The Style Of Nexuiz (Updates you want)

[Lee_Stricklin]

d00d! those blur screens look pretty kick ass! I can imagine seeing something on the same level as the first one while tromping around at like 60MPH and something like the second one when you boost yourself at like 120MPH.

[mand1nga]

Never mind, I got the glsl thing to work.... What you left out is that we have to use r_glsl_postprocess_uservec1 for setting the individual options.. Now, I use "1 1 0 0" and I think it makes a pretty decent depth of field - I like it.

I do have one question though, what are the other arguments? (Arg 3 and Arg 4?).. What do they do, I mean.

I'm really sorry for the wrong cvar, I posted that late yesterday right before going to sleep. I don't know the meaning of the other parameters, but probably they are not used, you should check how the effect is done in Darkplaces. But also you probably don't want to touch that unless you want to modify the blur effect.
For more info about the glsl language see this.

[terencehill]

I've understood the right command to use, it's

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cl_cmd blurtest x y z

where x is the time, y the radius, z the power. I thought to use sv_cmd coz the help said that was the command, but the help was WRONG! That's cl_cmd, not sv_cmd. I've made a quick patch to fix it.

r_glsl_postprocess 1
r_glsl_postprocess_uservec1 "3 5 0 0" // 1st arg: radius, 2nd: power

The comment here isn't correct, since those values are the result of some operations on x y z, being y and z the real radius and power.

Anyway, for some reasons, after I've played with those cvars as Mand1nga suggested, the blur effect was working, now that I've found the right command, it does NOTHING!!! WTH! It should change r_glsl_postprocess and r_glsl_postprocess_uservec1, but they stay 0. I've tried many values... I dont get it...

[terencehill]

d00d! those blur screens look pretty kick ass! I can imagine seeing something on the same level as the first one while tromping around at like 60MPH and something like the second one when you boost yourself at like 120MPH.

I don't like this blur effect, the effect that rly kicks ass is the MOTION blur. It blurs only the part of the screen moving, the faster the movement, the stronger the effect. An example is the wonderful video Octobre by Pavlvs (it's applied by a video editor, not by the game, obviously).

[Samual]

d00d! those blur screens look pretty kick ass! I can imagine seeing something on the same level as the first one while tromping around at like 60MPH and something like the second one when you boost yourself at like 120MPH.

I don't like this blur effect, the effect that rly kicks ass is the MOTION blur. It blurs only the part of the screen moving, the faster the movement, the stronger the effect. An example is the wonderful video Octobre by Pavlvs (it's applied by a video editor, not by the game, obviously).

I feel the same way. Love the video. But I do like the depth of field blur too. Where objects further away are blurred compared to closer objects.... I accomplish this with:

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r_glsl_postprocess_uservec1 "1 1 0 0"

I think it looks nice, what's your opinion on it?

[mand1nga]

r_glsl_postprocess 1
r_glsl_postprocess_uservec1 "3 5 0 0" // 1st arg: radius, 2nd: power

The comment here isn't correct, since those values are the result of some operations on x y z, being y and z the real radius and power.

No, I'am right, as the time parameter works only with the blurtest command and handled from qc.

I feel the same way. Love the video. But I do like the depth of field blur too. Where objects further away are blurred compared to closer objects.... I accomplish this with:

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r_glsl_postprocess_uservec1 "1 1 0 0"

I think it looks nice, what's your opinion on it?

I guess it is too light, maybe the radius can be increased according to the damage received

[terencehill]

r_glsl_postprocess 1
r_glsl_postprocess_uservec1 "3 5 0 0" // 1st arg: radius, 2nd: power

The comment here isn't correct, since those values are the result of some operations on x y z, being y and z the real radius and power.

No, I'am right, as the time parameter works only with the blurtest command and handled from qc.

