High quality mesh detail
Added 2015-05-23 12:07:28 +0000 UTCIn Yiffalicious, we're using something called DX11 tessellation. What this does is generating high quality meshes in realtime (in hardware) for basically zero performance cost. Of course, it requires you to have such hardware (GeForce 460+). The implications of this are manifold. For one, it will allow very high mesh quality (obviously), with nice, smooth silhouettes. But it also means authoring will become easier. Having very high poly models does make skinning (a process in preparing a model for a game) harder and more time consuming. By using DX11 tessellation, the models can be fairly low poly and can still be several orders of magnitude more detailed than high poly ones. What's more - if you have a low poly model and bring it into the game, it will look nice and smooth! Without any effort. We think this is an important step in providing a good environment for 3rd party assets. It makes it easier to author, it looks better and it increases performance [compared to having high poly mesh]. Also, it opens doors for meshes to grow (inflation) without causing hard edges.
Comments
Yeah, we noticed this after we uploaded the image. Decimating a model doesn't really give a good mesh, so the topology is badly optimized for tessellation in some places. The real models won't have this problem.
FurryVNE Team
2015-06-03 13:03:07 +0000 UTCLooks like the butt and legs got smoothed properly but the breasts and arms got subdivided without any smoothing. They have more polygons but the surfaces are still flat.
2015-06-03 12:22:28 +0000 UTCDefinitely planned.
FurryVNE Team
2015-05-24 22:14:12 +0000 UTCWill you have body size and proportion sliders to take advantage of this?
2015-05-24 21:40:46 +0000 UTCHere you go! <a href="http://www.yiffalicious.com/static/tessellation.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.yiffalicious.com/static/tessellation.jpg</a>
FurryVNE Team
2015-05-23 14:43:02 +0000 UTCNice! Can we get a higher res of this one too? It's not that I want to look at the butt, I just want to see the um polygonal things. It's definitely NOT the butt (can't wait to look at that butt)
Lemalas
2015-05-23 14:39:34 +0000 UTC
