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| Atmoscat | Date: Wednesday, 20.07.2011, 23:45 | Message # 1 |
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| After discovering the cool light distortion effects in SE around black holes I was wondering, if it would be possible to add this phenomenon...
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery....948.jpg
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Thursday, 21.07.2011, 00:34 | Message # 2 |
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| Yes, it is possible. I can adapt the black hole shader to render atmosphere distortion. But it could reduce performance a bit.
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| Atmoscat | Date: Thursday, 21.07.2011, 08:32 | Message # 3 |
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| SpaceEngineer, that sounds great! 
Regarding the possible performance impact, perhaps you could include it as an optional feature in the graphic setting dialogue window...
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Thursday, 21.07.2011, 11:53 | Message # 4 |
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| In addition to a drop in performance, it consumes a lot of videocard memory. This is a screen-space post effect, so it needs a render buffer, that is equal to screen render buffer. So if you have a full hd monitor, floating-point RGBA render buffer takes 1920*1080*4*4 = 31.64 Mb of video memory. Default render buffer already takes 2*31.64 = 63.28 Mb, so all these buffers takes 100 Mb of video memory. If you have only 512 Mb of it -taking into account other buffers and static data- then you have only 150-200 Mb for cache of planetary textures and procedural stars. This is not enough for normal working of engine, the planets and stars will never stop to load, even at LOD -3. Now you see the reason for high system requirements... And the reason for low detail of black hole effect: The black hole render buffer is only 1024*1024 to save memory (it can be adjusted in main.cfg, TRBlackHoleResolution parameter).
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| Atmoscat | Date: Thursday, 21.07.2011, 23:31 | Message # 5 |
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| Okay, thanks for the insight!
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