Parallaxed Grass

Parallax Occlusion Mapped grass in the Source Engine via ImGarfield's shader from the HL2World forums.

This no longer functions as of Source 2. I'll see what I can do when Valve decides to release the OrangeBox Shader SDK.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Garrysmod
• parallax
• mapping
• source
• engine
• half-life
• half
• life
• grass
• occlusion
• shader
• shaders
• garry's
• mod
• garrys

[OneQuarterLife]

Just want to throw this out there:

This video was shot on an ATI x800, which was able to do this at a good 50 FPS.

[madafaka818]

Holy shit! It's amazing, truly amazing. Looks like real. I'm really glad I found your videos.

[OneQuarterLife]

Thanks.

[swazidoughman]

soon having Polygons will be obsolete & the whole game will just be very steep Parallax maps (jk)

[ecreif]

i dont think so you have huge limitation with parallax mapping.. you cant go "into" the texture nor you can display 3d object.. if you want that you need a 3D texture for the whole game but thats incredible memory waste and not very detailed and fast...

[VineFynn]

@ecreif Tesselation fixes most of those problems.

[Scarlov87]

:O omg hahah nice :D, does it work for another software? , blender or something like that?

[xilefian]

@PairoftheSocks It tends to stop at the next anisotropy of the texture, so the higher your aniso is the further it goes

[xalener]

Too bad this doesn't work anymore.

[xilefian]

holy shit this is an amazing idea! Why has no-one else thought of bloody parallaxed grass???????

[AlexxSR]

HELLO I MISS GMOD. So badly.

[deathray393]

How do you get this? Could you send me a map with it in it?

[Jphthe2]

What does Parallaxed mean?

[Trampboy931]

Pass that around m8, I still play around on source 2003 and I would enjoy this!

[PairoftheSocks]

Are you rendering this at a distance as well? Cant really tell by the quality of video, but apparently games are supposed to have problems rendering parallax occlusion at angle at a distance.