tinargJoin Date: 2010-06-18
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The new water generates one with a distortion shader added on to it, and it causes absolutely no lag. |
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Then you can make it something you can enable or disable, like Dynamic Lighting. And Dynamic Lighting causes vast lag for me even with the optimizations. |
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OKevinOJoin Date: 2010-05-05
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@InfinitelyHannah
If you were watching the recent ROBLOX live shows, they show that the new water effects that will come with the smooth terrain will have a reflection of anything above it, including moving objects. That being said, making mirrors with the same aspect as the new terrain water, i believe that reflections will absolutely create no lag whatsoever, and the fact that the water is moving itself while projecting a reflection while light alters the visibility of the reflections, i don't see why a solid block that is stationary would cause any lag of a ROBLOXian walking on front of it at all...
Therefor, my final conclusion to my opinion of this post is, and considering what i just said, i fully support this idea, because it is not impossible, and also the fact that ROBLOX teamed up with Microsoft and Mojang... I'm waiting for something like this to happen, because even i have posted an idea like this in the past, but the forumers were not so friendly and their only response was that it would cause way too much lag. Glad to see peoples eyes finally opened to what the possibilities are on ROBLOX instead of assuming every update someone suggests would cause a large amount of lag... |
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In general the entire lighting of ROBLOX places could use an update. The dynamic lighting is mediocre at best. If you have proper lighting, you can have proper reflection (mirrors).
Support. |
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TunicusJoin Date: 2013-02-16
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@OKevinO
I'm going to quote what a graphics engineer stated regarding the water reflections being used for part reflections.
(a user posted this) If you remember in the bloxcast last year there was new water for the terrain which had part reflections and refraction with the color and material, so if water can do that I imagine it wouldn't be that different for objects.
(graphics engineer posted this)
In fact, it's different. Horizontal water can use the existing framebuffer to render reflections and refractions, without introducing additional render targets or portals.
So yeah it isn't the same thing. So many people here want this to happen, and they make bold statements like "oh they can handle it", yet they have no background in graphics programming.
" This could possibly lead to this if they were to make their domain better and able to handle this."
You have no idea what a domain is.
"I'm happy to let you know that roblox has been working on this :)"
Citation please
"ROBLOX teamed up with Microsoft and Mojang"
No they didn't. They literally went to a press conference where companies spoke about their developer's creations, and user generated games in general. They are NOT partnering.
This is getting a bit ridiculous, the people who said it would lag WEREN'T bluffing. DOUBLE RENDERING would slow down the game immensely. I encourage you guys to post your suggestions, BUT don't make statements in which you have no basis for. |
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@Tuneable
"You have no idea what a domain is."
At the time I had several different things going on, didn't mean to say domain, but whatever. Most everyone knew what i meant anyway.
"'Roblox teamed up with Microsoft and Mojang' No they didn't....."
This was on Roblox's blog about a month ago or so. It's title was Roblox teams with Microsoft and mojang. After opening it and reading it more it clearly stated that they were working with them and that is why I then said that it could possibly be handled in the near future.
"..the people who said it would lag WEREN't bluffing..."
No one said they were wrong, we are saying that if Roblox were to work on their rendering, which is possible when they're working with companies that already know how to do it, then the idea would be possible.
"I encourage you guys to post you suggestions, [but] don't make statements in which you have no basis for."
This wouldn't be posted if there was no basis for the possibility of the idea. |
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I am currently making a working mirror, seeing as one has never been made. I will be faymouws!!!11!!1!!!!!!!1
I have found a way to make it not lag, it is very simple.
Sorry if my sentences are too long for you, I like them long. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
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MSHaroJoin Date: 2011-08-24
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sounds fun :]
-fuSIoNFALL plS *sobs violently* |
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nate979oJoin Date: 2011-03-14
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tinargJoin Date: 2010-06-18
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I'm pretty sure they have at least one graphic designer. There was that one hack week project made by that one guy that had bloom effects, dynamic shadows, shaded 3D particles, and so on. |
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tinargJoin Date: 2010-06-18
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Even still though, it would be nice to at least have dynamic reflections as an option for people who have high-end computers. |
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To be honest I just want it to happen so I can force the people who play my game into a First Person cam and then while their driving they have to use their mirrors to know what's going on behind them, etc. |
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nate979oJoin Date: 2011-03-14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYKrIOrU0RQ |
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## support i give you a diamond like and subscribe great idea |
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... it ##### you got ###### I think that roblox has something against your mirror HALF LIFE 3 ######### |
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actually, there is a game where there's an actual mirror (it's an obby of some sort i forgot the name) |
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Wow thx! just ###### to see real ########### #.#. i could make the default roblox ########### with the decals |
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This would be pretty cool, and I'd like to see Roblox with better graphics. It's just that this might lag for slower computers and make the performance of the game lower. I know that the reflections were in the livestreams without lagging, but that's probably because they have very high-quality computers. I think this would be better off in graphics at high settings, like 9 or 10. Besides, even at low settings, the graphics are pretty decent. |
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