We are trying to keep it that way. Trust me, you won't believe your eyes. Check new water renderings of MGE. Latest MGE beta revision is available at sourceforge.
Are you aware of the MGE XE project? I will incorporate it in MGE XE when it's finished. It has the "time" variable I was waiting for. Maybe Hrnchamd can include it too. It is only one line of code. :)
Well, I ditched the idea of using existed cloud textures and will provide a procedural one, although you can still use the texture from all sky mods. But I can not guarantee the quality of those textures.
PS. If fixed the blending issues mostly, it is exactly how I want it now. You won't notice it, but it will be there. It is when you don't use it, you will notice what's missing! :) The empty cell problems though and water interaction still needs work and might exceed my skills.
Just wanted to clear, when I said "quality" above, I didn't mean artistic quality... ;) Shadow map *quality* suffers from low resolution while going higher resolution would bring a performance hit. A good compromise is using a special low resolution procedural one which would not show many artifacts. I meant as a shadow map, which those texture mods aren't meant for. It is a technical issue. I apologize for any misunderstanding.
@vtastek Did you help make this mod cause its amazing. Also if you did, would you ever consider making a multiplayer mod. Vanilla multiplayer so that if one player does a quest no one else can. I heard it was impossible to do this but its worth a shot.
@M167641 I made this myself but it isn't finished yet. (too many problems for me to solve) You should check MGE XE project, it has static shadows now and maybe it will have cloud shadows later. For your multiplayer request, check "project aedra".
I meant I fixed them. Fog now applies correctly but empty cells are still there. It would be better if devs add it natively to water shader, because the color needs to be multiplied with water colors.
That. It is an empty cell in Morrowind. MGE doesn't create empty cells(for performance?) so it doesn't have depth-position data hence no shadow casting. I have to figure it out too with fog masking.
It is MGE and they are kind of fake. As long as we don't do volumetric clouds, real thing is not needed anyway. :)
I am a little sidetracked by other things(since last 23th). There is one thing missing, the scroll speed control. When the variable I was waiting for added, I can finished it.
Personally, I absolutely LOVE the shadows on the distant mountains. It looks like fog is swirling through the deep valleys... Like a Chinese painting. Beautiful.
Looks good. I was going to say the cloud shadows themselves seemed a bit too high-frequency, but maybe that's just a product of how high up the camera is. Out of curiosity, do you handle this before, during or after fogging?
Are you working on volumetric clouds for this?
annuna 1 month ago
@annuna, no. I still couldn't fix the issues with cloud shadows. :(
But I don't think it would be significantly harder than animated grass. It is a possible feature.
vtastek 1 month ago
Ahh.. good ol' morrowind, I miss those days.. this shit was high tech back in the days
cracktober 1 year ago
@cracktober,
We are trying to keep it that way. Trust me, you won't believe your eyes. Check new water renderings of MGE. Latest MGE beta revision is available at sourceforge.
vtastek 1 year ago
@vtastek you're not one of those hipsters who won't play Skyrim simply because "it isn't Morrowind," are you?
MapleLeafAce 4 months ago
@MapleLeafAce, I will play it because it is "more like Morrowind"™. ;)
vtastek 4 months ago
@vtastek haha good to hear, good to hear :P
MapleLeafAce 4 months ago
!!!
HermanoJemane 1 year ago
@HermanoJemane,
??? :)
Check/search "MGE XE" videos for more shadows.
vtastek 1 year ago
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Hey vtastek, are u a member of the MGE team?
Would it be possible to integrate this into the next MGE version? I mean this is a major breakthrough! It should be included!!!
Thx for ur work,
Chriz
chriz110486 1 year ago
Hey vtastek, are u a member of the MGE team?
Would it be possible to integrate this into the next MGE version? I mean this is a major breakthrough! It should be included!!!
Thx for ur work,
Chriz
chriz110486 1 year ago
@chriz110486,
Are you aware of the MGE XE project? I will incorporate it in MGE XE when it's finished. It has the "time" variable I was waiting for. Maybe Hrnchamd can include it too. It is only one line of code. :)
vtastek 1 year ago
Hey, vtastek, is this going to be possible with all sky mods or are you using Starwarsguy's skies?
EnzoDragon 1 year ago
@EnzoDragon,
Well, I ditched the idea of using existed cloud textures and will provide a procedural one, although you can still use the texture from all sky mods. But I can not guarantee the quality of those textures.
