Smartshader competition - 9800 XT winning shader "Kuwahara"

***Zardon*** · Mar 10, 2004, 10:03 AM

Congratulations to Alexey Barkovoy you have just won the 9800 XT video card in our Smartshader competition! All the judges agreed your "Kuwahara" shader was the best of the bunch but it was a close call, The "sepia old movie" and "TV signal" shaders came close behind.

Id like to thank everyone who entered, we had quite a few entries and Roger and Maurice were very pleased with the standard of entries in this competition. Those who are interested in seeing the award winning shader and a selection of some shaders which were entered into this competition I have some up for download here.

Thanks to Terry Makedon for his original concept for this competition and thanks to Roger Descheneaux and Maurice Ribble for taking the time to help our members with questions on the forum. Please remember if you were unable to enter this competition or didnt have the time, we are still giving away a Visiontek 9600 video card so be sure to put your name in for that one.

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Please vote for your favourite shader in this comp - alex barkovoy won the smartshader 9800 XT competition so to be fair ive excluded him from this chance to win a cyberxgames tshirt kindly donated by Terry Makedon in ATI, so please download from here unzip and vote for the author of your favourite shader. you can post in here why you like the particular shader, we just need a vote for the author ! thanks to Maurice in ATI for gathering all the shaders together, with the new pssControl2 file for us.

pssEffectsDH.zip (includes new pssControl2 file for Cat 4.3) and discuss/vote here

my apologies to all those who had already voted, I had (accidentally) left out a few shaders, they are now all here so please revote

**MIG-31** · Mar 10, 2004, 10:42 AM

many congratulations to you.Alexey Barkovoy enjoy youre prize.

zerodamage · Mar 10, 2004, 10:56 AM

Great job. Congrats.

Dyre Straits · Mar 10, 2004, 11:16 AM

The "AlphaTransition" file is missing the extension for some reason. It shows up on the FTP as a RAR file, but the extension isn't present after downloading it. Anyone else get this?

*Maurice ATI* · Mar 10, 2004, 11:27 AM

Congratulations to all who entered. I was extremely impressed by a bunch of them. There are a lot in there that IMO are better than any that shipped with the pss tool so if you had any interest in seeing new effects I'd recommend trying these out.

For those wondering what "Kuwahara" means, the Kuwahara line shader basically makes everything look cartoony (also called cell shading). It works great in Serious Sam at 800x600.

Also as a word of warning, some effects might not work correctly on some systems because the time variable counts in different units on a per system bases. For example to get the stormy shader to work I had to multiply time by 1000 in the shader (Intel vs. Amd processors difference). This isn't a bug in stormy.pss, but rather a bad decision on how we implemented time in the shading language. Just so you know we didn't count this against a shader when judging them.

I'd like to hear which ones you guys liked best!

*CATALYST maker* · Mar 10, 2004, 11:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Maurice ATI

I'd like to hear which ones you guys liked best!

Good idea. Zardon can you set up a poll for users choice? I will send the users choice favorite a very limited edition CyberXGames t-shirt, that we passed out in Vegas. Top users vote getter at the end of April gets it.

Chaos · Mar 10, 2004, 02:37 PM

Congrats on the video card, I bet you have that warm fuzzy feeling now that your good work brought rewards

Danhill · Mar 10, 2004, 02:39 PM

Congratulations man

***Zardon*** · Mar 10, 2004, 02:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by CATALYST maker
Good idea. Zardon can you set up a poll for users choice? I will send the users choice favorite a very limited edition CyberXGames t-shirt, that we passed out in Vegas. Top users vote getter at the end of April gets it.

DONE get voting guys !

Dom · Mar 10, 2004, 02:53 PM

Congrats Alex.

shortstuff · Mar 10, 2004, 03:05 PM

Congrats Alex. Enjoy your card.

GutterPunk · Mar 10, 2004, 04:38 PM

very cool congrats dude.... enjoy the hardware

@/2ct!< · Mar 10, 2004, 05:24 PM

Now hopefully he can claim his prize lol, does he even know hes won yet?

toddsmack2k · Mar 10, 2004, 05:39 PM

Congrats Kuwahara!!!!

Spankmaster C · Mar 10, 2004, 05:54 PM

due to an absence of money, I don't have a radeon 8500 or higher...
is it possible to post some screenshots of the different effects?

thank you very much!

Logla · Mar 10, 2004, 06:03 PM

Congrats man, well deserved.

