Spite

March 29, 2019

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Omnidirectional Shadows - I wanted to implement dynamic omnidirectional shadow mapping because it looks really cool in the games that have it, and therefore I thought it would be a good addition to our engine.
Spotlight Shadows - I implemented spotlight shadowmapping so that our level designers could place them down to improve the look of our game.
PBR - I reworked our PBR to match substance painter’s PBR, as our old one would block light the more metallic a surface was, and considering we wanted quite a bit of metallic objects that was unreasonable.
Player - I wrote the player for this game, using a finite state machine to keep all the different ability states and such with well defined in’s and out’s.
Material System - I implemented a material system which allowed for anyone to set textures, shaders, and settings such as if they should cast shadows to any model, which allowed our artists more creative freedom.
Post Processing - I implemented a bunch of post processing effects for this game, such as vignette and improved our SSAO.
Camera - I wrote the camera, added a smooth lerp and camera shake that feels good using trauma and other techniques from this talk.
Fog - I improved upon my distance-based fog implementation, adding height-based fog and a bunch of values for our artists to tweak with.