PS. If fixed the blending issues mostly, it is exactly how I want it now. You won't notice it, but it will be there. It is when you don't use it, you will notice what's missing! :) The empty cell problems though and water interaction still needs work and might exceed my skills.
vtastek 1 year ago
Just wanted to clear, when I said "quality" above, I didn't mean artistic quality... ;) Shadow map *quality* suffers from low resolution while going higher resolution would bring a performance hit. A good compromise is using a special low resolution procedural one which would not show many artifacts. I meant as a shadow map, which those texture mods aren't meant for. It is a technical issue. I apologize for any misunderstanding.
vtastek 1 year ago
@vtastek Did you help make this mod cause its amazing. Also if you did, would you ever consider making a multiplayer mod. Vanilla multiplayer so that if one player does a quest no one else can. I heard it was impossible to do this but its worth a shot.
M167641 10 months ago
@M167641 I made this myself but it isn't finished yet. (too many problems for me to solve) You should check MGE XE project, it has static shadows now and maybe it will have cloud shadows later. For your multiplayer request, check "project aedra".
vtastek 10 months ago
@EnzoDragon,
I meant I fixed them. Fog now applies correctly but empty cells are still there. It would be better if devs add it natively to water shader, because the color needs to be multiplied with water colors.
vtastek 1 year ago
What is the glitch in the water in 0:30 in the upper right corner?
dlakodlak 1 year ago
@dlakodlak,
That. It is an empty cell in Morrowind. MGE doesn't create empty cells(for performance?) so it doesn't have depth-position data hence no shadow casting. I have to figure it out too with fog masking.
vtastek 1 year ago
Were is the option to add them
NCWEntertainment 1 year ago
@NCWEntertainment ,
I haven't released it. I plan to before the end of this month.
vtastek 1 year ago
Never mind I found it, in the sun options.
NCWEntertainment 1 year ago
@NCWEntertainment ,
I'm confused, what were you looking for?
vtastek 1 year ago
i was looking for the option to make the clouds block light.
NCWEntertainment 1 year ago
@NCWEntertainment
as you found it how do yu make the clouds block the sun? is it in mge?
vtastek
is the cloud shadows ready for a release?
speaker6060 1 year ago
@speaker6060
It is MGE and they are kind of fake. As long as we don't do volumetric clouds, real thing is not needed anyway. :)
I am a little sidetracked by other things(since last 23th). There is one thing missing, the scroll speed control. When the variable I was waiting for added, I can finished it.
vtastek 1 year ago
@vtastek
Good thing I just had another look at this video and read your comment, it's been a while so I was starting to fear that it didn't work out somehow :D
I'm sure it'll be worth the wait ;)
Povuh 1 year ago
Hope it's not gona rain.
Looks great!!
Trinitrotoluo 2 years ago
Personally, I absolutely LOVE the shadows on the distant mountains. It looks like fog is swirling through the deep valleys... Like a Chinese painting. Beautiful.
SKAEPSZODRAZ 2 years ago
I think I encountered another Youtube bug. It doesn't show up in searches. I may have to reupload this.
vtastek 2 years ago
You have to wait a bit of time before it'll show up in searches.
starwarsguy9 2 years ago
Finally, it showed up. But look at the related videos, they are not related at all except 3 of them. I think it has to do with the raw file name.
vtastek 2 years ago
type the video title in the discription and the tags, thiss is awsome btw, i will be downloading this for sure =)
spacecoke 2 years ago
search engine seems to go off not just tags but what is in the description too
spacecoke 2 years ago
Thanks for the tip.
butterfly effect - dc ending, really! Wonder how they are related. :P
BTW, your video series are amazing. HDR 2 + Gimp, very good combo.
vtastek 2 years ago
Looks good. I was going to say the cloud shadows themselves seemed a bit too high-frequency, but maybe that's just a product of how high up the camera is. Out of curiosity, do you handle this before, during or after fogging?
InvalidPointer 2 years ago
I pushed the fog far away. Shadows wasn't taking fog into account. I will fix it too.
vtastek 2 years ago
@vtastek Sounds good. You can probably bake this into the fog pass and save a lot of fillrate.
InvalidPointer 2 years ago
just a little slower and it'll be perfect!
angeltiger1986 2 years ago
He probably sped up the timescale to show the effect.
starwarsguy9 2 years ago
Actually this is the slowest I can get it to work. 'tickcounts' variable doesn't work as intended for me.
BTW, shadows are not random, they are from your sky texture, SWG. :)
vtastek 2 years ago
Working on it.
vtastek 2 years ago