Thanks, Job.

I was thinking about that while typing.  I also could see a use for saving some individual things almost like you would a prop, too.  Sort of a "My favorite fog" setting that's independent from all the other things contained in "Atmosphere."

Excellent point, though.  Thanks for the reminder.

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Hey I was mentioned!! KUPO!!!

(Kupo is a sound the creature in my avitar makes)

Anyhow, two things.

1. Screenspace light shafts have been around for some years now so there should be no reason it slows down the computer unless the computer's kind of old. Unity can do it, Unreal can do it, CryEngine can do it, everything can do it. You don't need DX11 to do it. It's a post proccessing shader effect. Just like the toon shader and the HDR shaders are.

HOWEVER

2. That is NOT true volumetric lighting which I've not seen in a realtime rendering engine yet. Yes it looks good, but as soon as you point the camera away from the lightsource or the lightsource is no longer in view of the camera, the rays go away. In most cases, this is no big deal, but in some you'll want the rays to be there. I think a combination of screen space light shafts and light shaft props would work really well together.

There are only two GPU powered engines I've seen full volumetric fog and lighting in and that's Cycles and Octane. (Please let Octane be a plugin for iClone as an offline renderer)... anyhow...

I have seen some VERY RECENT games ( I don't think they're even out yet) that can light particles and I have seen light shafts done in MachStudio Pro (anyone remember that lol)

But that's pretty new tech (and I think MachStudio was doing a screen space thing and if they werent, it was taxing on the graphics card)

So then for the moment, screen space light shfts would work just fine for the most part.

Ya know, I don't know why there aren't more post shader effects in iClone.

RL, why aren't there anymore. You know they'd be widely appreciated.

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Ok to the entire thing about bloat features and all that stuff... Firstly, what is iClone.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but iClone is a REALTIME ANIMATION and RENDERING program.

So, phyics, rigid and cloth... ANIMATING a character with IK would be great with that. Sun shafts and dynamic fog... RENDERING... that fits.

Now let's say they added something like... polygonal extrusion... uh... what? That's more of a modeling thing. Even if they added simple modeling features into iClone, that'd be odd because it's NOT a modeling program. Why do you think all the more complex rigging stuff is in 3DX and NOT iCLone. That's more of a rigging thing than an animating thing.

Now a duplication and cloning tool that's animatible would e good because it can be used to quickly set up a scene.

REALTIME ANIMATION and RENDERING.

Now I have to agree with SPD that an option to turn God Rays off would be good. Same for Motion Blur and stuff. I feel like all that stuff will either be in the Atmosphere or Effects section which you can easily turn the things in there on and off, so that will be granted already.

Also, to whoever said "We're getting DX11, so we'll automatically have God Rays." ... that really doesn't mean that.

We have DX9 now but there are a TON of things that DX9 can do that iCLone isn't doing, an example being *gasp* a light shafts post proccessing effect!

If we have true volumetric fog in iC6, I will upgrade instantaniously.

But we'll have to see. The next vdeo is going to be on dynamic textures... what's that mean? No flappin' clue, but we'll find out and I'm sure we'll be pleased.

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