ET3D · Mar 10, 2004, 07:13 PM

Congratulations, Alexey. It really is a lovely shader.

BTW, I just noticed that the shader I sent on the 9th of March isn't available for download. Didn't you get it, or was I just mistaken when I thought that the competition was until the 10th? In any case, could you list it? It's the one I spent most time on, it's the only one I haven't also sent to Beyond3D (although I did send an older version of it) and I think it'd be a shame not to make it available even if it didn't enter the competition. (If it really was too late, and therefore you don't want to add it to the "vote for the shader" competition, just add it later).

Also, does the new driver fix anything with regard to smartshader effect? There were quite a few bugs in it in version 4.2 that were reported as part of the competitions (such as the memory leak and texture loading problems).

Eyal

mainman · Mar 10, 2004, 09:03 PM

Congrats big guy!!! Enjoy the awsome hardware!!!

**Roadee** · Mar 10, 2004, 10:28 PM

Sweet card.....enjoy it!!

Alexey Barkovoy · Mar 11, 2004, 03:56 AM

Thank you all guys for congratulations!
It's really great receiving such a regard!

Between, don't forget to vote for other authors - now it's yours time to choose!
I've really liked "sepia old movie" (ArsSepiaMovie.pss) by Arsil - it demonstates both artistic taste and good coding (including demostration how to workaround multiple texture bug

). Curently it's only voted twice, but deserves much more!

ET3D: one of mine other PSS scripts is not exposed for download too.

Maurice ATI: And what's happened to PSS compiler in Cat4.3? It's dissapeared for me...

ET3D · Mar 11, 2004, 06:49 AM

Alexey, now that you mentioned about a multiple texture workaround, I suddenly thought how stupid I was not realising how it could be done easily. So I added it to my slides shader (the one that isn't available for download), and put it online at http://www.et3d.com/misc/slides.zip.

*Maurice ATI* · Mar 11, 2004, 09:06 AM

Alexey Barkovoy - The problem is that this release puts the OpenGL registry keys in a different location. I have a build of pssControl that fixes the problem and hopefully it can be released soon.

***Zardon*** · Mar 11, 2004, 09:16 AM

guys not every entry is included for download in the link I posted, it was a selection of the entries, there were quite alot. if you all want to share your shaders, please feel free to share in here with links.

ET3D · Mar 11, 2004, 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zardon
guys not every entry is included for download in the link I posted, it was a selection of the entries, there were quite alot. if you all want to share your shaders, please feel free to share in here with links.

Zardon, I can understand this in the context of just showing contest results, but if you're asking people to judge which shaders they like best, and giving a prize for the winning shader, seems to me like you shouldn't be pre-judging for them. Not that I think that my last shader is really great and will bring me the win (personally I prefer the ones that affect gameplay), but who knows, maybe someone will like that one in particular.

zerodamage · Mar 11, 2004, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ET3D
Zardon, I can understand this in the context of just showing contest results, but if you're asking people to judge which shaders they like best, and giving a prize for the winning shader, seems to me like you shouldn't be pre-judging for them. Not that I think that my last shader is really great and will bring me the win (personally I prefer the ones that affect gameplay), but who knows, maybe someone will like that one in particular.

Please do as Zardon recommended and post your shader in this thread via a link. I would like to take a look at it.

***Zardon*** · Mar 11, 2004, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ET3D
Zardon, I can understand this in the context of just showing contest results, but if you're asking people to judge which shaders they like best, and giving a prize for the winning shader, seems to me like you shouldn't be pre-judging for them. Not that I think that my last shader is really great and will bring me the win (personally I prefer the ones that affect gameplay), but who knows, maybe someone will like that one in particular.

yes you are right, I humbly admit an error here, in my defence its been an exceptionally busy time for me lately and ive had the flu, so hopefully I get some sympathy (just not more hate mail

)

Anyway, thanks to Maurice he has gathered them all together in a zip and if everyone goes to the link I posted you can download this zip and try ALL the shaders that were entered. ill reset the poll and add the others names. there is also a new pssContro2.exe in the zip for the new cat, so everyone please redownload. thank you.

pssEffectsDH.zip is up, 1.46meg and revote here

ET3D · Mar 11, 2004, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by zerodamage
Please do as Zardon recommended and post your shader in this thread via a link. I would like to take a look at it.

Already did that above. But I'll post the link again: http://www.et3d.com/misc/slides.zip (although it probably will be fairer to judge the shader that is in the archive, since this one has the multiple texture fix that I added only today).

