(12-16-2010, 02:16 PM)rainerzufalldererste Wrote: I'd love to see this grass in some maps *.*

(12-18-2010, 04:46 AM)Lee_Stricklin Wrote: Looks closer to shards of glass , still impressive though. I don't even think Crysis had that many models on screen at once.

(12-18-2010, 08:27 AM)unfa Wrote: Btw: Can't it be improved by using textures istead of models for every single leaf (?) of grass?
You could have planes with textures and that could maybe save a lot of DP's power... much less triangles IDK...

(04-14-2011, 02:07 PM)GiffE Wrote: Sorry for bumping, but I would really hope we take a second look at this. It can give a REALLY realistic effect, and its just something that most modern engines are capable of doing. As I described on #darkplaces, foliage systems can mask a very simple terrain we are limited to using by the q3bsp. It allows for creating a much more visually impressive outdoor landscape. I can only imagine how good greatwall would look with the addition of 3d grass.

I changed the model to a 3-sided polygon with a dozen blades of grass on the one plane. Just like the above I used surfacemodel to place them about the map.

Code:

textures/grass/grass1
{
    qer_editorimage textures/ground/grassdead.jpg
    surfaceparm nomarks
    //modelpath density odds minscale maxscale minangle maxangle oriented
    q3map_surfaceModel models/plants/grass/grass.md3 20 0.25 0.5 2 0 360 1
    {
        map textures/ground/grassdead.jpg
    }
    {
        map $lightmap
        rgbGen identity
        tcGen lightmap
        blendFunc filter
    }
}
textures/plants/grass/grass1
{
    nomipmaps
    nopicmip
    surfaceparm nomarks
    surfaceparm pointlight
    surfaceparm trans
    surfaceparm nonsolid
    cull none
    {
        map models/plants/grass/grass01a.tga
        blendFunc GL_SRC_ALPHA GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA
        alphaFunc GT0
        depthWrite
        rgbGen identity
    }
    {
        map $lightmap
        rgbGen identity
        tcGen lightmap
        blendFunc filter
    }
}

produces:

The problem is there is no way to cull and thin out the grass that is far away.
What I'd suggest is it possible to add this feature to the engine? Whats stopping us from adding a per-distance culled model which gets randomly placed about a given shader?
Why can't we have this shader keyword?:

Code:

dp_foliage modelpath density odds minscale maxscale minangle maxangle oriented distance-cull

This would remove the limitation on misc_models that surfacemodel has and load the models into the map at run-time.

(04-14-2011, 06:05 PM)FruitieX Wrote: Hmm, we can use LOD on misc_gamemodel already (see entities.def in the Xonotic gamepack for NetRadiant), I don't see why it couldn't be extended to this. Of course our LOD implementation lies in QuakeC afaik, and this would have to be an engine feature.