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C13 AEGIS 1.46
🕑 Added 2023-09-27 15:39:23 +0000 UTCSo, there are some backend movements happening.
The focus of Pure itself when it was conceptualized as a Sol successor, was a more accurate implementation of relative light power between the sun and artificial lighting. To this end a ridiculously powerful new AE method was developed by Peter Boese. This enabled a much extended sun and general daytime brightness, without Yebis AE mucking the entire thing up with it's wild swings. However ye olden AC rendering engine said, hol' up. With increased daytime brightness some issues of AC become borderline unmanageable. Chief among these are:
- light bleeding at geometry edges,
- geometry being lit from behind.
Exaggerated example:
This is an exceptionally critical on SRP, a track against which C13 AEGIS has always been optimized. Perhaps obvious given the naming.
But with 1.44 a local maximum was hit when daytime aesthetics could not be pushed any further. As such the decision was made to implement this as a toggle.
You can now enable "Power of the sun", which will significantly boost daytime celestial light source strength. In some instances, the AE will eat most of it, in others the difference is rather stark, but the important thing is the underlying relationship change. A boost to daytime brightness enables a stronger push on reflections, and also changes the look of glare, god-rays, and also has a minor effect on local presentation of saturation. Overall a not insignificant change. All of that said, it may need disabling for interior photo maps and tunnel heavy maps. I do wonder what the future of SRP will bring on this front.
But that's not all.
Drago tone mapping is here! I know, i know, i've been hyping up C13 Live, but i've been working on that, and i'm just not happy with how it's coming. But C13 Aegis is still alive it seems. Drago is not this massive change, but it is an alternative aesthetic that foregoes the filmic vibe in the name of optimum visibility, mostly noticeable at night, but you will also notice there are no milky blacks at daytime etc. For now i have maintained the C13 Color space transform even for Drago.
C13 Curve:
Drago:
Comments
Jacopo Di Giuli
Great... thanks a lot! ;)
ZC
the new CSP doesn't change anything so there will be no update addressing it specifically. But the next pure will bring a few more cool things, which will get updated for.
Jacopo Di Giuli
Wait for the new version, compatible with new CSP v0.1.80 Preview 442!
ZC
Thank you!
Herr Ronin
Fantastic work Ciba, keep it up!
ZC
Thank you
ZC
Yeah, I allow for a touch more blowout during low exposure scenarios which has the side effect of increasing mid brightness as well. I'm glad you like it. Of course the sun boost would take care of that either way :)
Will Graham
Looks amazing and fixes the brightness issue I was having with 1.44
Jacopo Di Giuli
Great work.. thanks for your effor!
