R&D for the Raining Fire movie project rendered with cryengine :

Render with alpha channel for further compositing

Camera sync in-out with 3ds max or maya

Export passes (render elements) and z-depth

Area shadows (like raytraced shadows not soft shadows)

Blurry reflections

Dual stereo camera option

Depth of field with multiple solutions  including an accurate one that works even with glass

Raytrace quality motion blur (higher than any real-time engine at the time of this writing)

Adjustable vignette
Human characters solution
SSAO - higher quality (comparison and tests soon)

Voxel modeling and painting

Dynamic effects for plants and other objects
Anti-aliasing


Since all my cryengine research, tools and shaders are scattered around I decided to gather some of them here in this blog.
Threads about my movie on crymod and cgsociety.