Web Player Plays Differently

[makkar]

Hello,

With this latest web-player update, there is a difference. The web player seems not to show bloom PRE. And everything is on Application Default in the Options Panel.

Just compare the two pictures.

[makkar]

And this is how it should look like, as in the standalone player.

[makkar]

If not Bloom, than it could be dynamic lighting, but I am more sure about Bloom.

Makkar

[NiCoX]

Hi,

How is lit the ground ? Vertex color, lightmap (16 or 24 bpp), or dynamic light (with or without normal map) ?

[makkar]

The ground is a complete baked texture + a texture of snow with Shiva generated UV for fine detail in modulate mode.

There is no lightmap done in Shiva.

A dynamic sphere light is there above the tree which lightens the ground around.

[NiCoX]

Hmmm I found that there is actually a bug in the Direct3D codepath, about Saturation and Levels post rendering effects. Could you confirm this is the same problem (so remove the post render effects and retry) ?

(and I suppose your WebPlayer is using Direct3D (render mode 1), and your Standalone is using OpenGL (render mode 2))

[makkar]

I don't exactly understand how I should confirm this. Should I disable post render effects in Shiva and export it again?

These numbers aren't the same as in Scene Viewer/Render Settings, right?

But as I can see, the snowman does have bloom.

I have to add, that a second terrain mesh layer is also there just above the visible one, and that has the snow specular effect.

[NiCoX]

Sorry, if you could do that :

In ShiVa, verify if you use Saturation and/or Levels post rendering effects (in the AmbienceEditor). If it is the case, remove them, export, and test.

You can also change the rendering mode inside ShiVa and restart it (1=Direct3D, and 2=OpenGL).

:)

[makkar]

Inside Shiva, using hardware mode 1 gives me the same bad appearance as the web player. In mode 2 everything is all right.

I removed Levels, exported it, nothing changed in the web-player.


In the past, the two players showed the same image.

[NiCoX]

Is it possible to get a scene with only some objects that are bad rendered in mode 1 ?

[makkar]

Yes, I uploaded it with the "Submit Content" section.

[NiCoX]

Thanks, problem fixed. Will be available in the next WebPlayer update and ShiVa 1.7.

:)

[makkar]

Ok, thanks.

I just don't understand why you have in Shiva
1: medium quality
2: high quality.

So DirectX can't be as good as OpenGL?

In 3dsmax viewport performance is much better in DirectX mode on any system I have tried so far. Not that I would favor DirectX....

[NiCoX]

Hi,

In reality, "our Direct3D codepath" currently does exists only for compatibility reasons, and do not use shaders. So some effects are not showing in this mode. But we plan to improve it :)

PS : The WebPlayer update including the fix will be available in some minutes ;)

[broozar]

i always wondered why you ship a DX compatibility backend, since Ston3D aims to be cross-platform and DX is a windows-only technology. Plus, DirectX needs to be updated manually in most cases (since there are many IE6 out there, one must assume that those folks are using a standard XP installation with DX 8 at best, if not win2000 or NT) and OpenGL is part of the video driver, which means that it's guaranteed to be on the machine already.