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Shaders, Dot3 Normalmapping, And Other Stuff... #32533 08/31/04 23:32 08/31/04 23:32
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 815 NY USA R Red Ocktober OP Developer
Red Ocktober OP Developer R Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 815 NY USA	i'm a lil confused about the abilities of 3DGS as far as... (1) Dot3 normal mapping applied to level geometry.. (2) Application of Shaders, can existing .fx files be used (ie the ones exported rendermonkey) to apply shader effects... has anyone done anything with the latest release along these lines? THANKS in advance --Mike

Re: Shaders, Dot3 Normalmapping, And Other Stuff... [Re: Red Ocktober] #32534 08/31/04 23:44 08/31/04 23:44
Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,543 Germany A Alexander Esslinger Senior Developer
Alexander Esslinger Senior Developer A Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,543 Germany	1) The current beta (not public) supports tangent space bumpmapping on level geometry. 2) A6 uses the DX effect files, not the one created by rendermonkey.

Re: Shaders, Dot3 Normalmapping, And Other Stuff... [Re: Alexander Esslinger] #32535 08/31/04 23:51 08/31/04 23:51
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 815 NY USA R Red Ocktober OP Developer
Red Ocktober OP Developer R Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 815 NY USA	Thanks AE for the quick reply... On the RenderMonkey thing... the latest release allows for exporting rFX files to DX9 .fx format... ... do you think those should be ok? --Mike

Re: Shaders, Dot3 Normalmapping, And Other Stuff... [Re: Red Ocktober] #32536 09/01/04 03:53 09/01/04 03:53
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth ello Senior Expert
ello Senior Expert Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth	in the near future you can use those with some tweaking

Re: Shaders, Dot3 Normalmapping, And Other Stuff... [Re: ello] #32537 09/01/04 04:08 09/01/04 04:08
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Red Ocktober OP Developer R Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 815 NY USA	thx E... --Mike

Re: Shaders, Dot3 Normalmapping, And Other Stuff... [Re: Alexander Esslinger] #32538 09/01/04 04:12 09/01/04 04:12
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,131 M Matt_Aufderheide Expert
Matt_Aufderheide Expert M Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,131	Quote: 1) The current beta (not public) supports tangent space bumpmapping on level geometry. 2) A6 uses the DX effect files, not the one created by rendermonkey. perhaps im being pig-headed, but what's the point of tangent space on level geometry if you can't pass real arbitrary light vectors to the vertex shader? As far as i can tell.. there is no way to tell a level block where a light is positioned.. making point lighting impossible.. you can still do directional lighting .. but is this really useful for most applications? Sphere Engine--the premier A6 graphics plugin.

Re: Shaders, Dot3 Normalmapping, And Other Stuff... [Re: Matt_Aufderheide] #32539 09/01/04 04:16 09/01/04 04:16
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth ello Senior Expert
ello Senior Expert Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth	what about passing the lightpositions thru skills? wouldnt this be good enough or is this to much calculation ? i am however waiting to get thing like vecSunDir for at least three dynamic lights (let it be the next three lights) but it should be one or the other way)

Re: Shaders, Dot3 Normalmapping, And Other Stuff... [Re: ello] #32540 09/01/04 06:24 09/01/04 06:24
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,131 M Matt_Aufderheide Expert
Matt_Aufderheide Expert M Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,131	wonit works fine with entities.. because they have skills of their own.. a level block doesnt have any skills does it? Sphere Engine--the premier A6 graphics plugin.

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