ET3D · Mar 11, 2004, 11:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zardon
yes you are right, I humbly admit an error here, in my defence its been an exceptionally busy time for me lately and ive had the flu, so hopefully I get some sympathy (just not more hate mail )

You definitely get my sympathy. Also my admiration on such a quick job judging and then fixing the archive. I'm very impressed. At Beyond3D competition results take a lot longer to appear. (Although they come up with good excuses, too.

)

*Maurice ATI* · Mar 11, 2004, 11:30 AM

The ones in the zip file Zardon just put up are the ones I got for judging. ET3D, I didn't get the slides one so that is why it's still not in that zip. I guess we just didn't get it soon enough.

The slides2.pss shader is pretty neat though. Certainly worth looking at for those interested in smartShader effects.

***Zardon*** · Mar 11, 2004, 11:43 AM

there were a few fell outside the closing time - If I kept taking them the competition would be running forever !. please of course feel free to post them in here to show everyone

Mar 10, 2004, 10:03 AM	#1
*Zardon* enchanted Join Date: May 2002 Location: Driverheaven Posts: 32,285 Rep Power: 3150	ATI comp - 9800 XT winning "Kuwahara" shader: VOTE for 2nd place Congratulations to Alexey Barkovoy you have just won the 9800 XT video card in our Smartshader competition! All the judges agreed your "Kuwahara" shader was the best of the bunch but it was a close call, The "sepia old movie" and "TV signal" shaders came close behind. Id like to thank everyone who entered, we had quite a few entries and Roger and Maurice were very pleased with the standard of entries in this competition. Those who are interested in seeing the award winning shader and a selection of some shaders which were entered into this competition I have some up for download here. Thanks to Terry Makedon for his original concept for this competition and thanks to Roger Descheneaux and Maurice Ribble for taking the time to help our members with questions on the forum. Please remember if you were unable to enter this competition or didnt have the time, we are still giving away a Visiontek 9600 video card so be sure to put your name in for that one. [size=16px]Vote for your favourite shader![/size] Please vote for your favourite shader in this comp - alex barkovoy won the smartshader 9800 XT competition so to be fair ive excluded him from this chance to win a cyberxgames tshirt kindly donated by Terry Makedon in ATI, so please download from here unzip and vote for the author of your favourite shader. you can post in here why you like the particular shader, we just need a vote for the author ! thanks to Maurice in ATI for gathering all the shaders together, with the new pssControl2 file for us. pssEffectsDH.zip (includes new pssControl2 file for Cat 4.3) and discuss/vote here my apologies to all those who had already voted, I had (accidentally) left out a few shaders, they are now all here so please revote

Mar 10, 2004, 10:42 AM	#2
MIG-31 DH News MOD Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 42,611 Rep Power: 186 System Specs	many congratulations to you.Alexey Barkovoy enjoy youre prize. __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here How you can help DriverHeaven by using Digg! Last edited by MIG-31; Mar 10, 2004 at 10:53 AM.

Mar 10, 2004, 02:37 PM	#7
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,181 Rep Power: 94 System Specs	Congrats on the video card, I bet you have that warm fuzzy feeling now that your good work brought rewards __________________

Mar 10, 2004, 02:39 PM	#8
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Mar 10, 2004, 03:05 PM	#11
shortstuff Sweetness Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 1,835 Rep Power: 0	Congrats Alex. Enjoy your card. __________________ [color=Indigo]Joe "Roadee" Dawson R.I.P my friend. You will be missed [/color] If we keep doing what we've always done, we'll keep getting what we've always got.

Mar 10, 2004, 10:56 AM	#3
zerodamage DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,574 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Great job. Congrats.

Mar 10, 2004, 11:27 AM	#5
Maurice ATI ATI Guru Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Marlboro, MA Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	Congratulations to all who entered. I was extremely impressed by a bunch of them. There are a lot in there that IMO are better than any that shipped with the pss tool so if you had any interest in seeing new effects I'd recommend trying these out. For those wondering what "Kuwahara" means, the Kuwahara line shader basically makes everything look cartoony (also called cell shading). It works great in Serious Sam at 800x600. Also as a word of warning, some effects might not work correctly on some systems because the time variable counts in different units on a per system bases. For example to get the stormy shader to work I had to multiply time by 1000 in the shader (Intel vs. Amd processors difference). This isn't a bug in stormy.pss, but rather a bad decision on how we implemented time in the shading language. Just so you know we didn't count this against a shader when judging them. I'd like to hear which ones you guys liked best!

