God rays in Cryengine 3?

tehrobster2

Hey guys, I currently working on a scene and was wondering if anyone knows how create god rays in cryengine 3. I have been reading some stuff on point light shafts, but I cant really find info on how to use them, if anyone could help that would be great thanks!

Paradan

not sure if this helps but..

on the time of day window about 2/3 the way down are the settings for sun rays and sun shafts. I think they only work when something is partially obscuring the sun in your line of sight as they are part of the bloom effect.


doh! found it...
http://freesdk.crydev.net/display/SDKDOC2/Geometric+Light+Beams

tehrobster2

Hey thanks! So do I just use , the shader on a geometry plane or something? I am try to achieve the way the god rays are affecting the fog in this picture . Anyways thanks for your help!

Ark

The option in the TOD settings is for the sun only. If you want to use them on a point light, which I believe they added in one of the patches, you may need to enable it in both the lights property and by a console command.

Both are post-process effects and are view-dependant so you'll need to be looking at the source for the effects to be visible unfortunately, unlike in Crysis where they had proper 3d-volumes.

Another way is just to use a plane with a fancy shader on it, but you loose the dynamic sharding of the rays.