A little help with post process names?

odium

Something that I've been trying to do for an age now is get a certain post process effect in our engine, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it may be (naming wise).

As it stands our engine currently allows for several visual tweaks, none of which in any combination seem to allow me to create this effect. They are: rim lighting, subsurface scattering, bloom, screen space ambient occlusion, red/green/blue colour tinting, max colour level, min colour level, saturation and gamma.

While browsing the forums today I found a couple of pics that show off this effect, so I'll link them here:





Original Thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81143

In these shots, you can see that they are baked in a sort of coloured ambient light effect, but its not just ambient light, its different (Tried that).

Does anybody have any idea what these screens are doing, even if its just a name, so that I can get it into our engine?

Thanks in advance guys, I know this may seem a bit of an odd question.

THE 5

chromatic aberration?

odium

Nope, I had a feeling people would say that. Its not that (Which I will admit is sexy). Take a look at the overall colour "tone" of the images. Its almost like the use an overlay?

Bal

Those look like marmoset screenshots to me (the chromatic aberation, vignetting, and general colour correction looks like one of the default example settings), you should check it out to see if you can find what you're missing.
Maybe you mean some kind of cubemap based lighting?

THE 5

@odium
Ah well that was too obvious then
Maybe colour grading then? :S

Joshua Stubbles

Chromatic aberation is being used there. But for the color tones, that can be a bunch of stuff. RGB adjustments, tonemapping, lightmap adjustments, postdesat and a whole slew of other things. Are you wanting to make them look washed out and grey/brown like these do?

odium

Yeah, the washed out look is exactly what I'm looking at there.

EDIT: Did a quick search on colour grading and came to a UE3 article... I think this is what I'm looking for. Cheers lads.

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ColorGrading.html

Ark

This reminds of the post-process colour grading used in splinter cell conviction: