http://www.malmer.nu coding for 3ds max and beyond Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:33:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I continued developing my method for SSAO and worked a bit on making it look better over a series of frames in an animation. So basically I ended up generating the same sphere for any given number of samples (same random seed) and then rotate the samples using by reflecting ... http://www.malmer.nu/index.php/2008-04-11_energy-minimization-is-your-friend/ Ok, now it is time to actually show how the method I use works. This is C style code, but with some changes from my original code, for clarity. That is because my code handles the many layers of the 3ds max G-buffer and how pixels are weighted and works ... http://www.malmer.nu/index.php/2008-04-09_ssao-c-style-pseudo-source-code/ To complement the previous post. Here is a "pretty" render of the SSAO effect. This also utilizes my custom DOF/motionblur plugin that, contrary to the crappy built-in 3ds max versions, handles both at the same time and with better sampling and high dynamic range support. All built into a sweet ... http://www.malmer.nu/index.php/2008-04-09_ssao-pretty-render/ Crysis introduced it, the world said wow!, and from there everyone wanted to do their own 3d-engine screen space ambient occlusion. I implemented it in 3ds max as a render effect using the fine article written by Iñigo Quilez, and with a little help from a render element I managed to ... http://www.malmer.nu/index.php/2008-04-09_screen-space-ambient-occlusion-ssao/ Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! So this is how it starts. Well, I plan to not update this blog too often, I might as well say that from the beginning. I will, however, try to post things that are more than ... http://www.malmer.nu/index.php/2008-04-09_hello-world/