PNVS redux

Short update on this.

Dispensed with the headache and nausea inducing PNVS camera. Copying the physical arrangement virtually does not translate to a 2D video environment. And thanks to that man who emailed to sympathise while sitting on the pad, that made me feel less of a wimp.

I've got a much much faster and smarter solution working for the PNVS and I'm very happy with it. A few rough edges still (it needs more of a smooth edge) post-processing will add contrast enhancement and edge detection. Parts of the helo are visible through the floor of the cockpit, like the TADS barrel and forward avionic bays, these need to be removed using geometry masking when the PNVS system is active. Since the PNVS area always stays in the same place it's easier to accomplish.

What I need is a Portal hole. Again shaders to the rescue and I'll employ a texture channel to act as a discard mask when the PNVS is on, unless something simpler comes to mind.

Anti-col light half in and out of the PNVS frame.

devs quick test zone, lighting and transparency blending

Transparency and lighting is now blended to the PNVS buffer. Gunfire, explosions etc looking quite good at night in refreshing mint flavour vision (tm).

Some post-processing gives control over contrast and brightness while desaturating the image. Still to do, image enhancement and then the large task of adding heat maps to all necessary assets which when rendered in a single pass will be applied to the emissive output channel. And it hardly costs any frames, brilliant.

first heap map test