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Orbiter Screenshot Thread

misha.physics said:
By the way, what are shaders in Orbiter and how to use them?
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It's not a clean way it's just reshade, where it modify how the programs render API renders things.
In Orbiter I still try a way to find out how to not apply shaders to external MFD lol.
 
Shaders are small but very smart sub-programs that compute the way a material is rendered in real-time. Good shaders are extremely efficient in terms of eye-candy, watch the difference between say stock KSP (bleh) and the modded versions you see around nowadays (cool). Of course, as a shader is a small program, it eats some GPU and/or CPU cycles.
 
N_Molson said:
Shaders are small but very smart sub-programs that compute the way a material is rendered in real-time. Good shaders are extremely efficient in terms of eye-candy, watch the difference between say stock KSP (bleh) and the modded versions you see around nowadays (cool). Of course, as a shader is a small program, it eats some GPU and/or CPU cycles.
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Uh...
Shaders are more of a post processing. They do not care about material the only information is depth info and the frame itself. It has nothing to do with rendering materials in a different way.
 
xionx said:
What part of the article are you refering to? Shaders just change the way a material is rendered. How is my statement wrong?
EDIT : My bad OK, my phrasing was confusing, not originally what I wanted to say
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The key takeaway of the Wikipedia article is actually, that shaders are such an integral part of a "modern" rendering pipeline, that they actually decide which colour a pixel has, of course taking the material properties into account. So, that they only do post-processing is horribly wrong, they make the processing, even the pre-processing today. Including procedural geometry and other magic tricks. Without shaders, there would not be much to see on a modern GPU, the times that a GPU only does Gourand shaded textures are now buried for about 30 years.

I think I still have such an old VESA GPU somewhere in my junk box... Had some fun in my younger times doing magic in assembly language that didn't even work on another computer xD.
 
Thanks to all for explanations, and sorry for my off-topic.
 
🚀🇨🇳 Dong Feng 3 (a.k.a.: DF-3, NATO code name: CSS-3) intermediate range ballistic missile

DF-3

DF-3
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Mostly forgotten IRBM, heavily influenced by the Soviet R-12 and R-14. Its two-staged enlarge design, known as the DF-4, became the first Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile, which in turn, went down in history as the Chang Zheng 1 - China's first orbital launcher and the very first member of the famous Long March family.

https://flic.kr/p/2r5756Q


https://flic.kr/p/2r566ng


https://flic.kr/p/2r57nUp


+ Bonus - historical photo:

DF-3_21big.jpg
 
CurlSnout said:
Jean-Marie Le Cosperec's LK lunar lander (*.3ds model converted to *.msh) for hopping around/on the moon.
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Smoothing looks good, are you going to continue dev., tex. and animation, interior etc? Even if not a smoothed mesh saves some work :)
 
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