If u r right then, in main.qc code these variable names aren't correct:

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if(cmd == "blurtest") {
      blurtest_time0 = time;
      blurtest_time1 = time + stof(argv(1)); // argv(1) is x
      blurtest_radius = stof(argv(2)); // argv(2) is y
      blurtest_power = stof(argv(3)); // argv(3) is z
   }

r_glsl_postprocess_uservec1 is generated using those variables in the file view.qc:

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   if(time > blurtest_time0 && time < blurtest_time1)
   {
      float r, t;

      t = (time - blurtest_time0) / (blurtest_time1 - blurtest_time0);
      r = t * blurtest_radius;
      f = 1 / pow(t, blurtest_power) - 1;

      cvar_set("r_glsl_postprocess", "1");
      cvar_set("r_glsl_postprocess_uservec1", strcat(ftos(r), " ", ftos(f), " 0 0"));
   }
   else
   {
      cvar_set("r_glsl_postprocess", "0");
      cvar_set("r_glsl_postprocess_uservec1", "0 0 0 0");
   }

Anyway It seems to me that there is something wrong with the time (or is it an intended behaviour?), that could be the reason why the command cl_cmd blurtest doesn't work and set always r_glsl_postprocess and r_glsl_postprocess_uservec1 to 0.

[Samual]

Alright well I did something wrong here, I wrote a small AccumBuffer and something just isn't working. Halp!!!!!

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extern cvar_t r_motionblur;
extern cvar_t r_frametime

void DrawAccumBlur (void)
{
   static int blurstate = 0;
   float accblur;
   static float damagetime = -1.0f;
   if (!r_motionblur.value) return;
   if (cl.stats[STAT_HEALTH] <= 0)
   {
      accblur = 0.75f;
   }
   else if (cl.cshifts[CSHIFT_DAMAGE].percent)
   {
      accblur = 0.75f;
      damagetime = 0.5f;
   }
   else if (damagetime >= 0.0f)
   {
      damagetime -= r_frametime;
      accblur = 0.75f;
   }
   else if (cl.cshifts[CSHIFT_CONTENTS].percent)
   {
      accblur = 0.666f;
   }
   else accblur = -1.0f;

   if (accblur <= 0.0f)
   {
      blurstate = 0;
      return;
   }

   if (!blurstate)
   {
      glAccum (GL_LOAD, 1.0f);
   }
   else
   {
      glAccum (GL_MULT, accblur);
      glAccum (GL_ACCUM, 1.0f - accblur);
      glAccum (GL_RETURN, 1.0f);
   }

   blurstate = 1;
}


And don't forget to add to the render

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DrawAccumBlur ();

But something still doesn't work. If someone is able to get this to work, please tell me how. (And make a video?)

[merlijn]

About the server rating thing: Let's not do this. It will only cause the already popular servers to become more and more popular leaving many other (new) servers empty. Not to mention that a system for this would generally be quite easy to abuse in many different ways. Sorting servers by means of the bookmarks, ping and empty/full switches is more than enough. Only thing I'd personally like is to have bookmarked servers always shown (full/empty don't affect them).

About the authentication thing: there is a long thread that has been moved to the trash for offtopic nonsense. Despite this setback there is a lot of good (implementation) discussion. Doing this the right way will be fairly heavy job, but I'd be happy to talk about the concepts of how this should work.

[Samual]

About the server rating thing: Let's not do this. It will only cause the already popular servers to become more and more popular leaving many other (new) servers empty. Not to mention that a system for this would generally be quite easy to abuse in many different ways. Sorting servers by means of the bookmarks, ping and empty/full switches is more than enough. Only thing I'd personally like is to have bookmarked servers always shown (full/empty don't affect them).

About the authentication thing: there is a long thread that has been moved to the trash for offtopic nonsense. Despite this setback there is a lot of good (implementation) discussion. Doing this the right way will be fairly heavy job, but I'd be happy to talk about the concepts of how this should work.

At the very least we need to improve the filters. More options, etc. And the authentication would probably only be possible by divs help, and we all know he isn't going to do it.. So I doubt that will actually happen (Though I would like it).