Project D3D9 to Vulkan

[Gondos]

some MFD progress

This is looking promising. What are you using for text rendering? I'm prototyping for multi-language support, it would be nice if it supported non ASCII characters like the D3D9 backend :

 

[kash01]

This is looking promising. What are you using for text rendering? I'm prototyping for multi-language support, it would be nice if it supported non ASCII characters like the D3D9 backend :
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So for vulkan port currently supports the same ANSI 0-255 character set as D3D9's primary bitmap
font path (covers Western European languages). The WCHAR/Unicode fallback path that D3D9 has via ID3DXFont is not yet
ported - that would need something like FreeType or a similar library in future. definitley will add it. Current port strategy is just enough api changes to make sure it runs nativly in vulkan, obv later on things will be reworked and enhanced.

 

[kash01]

 

[kash01]

Huge Atmosphere improvements

 

[LinuxWannabe]

Absolutely beautiful. Can’t wait to try it out!

 

[xionx]

Huge Atmosphere improvements

that's so cool

 

[gamer19]

what's that giant red circle ???
it scares the sh*t hell outta me

 

[kash01]

what's that giant red circle ???
it scares the sh*t hell outta me

Haha celestial sphere seems to have some rendering issue, currently to lazy to debug it

 

[kash01]

Can anyone pinpoint why MFDs content is blurry/low res? I've been able to fix their overall rendering, geometry and font issues but have been stuck on this blurr and low res problem. Any guess is appreciated. Have tried various docs and fixes but no luck, i definitely missed something.

Edit: I fixed the font in the third pic though.

 

[kash01]

Preliminary atmophere is in

 

[Spaceman 3D]

Thes is looking AMAZING!!!
You've really been coocking over thest few days.
This should finally allow go get some better exhaust eefects into Orbiter. Annything planned in that reagrd?

 

[kash01]

Thes is looking AMAZING!!!
You've really been coocking over thest few days.
This should finally allow go get some better exhaust eefects into Orbiter. Annything planned in that reagrd?

Yaa definitely in future, hoping to unlock immense possbilities for orbiter. Exaust is in Vulkan now.

 

[DaveS]

Remember to make diffuse particle streams affected by shadows so that they aren't visible when they shouldn't be. I've attached a comparison, STS-108 which was a sunset launch (2219:28 UTC December 5 2001). Note how the lower half of the SRB smoke trail is in shadow while the upper half is lit by the sun. No such effect in the Orbiter screenshot where the entire smoke trail is lit.

 

[Gondos]

I'm not against nice visuals but we should first get something that can replace the D3D client before adding more features. The particle system is tied to the Orbiter API so adding better exhaust effects would probably require extending the API.

 

[kash01]

Launchpad and surface buildings

 

[kash01]

little little side project

 

[kash01]

At last something came out of my graphic designing course haha, heres something i had wanted since years, first version, it only loads and launches scenarios currently.

 

[kash01]

It's buggy mess right now but i do like the look of it, what do y'all think? its just
custom ImGui-rendered UI inside a Vulkan swapchain. The old HWND still exists as a borderless shell — all visual
content is drawn by ImGui. A little break from main vulkan port haha. Had this one in mind for so long.

 

[johnnymanly]

It's buggy mess right now but i do like the look of it, what do y'all think? its just
custom ImGui-rendered UI inside a Vulkan swapchain. The old HWND still exists as a borderless shell — all visual
content is drawn by ImGui. A little break from main vulkan port haha. Had this one in mind for so long.

Looks good !
Fancy...

 

[kash01]

Shadows are oofed