Hi,
After playing a bit with Irrlicht&Ogre I´m thinking about coming back to GS and doing a real game-project.
So I`m interested in programming a "better" normalmapping shader for GS.
Well, I didn´t have any problems with doing the shader fx stuff, but i want every objekt to be lighten by, lets say, 8 lights (or 4 or what ever), and heres the problem, every object shuold be only affected by the 8 nearest lights. Is there a posibility to get those nearest lights?? All Gs shader i´ve seen affected every objekt the same way. In other engins (Irrlicht) there is a render callback, that is called everytime a model is rendered, and in this callback its possible to set the shader params. Is there something equvalent in GS??

thx in advance TGM

yes, you can pass parameters to shaders every frame with material's event function.
and welcome back

thx... After thinking about it, I came over, that it may be the best idea to get the bearest Lights every frame and save it in a skill, and pass those skills to the shader...
Or have i overlooked something??
TGM

There is no need for special functions like this, A6 does this automatically. Just use the arrays vecLightPos[8] and vecLightColor[8]

In Sphere i do use my own lighitng managemnt, but that is for other reasons.

well.. stupid me... sry.. I know, rtfm...
but one question is still left:
are those "best lghts" calulated per entety/per poly/per vert??

Greetz TGM

I dont know how they work with the new light management system, but in the old system they were just the 8 active lights..

8 lights all in all?? damished thats to less... I thought it were 8 per lighten surface/poly/object.
well... thats a problem..
so I have to code my own light managment, if I want around 50 lights, but each objekt just lit by 8 or even less.... right???

With the new light managment you have 8 dyn. lights per model.
I don't know if the 6.5 release has the new light managment enabled.

well. that are good news... thx..
I gonna have a look if that is alredy in 6.5...

no.. unfortunably it isn´t integrated till jet...
Thx for the tips!!
greetz TGM