3d web fest

[Samuel Girardin]

Hi guys, 

 

My project Character Study (http://www.visualiser.fr/Babylon/character/default.htm) will be showcase at the 3d web fest in San Francisco the  May 13th 2015. That's pretty cool. I'm about 12 hours of flight of SF, so someone of the web3dfest team will do it for me. More info here : http://www.3dwebfest.com/

 

 

Cheers !

 

sam

[Temechon]

Congrats You really deserve it, your demo is awesome !

[Samuel Girardin]

And for this very special occasion I will port character study to bjs 2.1 (was 1.14)  and [edit : maybe  ] embed oimo in a worker. 

[JCPalmer]

If you are going to do that, check changes in shadows.  DK "leaked" his SIMD demo.  The scene is very similar from a shadow point of view.  The shadows seem better than yours. http://www.babylonjs.com/simd.html

[JCPalmer]

Duh, a reflection is not a shadow.

[Samuel Girardin]

@jcpalmer   But it's true my shadow are quite bad in 1.14 version. I will see if I can improve it with 2.1.

[JCPalmer]

My first thought was, based on the 2.1 update description for shadows:

 - Complete shadows code rework: New bias property for ShadowGenerator, new orthogonal shadows for directional shadows,   automatic projection size for directional lights, new BlurVarianceShadowMap filter.    See [demo](http://www.babylonjs.com/?SOFTSHADOWS). Documentation updated [here](http://babylondoc.azurewebsites.net/page.php?p=22151)  ([deltakosh](http://www.github.com/deltakosh))

Are there any improvements just switching to 2.1?

[Samuel Girardin]

@jcpalmer

 

It's done, it s a perfect past of the 1.14 version. I made the same change in 2.1 that I made in 1.14 (very minor change). Shadows don't render the same way.

 

1.14 is here

 

2.1 is here

 

For the shadow here is the only declaration  :   

 Basis.shadowGenerator = new BABYLON.ShadowGenerator(2048 , this.light);  

sam

[GameMonetize]

You can use shadowGenerator.useBlurVarianceShadowMap = true

[Samuel Girardin]

I ve already did try that, it s better, I have a shared  desktop with a guy from autodesk (he will showcase for me my project), and we will check the performance issues  with this new setting (depending of the hardware he has..)

[Dad72]

Hi Sam,

 

Maybe adding the bias to 0 for the useBlurVarianceShadowMap 

Basis.shadowGenerator.useBlurVarianceShadowMap = true;Basis.shadowGenerator.bias = 0;

And put the light less in height  (position.y: 3000 is much)

this.light.position = new BABYLON.Vector3(100, 100, 50);