noob question on materials

does anyone know where i can fing a good tutorial on shaders and material effects? I know absolutely nothing about them, so this would be a lot of help.

The manual might help a tad. Another place you could try is the wiki at the very bottom of the page. - Just some ideas.

you want to know how to write shaders? or simply how to use existing shaders in A6?

I recommend reading some books on shaders, like shaderX 2 and the like, or if you're broke like I am at the moment, just search on google for shaders.. Off course this is only for general info on shaders, for using it in A6 it's best to try some of the wiki shaders, download the Surreal shader editor from Nadester and search the forums... Just to show some of the things I've done to find some info on shaders..

Cheeers

Check out 3PM. In the May issue there is an article on creating your first basic shader. In the June issue there is an begginers article on creating your first material.

May Issue - 3PM May

June Issue - 3PM June

It's really to bad I can't pay for those magazines, in the time there were still free parts of it, it was a valuable source of information....
(I don't have a creditcard or the like... and a international cheque costs more then you guys ask for the magazine itself hehehe lol)

okay, i have the surreal editor, and i have made the materiual effect that i want. I exported the script, and can read it too. How do i now attach the material to an object? I tried to make an action, and played around with the things that the manual said, until i had no syntax errors. When i run my level however, the model still looks the same.

P.S. I want to make a material effect for a ceiling light, that gives off a white light.

I'm new on shaders as well and am at the stage you are.

I used surreal shader as well to generate code:

material mat_MetalSSE{
emissive_red = 0;
emissive_green = 0;
emissive_blue = 0;

ambient_red = 201.875;
ambient_green = 201.875;
ambient_blue = 201.875;

diffuse_red = 0;
diffuse_green = 0;
diffuse_blue = 0;

specular_red = 255;
specular_green = 255;
specular_blue = 255;

alpha = 100;
albedo = 100;
power = 4.662;
}

Then I just put in the player's action: my.material = mat_MetalSSE. I can change those values and it affects the player. But in surreal editor the model has a metal effect, my model just seems to have the shader effect. (like how your model hasn't changed at all) Anyone know how to change it.

Thanks.

thats what im talking about. I give it the material effect, but it doesent do anything. Could it be my graphics card?

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I got it figured out panther. If an entity has the metal flag set, the metal effect will not appear until the entity is within range of a dynamic light. The entity will not be affected by the lights pre calculated in the build process.

Hope it helps!!

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I'm new on shaders as well and am at the stage you are.

I used surreal shader as well to generate code...

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In any case those aren't shaders but simple A6 material effects. Shaders use use vertex and pixel programs to calculates effects.