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Bart T.
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Re: Supermodel WIP Update: LeMans 24, Fighting Vipers 2, and Star Wars Trilogy
02/14/11 06:21 PM
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Those aren't the graphical glitches that I was referring to but you bring up a good point. Supermodel is effectively performing flat shading right now. The renderer supports vertex normals, of course, but I don't know how to compute them. Model 3 only stores polygon normals. In most situations, such as with inanimate objects, it's not noticeable, but on human figures, it is glaringly obvious.

Here is a screenshot of Lost World from the actual machine, courtesy of Abelardo who has been supplying me with very useful videos of this game and Scud Race to compare against:



Now compare with flat-shaded Supermodel:



Ugly, right? It's been really bugging me. Using a slightly different way to compute lighting, similar to how specular lighting is usually done, I can do a little better:



But still, the fundamental problem is missing information. A polygon normal is not sufficient. What if I search for all faces with the same vertex and interpolate the normals? The result looks perfect:



The Le Mans girls will look perfect as well using this method and even the cars in-game start to look a lot nicer. Unfortunately, this calculation is O(n^2) in polygons, and is therefore unacceptably slow. I refuse to believe that the Model 3 actually did this. But look how close it looks to the actual thing!

Looking at polygon dumps, I don't see any per-vertex attributes that could control shading or sharing of polygon normals.

It's a frustrating problem, to say the least.

Ignore the FPS, by the way. I'm developing on an old laptop with integrated graphics. Supermodel seems to run full speed on any reasonable new hardware with a dedicated video card.

Bart

Edited by Bart Trzynadlowski (02/14/11 06:25 PM)






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