Relighting Doom v3.31b [Updated 4/8/22]

[thugsta]

Amazing work. Good to see you back.

I was tweaking this behind the scenes to squeeze some extra performance out of it but good to see the master has returned to his work progress and that progress is looking spectacular to say the least.

[Hey Doomer_]

how the heck are those shadows not expensive

I expect dialed down this will work on a potato.

[mamaluigisbagel]

I expect dialed down this will work on a potato.

I guess I'll be testing that. Look forward to, as the most recent version lags my game to a crawl even on small maps.

[Hey Doomer_]

Another teaser:

https://i.postimg.cc/3xyDdRqS/map08.gif

Example of performance with multiple shadows in the same player view.

Getting closer to a release.

[Dan_The_Noob]

can you fire a light over a room just PACKED with enemies? or run through a dynamic light nightmare of a hallway? (obviously the pack would be ideal for normal situations, just curious)

[hitmanx]

Wow awesome!

Is it possible to have the shadow always underneath the sprite? It's great but looks a bit funny on that pile of gibs

[Hey Doomer_]

can you fire a light over a room just PACKED with enemies? or run through a dynamic light nightmare of a hallway? (obviously the pack would be ideal for normal situations, just curious)

Qualified yes depending on settings. Cvars include which entity groups have shadow-generators, how many, how powerful, and how far away they work. All these affect performance.

Only shadows the player sees respond; most generators are ignored. Obviously this situation varies, but generally it's big generators such as missiles that fire shadow code.

Dynamic lights are somewhat irrelevant here. Shadow-generators are added to objects in gldef lumps and ignore dynamic lights. Dynamic lights added to a map as decoration will not generate sprite shadows.

Still early in testing and tweaking.

[cosmos10040]

These look awesome ! Relighting already works great on deltatouch with shader patch. Can't wait for this update.

[Hey Doomer_]

What are good maps to test this with? (other than Nuts )

[Dan_The_Noob]

oh i just meant overall performance, like. can you get a gif on nuts? for science

[Hey Doomer_]

More progress, more teasers. Accounting for modern effects in Brutal & Beautiful Doom, all default settings:

https://i.postimg.cc/Vvc9N1sV/brutal-E1-M1.gif
https://i.postimg.cc/7LdMp0FD/brutal-MAP01.gif
https://i.postimg.cc/wvNcH3zN/beautiful-E1-M2.gif
https://i.postimg.cc/htGLv2gc/beautiful-MAP10.gif

[Dan_The_Noob]

hey, enough teasing. when do we get a busted version to complain about here?

[Hey Doomer_]

hey, enough teasing. when do we get a busted version to complain about here?

Still working on optimizing and testing. Should have a video soon.

This seems compatible with all modern gore effects, explosions, etc. The shadows are still sprite based however. I'm also working on accounting for different geometry, and I have not tested this with 3D floors. Etc. So soon.

[Hey Doomer_]

Flashlight shadows - pretty cool.

https://i.postimg.cc/PJpr8n18/flashlight-shadows.gif

Also fixed the wall angles to account for positive or negative deltas... Lots of little stuff.

[cosmos10040]

Flashlight shadows - pretty cool.

https://i.postimg.cc/PJpr8n18/flashlight-shadows.gif

Also fixed the wall angles to account for positive or negative deltas... Lots of little stuff.

Looks pretty cool, will it have an option to soften shadow edges? Pick transparency?