader to generate the water surface. The boat part is mainly a small enhancement on the original NVidia demo to handle the water floating.

[prorsoft]

Wow. That looks pretty sweet. How did you do it - using a displacement map that you paint on in real-time?