wow, nice Theoratical you could make a 15 light shader with 3 passes xD

OK kool will try this code tonight

Alright...

A ran into another wall. The limit on the number of commands you can run in a shader. It's currently down to 3 lights per pass, but it runs good.


I'm gonna mess with it a lil more, then post whatever I get tomorrow morning.

sounds good

Alright, it's getting there. I just need to add specular lighting to the sun, and some other little things.

Here's a (crappy) youtube preview of the shader applied to PSionics spider thing. Sorry for the quality, YouTube butchered it...


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Looks great! Would it also be possible for the user to be able to change the diffuse and ambient for the model with normalmapping? Is this possible to do in the material and not in the fx(but the .fx recognizes it)? That way if it's too dark or light you can change it. Thanks.

Good idea, I'll add that in...

I will add the:
- Ambient: for adjusting brightness...
- Diffuse: for adjusting how much color is used (IE: 0 = grayscale)
- Static Lighting*


*I'll upload my current progress before I implement this, as I'm not sure how exacttly I'll do this. The only problem is that it only passes the colors, not direction. Therefor, when using static lighting, I'll either have to use it as an "ambience" sort of thing; Or I can make up a direction for it.

couldn't you just pass it with the skills which are predefined for shader passing?

Na, it would be easier to just use the pre-defined vector (vecAmbient, vecDiffuse, vecLight)...


Currently, my static light idea is using the suns position as the source direction for the light. I've already added Ambient & diffuse vectors.


It looks really good, and runs quite quickly with sun & 2 dynamic light sources (+ additionals such as static & ambience, etc). So I'm really happy with it. I think I'll rewrite it so that the first pass calculates sun + static + ambience, and the second just does dynamic lighting.

I'm having a problem with vecLight...

It doesn't seem to work properly. It's vey "jumpy" and sometimes returns strange values. It only works correctly a short portion of the time.