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[[File:Low-spec Compositor pipeline.png|thumb|Screenshot showing OSG stats of the Compositor-based low-spec rendering pipeline.]] | [[File:Low-spec Compositor pipeline.png|thumb|Screenshot showing OSG stats of the Compositor-based low-spec rendering pipeline.]] | ||
=== ALS === | |||
The ALS pipeline tries to bring multipass rendering to the current ALS framework, effectively combining the best from ALS and Project Rembrandt. | |||
==== Cascaded shadow mapping ==== | |||
The main issue with shadow mapping in FlightGear is the complexity of the scene graph. Culling times can become huge if we don't carefully select which parts of the scene graph we want to render in the shadow maps. Some possible optimizations: | |||
* Study the minimum shadow map distance we can get without noticeable light leaking. Select an appropiate amount of cascades (more cascades = more passes over all geometry, and in general we want to keep the amount of forward passes to a minimum). We should have at least three cascades: the first just for cockpit/internal shadows, the second for the whole aircraft and the third for the rest of the scenery geometry. A fourth can be added if the transition between the second and the third is too harsh. | |||
* Improve the culling masks (simgear/scene/util/RenderConstants.hxx). The CASTSHADOW_BIT flag is present in almost every object in the scene graph. Turning this flag off for trees, random buildings and other geometry intensive objects improves framerates by a very considerable amount. Should the user be able to select which objects cast shadows? | |||
* Should the terrain cast shadows? The terrain is rarely steep enough to cast shadows. Apart from that, the terrain in FlightGear messes with automatic near/far computations for the shadow passes since the geometry is not tessellated enough. Also, the terrain LOD is not good enough to have decent cull times at far cascades. | |||
* Adding a "internal only" shadow flag for aircraft developers. This allows farther shadow cascades to cull complex objects that are only visible in the nearest cascades. (Very important optimization for aircrafts with complex cockpit geometry). | |||
==== Post-processing ==== | |||
Gamma correction, night vision and other ALS filters should happen in a quad pass. The current filter_combined() should be left for post-processing that requires as much precision as possible - e.g. dithering to prevent banding). HDR is not a planned feature for now so ALS will be using rgba8 buffers for most of its features. | |||
==== Real-time dynamic reflections ==== | |||
Rendering dynamically to a cubemap is possible. As with shadow mapping, minimizing the object count and number of forward passes is vital to get good performance in FlightGear. Rendering to six cubemap faces requires six forward passes, but we can render to a dual paraboloid map instead, reducing this number to two. | |||
== Canvas integration == | == Canvas integration == | ||