Hey guys...I've uploaded a small 6MB video of the motion blur effect I'm working on. The video compression pretty much ruins the effect though :-/ short of uploading a 100MB uncompressed frame dump...I'll keep looking for a better video compression algorithm (this one uses MPEG4-V2). It's funny, that encoding the motion blur video using MPEG4-V1 seemed to play all kinds of tricks with the compression...its like the codec is detecting the similarities created by the motion blur, and canceling out that whole area to save data.

Anyways here's the download link to the aptly named video file:

[EDIT: Framerate is kinda fast in this video...[/EDIT]
Download Gang_War_Motion_Blur_Work_In_Progress.avi

I realize it's probably futile to post screenshots of this effect, but here's one anyways ;-) Also notice the window reflections which can be adjusted per-texel with reflection maps. These screenshots are grabbed from the video above.

Camera is moving backwards in this one, try to imagine it lol


Rest assured it looks very cool in the game, I'm still working on removing a few artifacts though...as well as add support for motion blur on moving skinned meshes (should be done tonight, just gotta write a couple of new shaders)...but overall I'm happy with it.

Back to work. I'll try to get some better screenshots of the effect.

- Dan

Edit - OK last edit for the night lol

I thought this screenshot was cool and should show you guys all the samples this blur shader is taking, it has a lot of potential...I'm already loving it in-game, I need to clamp it, and get it to work on moving models and it'll be great...doing this at 1280x1024 does kinda slaughter the framerate though lol. It's still playable [grin].

Obviously the blur isn't this intense at all times, it works on a per-pixel basis, using velocity buffers, which track the movement of each pixel between frames.