Stylized volumetric rendering

animativespace · Mar 2020

I am trying to figure out how to do stylized raymarching that's close to to haven and breath of the wild? Does anyone have any ideas?

Eric Chadwick · Mar 2020

@Obscura has done a bit of this in Unreal I think.

Obscura · Mar 2020

Yeah. Most of my recent works are based around volumetrics or some form of them in real time.
https://polycount.com/discussion/157279/the-wonders-of-technical-art-unreal-engine/p3
Raymarching starts at page 3 I believe and goes til now.
Can you provide some example images? So we could determine what features you would need. Though, I would be surprised if breath of the wild had any ray marching in it. The real time solutions are mostly targeted towards high end hardware with very strong gpu which the switch doesn't have. I don't know Haven, but I checked out some screenshots and don't see any sign there either.

animativespace · Mar 2020

These are some examples as to what i am trying to do

Obscura · Mar 2020

You mean the trails or the clouds? Neither of them looks like ray marching.

animativespace · Mar 2020

The clouds. I am trying to figure out how they created the skybox

Obscura · Mar 2020

These are not ray marched clouds. They don't have true depth, or to be more precise, they don't have any depth. They also only have basic lighting. A cubemap (traditional lat long) image will work for this. You can create that in many ways. If you want dynamic shapes, use some layered noise with slight distortion in shader.

animativespace · Mar 2020

obscura your a life saver. Do you know any good tutorials on layered noise to create dynamic shapes, I already have the gradient shader created

Obscura · Mar 2020

Sample a noise texture 2-3 times, make the panning on different speed and have different scales. Then blend them using some blend mode.

Stylized volumetric rendering

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