Mar 10, 2004, 02:53 PM	#10
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,942 Rep Power: 0	Congrats Alex.

Mar 10, 2004, 04:38 PM	#12
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Mar 10, 2004, 05:24 PM	#13
@/2ct!< DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Not Vegas, anymore :( Posts: 1,384 Rep Power: 0	Now hopefully he can claim his prize lol, does he even know hes won yet? __________________

Mar 10, 2004, 05:39 PM	#14
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Mar 10, 2004, 05:54 PM	#15
Spankmaster C DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	due to an absence of money, I don't have a radeon 8500 or higher... is it possible to post some screenshots of the different effects? thank you very much!

Mar 10, 2004, 06:03 PM	#16
Logla DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,310 Rep Power: 48	Congrats man, well deserved.

Mar 10, 2004, 07:13 PM	#17
ET3D Hopeless Dreamer Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dreamland, near the pool of infinite graphics cards Posts: 2,527 Rep Power: 60 System Specs	Congratulations, Alexey. It really is a lovely shader. BTW, I just noticed that the shader I sent on the 9th of March isn't available for download. Didn't you get it, or was I just mistaken when I thought that the competition was until the 10th? In any case, could you list it? It's the one I spent most time on, it's the only one I haven't also sent to Beyond3D (although I did send an older version of it) and I think it'd be a shame not to make it available even if it didn't enter the competition. (If it really was too late, and therefore you don't want to add it to the "vote for the shader" competition, just add it later). Also, does the new driver fix anything with regard to smartshader effect? There were quite a few bugs in it in version 4.2 that were reported as part of the competitions (such as the memory leak and texture loading problems). Eyal Last edited by ET3D; Mar 10, 2004 at 07:39 PM.

Mar 10, 2004, 09:03 PM	#18
mainman Mr. Nobody Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: OmniPresent Nightwatcher Posts: 5,939 Rep Power: 53	Congrats big guy!!! Enjoy the awsome hardware!!! __________________

Mar 10, 2004, 10:28 PM	#19
Roadee Never forgotten Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Rest In peace, Joe. Posts: 2,202 Rep Power: 54	Sweet card.....enjoy it!! __________________ We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.

Mar 11, 2004, 03:56 AM	#20
Alexey Barkovoy DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Thank you all guys for congratulations! It's really great receiving such a regard! Between, don't forget to vote for other authors - now it's yours time to choose! I've really liked "sepia old movie" (ArsSepiaMovie.pss) by Arsil - it demonstates both artistic taste and good coding (including demostration how to workaround multiple texture bug ). Curently it's only voted twice, but deserves much more! ET3D: one of mine other PSS scripts is not exposed for download too. Maurice ATI: And what's happened to PSS compiler in Cat4.3? It's dissapeared for me...

Mar 11, 2004, 06:49 AM	#21
ET3D Hopeless Dreamer Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dreamland, near the pool of infinite graphics cards Posts: 2,527 Rep Power: 60 System Specs	Alexey, now that you mentioned about a multiple texture workaround, I suddenly thought how stupid I was not realising how it could be done easily. So I added it to my slides shader (the one that isn't available for download), and put it online at http://www.et3d.com/misc/slides.zip.

Mar 11, 2004, 09:06 AM	#22
Maurice ATI ATI Guru Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Marlboro, MA Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	Alexey Barkovoy - The problem is that this release puts the OpenGL registry keys in a different location. I have a build of pssControl that fixes the problem and hopefully it can be released soon.

Mar 11, 2004, 09:16 AM	#23
*Zardon* enchanted Join Date: May 2002 Location: Driverheaven Posts: 32,285 Rep Power: 3150	guys not every entry is included for download in the link I posted, it was a selection of the entries, there were quite alot. if you all want to share your shaders, please feel free to share in here with links.

Mar 11, 2004, 11:30 AM	#29
Maurice ATI ATI Guru Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Marlboro, MA Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	The ones in the zip file Zardon just put up are the ones I got for judging. ET3D, I didn't get the slides one so that is why it's still not in that zip. I guess we just didn't get it soon enough. The slides2.pss shader is pretty neat though. Certainly worth looking at for those interested in smartShader effects.

Mar 11, 2004, 11:43 AM	#30
*Zardon* enchanted Join Date: May 2002 Location: Driverheaven Posts: 32,285 Rep Power: 3150	there were a few fell outside the closing time - If I kept taking them the competition would be running forever !. please of course feel free to post them in here to show everyone