New Release D3D9Client Development

[jarmonik]

can we forget the brightness of Orbiter 2016 for a moment
and talk about why the Open version have much sharper ground textures !??

Much sharper ? In which way ? I didn't notice anything unusual while testing it during development. There is a little more contrast added between terrain facing the sun and away from the sun. Or could this be micro texture filter issue, make sure it's "anisotropic" not "point".

 

[gamer19]

Much sharper ? In which way ? I didn't notice anything unusual while testing it during development. There is a little more contrast added between terrain facing the sun and away from the sun. Or could this be micro texture filter issue, make sure it's "anisotropic" not "point".

I mean looking at these two pictures

New Release - D3D9Client Development

Sorry for asking off-topic question. (I have asked the same question twice but didn't get answer) @jarmonik Do you plan to re-upload IMFD and LTMFD? Sorry, The so called "reallife" been keeping me busy and haven't had time to visit the forums. I have managed to upload IMFD 4.2.2 and 5.7 but...

www.orbiter-forum.com

 

[jarmonik]

I mean looking at these two pictures

The right one seems unnaturally flat in contrast. On moon the contrast is pretty high. You can get a flatter microtexture (almost like the right one) by setting the "Blend Mode" to "soft light".

 

[misha.physics]

In those two pictures I setted the "Blend Mode" to "normal light" both for Orbiter 2016 and OpenOrbiter. Maybe there are some other parameters that make the landscape better in OpenOrbiter.

 

[OvalDreamX]

Is it possible that at some time in the future we could get pbr shading and shadows for the vc, like we already have in the external view? Or is there some technical limitation that wont allow it?

 

[jarmonik]

Here's a development patch (only for developers) for a ray-traced VC textures. It's been a while since I last time build a binary patch so I hope I didn't forget anything. Orbiter can be downloaded from the GitHub page by clicking a small "tag" icon next to "branches" and then select "downloads". This patch is x86 build

 

[jarmonik]

Is it possible that at some time in the future we could get pbr shading and shadows for the vc, like we already have in the external view? Or is there some technical limitation that wont allow it?

Yes, it's being worked on.

 

[jarmonik]

Here's a development patch (only for developers) for a ray-traced VC textures. It's been a while since I last time build a binary patch so I hope I didn't forget anything. Orbiter can be downloaded from the GitHub page by clicking a small "tag" icon next to "branches" and then select "downloads". This patch is x86 build

 

[misha.physics]

Hi, just wanted to ask if I understand correctly that D3D9 terrain flattening isn't compatible with cubic interpolation for the surface elevation in OpenOrbiter?

 

[jarmonik]

Hi, just wanted to ask if I understand correctly that D3D9 terrain flattening isn't compatible with cubic interpolation for the surface elevation in OpenOrbiter?

It should be. I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't be.

 

[misha.physics]

It should be. I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't be.

There appears some difference between Orbiter 2016 and OpenOrbiter in this. D3D9 terrain flattening works only with linear interpolation in Orbiter 2016:



whereas in OpenOrbiter (I tested x64 build) the flatted textures dissaper with cubic interpolation at close distance (or sometimes just doesn't work at all). Linear (the 1st picture) and cubic (the 2nd one):

 

[gattispilot]

I am trying. to help someone get d3d9 working. I have downloaded and installed. But in the modules folder there was not a place to actitave d3d9. In non d3d9 graphics. They can only run RGB.
The only graphics setting I can get to work at all is the RGB Emulation and that is for the Red version of Orbiter. Any other mode crashes. The Blue icon will run, buts says it’s in the Orbiter NG (nographics) mode. Any ideas, thoughts.

 

[kuddel]

Check if following have been installed:

• DirectX Runtimes (for the DirectX 9 OS support. Higer versions of Direct X do not include the correct Direct X 9 runtimes!)
  

  Download DirectX Redist (June 2010) from Official Microsoft Download Center

  The Microsoft DirectX® End-User Runtime installs a number of runtime libraries from the legacy DirectX SDK for some games that use D3DX9, D3DX10, D3DX11, XAudio 2.7, XInput 1.3, XACT, and/or Managed DirectX 1.1. Note that this package does not modify the DirectX Runtime installed on your Windows...

  www.microsoft.com
• D3D9Client (I think that has been done, but just in case ... )

 

[DaveS]

Is there any way to make the gaps created by a normal map darker? I'm trying to create a hi-res texture Columbia and Challenger, and I am using a normal map for the tiles to simulate the tile-to-tile gap, but as you can see in the attached screenshot, the gaps doesn't look quite right with the neutral grey tone. It should be darker in my mind.

 

[Felix24]

Is there any way to make the gaps created by a normal map darker? I'm trying to create a hi-res texture Columbia and Challenger, and I am using a normal map for the tiles to simulate the tile-to-tile gap, but as you can see in the attached screenshot, the gaps doesn't look quite right with the neutral grey tone. It should be darker in my mind.

You could try to fake it by adding dark lines in the gaps in the diffuse texture. That will help to break up the texture and make it look like the tiles are separated by a small gap.

 

[gattispilot]

I am getting this error:
D3D9: ERROR: Large surface created Handle=0x15D2F818 (9889568,9889596)