Which paths there are to get a crisp look

vvvv beta question
#1

I am playing around with a draggable world to get a better unstanding of the 3d things

right click drags the world and a couple of buttons around.

ok, my questions:
how can I get a better seam with the phongdirectional node. when I’m increasing the x resolution of the sphere it will be better, but not perfect.

how can I improve the resolution of the quads and the text nodes, or should I do this thing with 3d objects? the scene should look more crisp…

the fog in the renderstate queue doesn’t work. erverything gets white. (in the 4 room note it looks fine, I didn’t see my mistake.

How can I add shadows or some glows? Should I use things like the MRE? where can I get more infos an this point?

vvvv_drehung.zip (418.5 kB)

#2

Hallo mister gap,

In the patch you attached, I don’t see any Texts or Quads, and the ´seam´ looks okay, all I see is a globe with a pan/tilt slider.

@ DEVS: STILL WANT A FEATURE SO HE CAN JUST COLLECT ALL THE FILES OF THE CURRENT PATCH!! (and give a warning that it ignores dynamic links)

Now, the good news, we already have an interactive globe, so check this folder in girlpower: girlpower\IO\Web\04_VVVV User Map Example

I did some shadows for my beginners clock tutorials, so learn all about renderpasses here: bonus-tutorial-the-clock-3-add-shadows

#3

f… wrong zip.

I’ll have a look at the map example and your shadow tutorial.

thanxs

vvvv_worlddrag.zip (360.8 kB)

#4

Ahh… okay, now we know what you talking about, need to check this out, not the 3D expert here ;( But enable Anti-Aliasing in the renderer, and it would be sharper.

#5

ok, the seamless sphere texture is fixed with the line Wrap0 = U inside the shader.

but how to fake some shadows…

#6

Hey,

if you want to create the illusion of the Planet having visible mountains etc you can take your dif Texture and create a Normal Map using ( for example ) xNormal -> http://www.xnormal.net/ and its Heightmap to Normalmap feature.

In VVVV u will need to use a shader with Normal/Bump features.

Heres an example i created with dynamic normal map.

sites/default/files/imagecache/large/images/nautinormal.JPG

https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/8064

Or do you mean shadows from the Textfields on the planet?

#7

shadows form the textfields on the planet would be nice