nat.harrold Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Hi All, Thought I would post some screenshots of our current project. The project is to create a steamship simulator for use in a maritime museum. There are currently 6 missions to choose, in varying weather conditions, times of day and tide forces. Number of artists 2 Number of coders 2 Project Managers/Artists 1 code / gamelogic and 1 art. Timeframe: 6-8weeks. We are using Ungine's AppWall and Syncker to produce graphics for 7 large portrait screens in full HD. (These screenshots are from 1 screen only). The museum is building a full size replica wheelhouse of a steamship from 1910. Where the windows in the wheelhouse are will be the 7 portrait HD screens. There are 3 PC's running combinations or GPU's, 1x GPU for each screen. Input will come from a range of custom devices. such as full size replica steering wheel, gears, horn etc. Will post more in the coming weeks. 1 Link to comment
ivan.cuevas Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 ¡Very nice! Just two questions: - Apart of volumetric clouds, have you used a sky box or an ObjectSky at day time? - How big is the terrain area? I hope you will be able to show some videos in coming weeks. Link to comment
nat.harrold Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 Thanks Ulf, thanks to the team. It's not over yet. Many bugs to squash. Steve Brodie Me Danni Coy Andrey Viktorov Troy Pinkerton David Harris Thanks for the compliment Ivan, no volumetric clouds. just fog at night. - skydome + object sky / scattering (clouds disabled) + billboard clouds - mesh terrain. not unigine terrain. we are lucky that the missions are contained to the ocean and not too far up river. We chose to use a standard mesh object (cut into pieces) to control accuracy of terrain as this is the method our artists are most comfortable with for speed. It is based in a real world location, built from current survey and modifying the landform according to old maps to guess where the 1910 river bank was. However, we are looking with 100km farclip and obj distance in the day. Will get some video of all the screens in action (as soon as Danni has it running correctly) Link to comment
HarpSeal1 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Nice work guys! I really like the lighthouse shot at night. (This is Andy at Skyline Ink BTW) Link to comment
anthony.liot Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 NIce, look very beautiful.I hope the video ... :rolleyes: Link to comment
Guest shane.ploenges Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Really nice work guys, how did you do the wake and bow waves in the Third shot? Link to comment
steve.brodie Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Here are some more screenshots from the Sim, though its still a WIP. Shane, the bow wake is particles from an emitter attached to the hull Link to comment
manguste Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Niiiiiice sim. I bet it would look great when this full size replica is ready. Looking forward to videos! Link to comment
pascal.winistoerfer Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 looks awesome! :D Link to comment
nat.harrold Posted February 18, 2013 Author Share Posted February 18, 2013 Small update. Higher level overview from one of the showcase camera paths. Appwall and synker, not the final screens or computers, just a debug version running in our studio, we ran out of screens... (our artists are not happy now.. as they only have one each.) ;) Link to comment
nat.harrold Posted February 18, 2013 Author Share Posted February 18, 2013 Initial test of a half hour crack at an automatic mega screenshot button... 8400x1920... Needs some tweaks.. but will be super handy.. Now if only we could play back video at that res... Will post high res images later in the week from the player camera angles. Apologies for the crappy phone photo in the previous post, will update that soon. Was just happy to see all the systems we built finally playing nicely together. (Will update with full res soon. Posting from my phone.) Link to comment
fonta.romain Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Please post a small video of the running simulation =) Very impressive ! Link to comment
anthony.liot Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Not other word ... Very impressive !!! +1 for small video Link to comment
binstream Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 It seems that wind particles aren't oriented correctly in the last screenshot - there are visible differences between monitors. Link to comment
nat.harrold Posted February 18, 2013 Author Share Posted February 18, 2013 Correct binstream, we are yet to tweak the appwall based screenshot tool. Player bound particles are not showing up in the side projections of the tool yet. The wide shot above was for proof of concept. - this tool will work to generate large res, corrected panoramas from low end computers with single screens. You guys could use something like that to take a massive panorama of valley.. Link to comment
Guest shane.ploenges Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Looking fantastic Nat. What sort of framerates are you getting with this? Link to comment
nat.harrold Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 Hi Shane, We are almost through optimising the art at the moment and are at a smooth 25+ fps on the heaviest night mission with all code running. We are yet to optimise the night lights (+ couple of fps here). The NPC code is also on the list to be tuned up and if we can make a gain on this (which is quite costly on update - due to the amount of calls for the buoyancy hacks), I am expecting to gain 5-8 fps from optimising the update code overheads; (which we would use extra frames for either AA, more draw distance on clusters or more physics). Currently we are not testing now on the final pc's as they have been shipped for installation (and they have much better gpu's than we do). Though we are gaining frames each day now that all the content is in and are optimising. 1 Link to comment
nat.harrold Posted June 3, 2013 Author Share Posted June 3, 2013 Well that took a while... Link to comment
ulf.schroeter Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Very nice ! Must be great to see it in motion Link to comment
nat.harrold Posted June 4, 2013 Author Share Posted June 4, 2013 Thanks for the compliments. Yes, Ulf, it can make you nauseous with the constant motion of the swell, even though there is no motion in the floor. I had made some tweaks to the settings before I took the screenshots, such as draw distance, which helps sell the overall appeal for a static screen grab. If I was asked to do it all again for the same price, I would say definitely not, we now have a much greater appreciation for what is involved in making something run 99.5% of the time without a crash. The hardware interfaces with software and hardware network arrangements were quite difficult to get working together all of the time. Even after much debug, there is a crash at least once a week from something on the network not responding. Steve and Danni had lots of hair at the beginning of the project, I have on several occasions had to clean up large piles of it around the bottom of their chairs... The art looks great, the ships are great for the time that was budgeted. Big thanks to Dave Harris, the lead artist on the watercraft, Troy Pinkerton for the reconstruction of the terrain (both of who do not seem to use the forum much), to Andrey and Danni Coy coding, and Steve Brodie for making the thing go. Thanks to the Unigine crew for any assistance during a rushed project. There were other consultants on the project that did great work also; the design and fitout, and provision of the customised historical hardware. Some photos attached of the simulator: I should go and make a video... Link to comment
Guest shane.ploenges Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 For those that don't know, the red headed lady in the picture is our Australian Prime Minister.. that's some great exposure guys! Link to comment
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