Hi DARKLORD,

I don't know too much about ATI card shader versions (I have an nVidia GF6800GT), could you tell me what shader version your card supports?

Also, I have a test level using new template scripts and the shader converted to PS3.0. If you wish, I'll zip the folder up and give you a link for download. I could also try and convert the shader to your cards version.

Let me know.

Gary.

DArklord: make sure your blocks are all set to "flat"

Don't want to beat a dead horse, but I'll add my voice to the cries for pixelshader 1.4 support. Or at least get a consesus from the experts on this thread of:
1. Can it be done?
2. What would it look like?

My first born son to the whoever can get something close to these amazing effects working on 1.4 cards

Peter

Lol... but I'm too young to have kids

1. I've got a basic design done for a 1.4 version, but getting it to work has proven a royal pain in the bum . I'm afraid I might have to step back into ASM instead of HLSL .

2. It will actually looks pretty much just the same...unless you want to open two shots of it in photoshop and compare pixel-level differences by looking at the hex you won't notice any difference .

In any case... it's getting there . My latest progress is in ASM and it compiles without errors- but it renders the level in unlit blue...

-Rhuarc

PS: You gonna be in town this weekend?

I've got the models shader working great... but for the life of me, i can't get the level geomtry shader working... texture and lighting seem ok, but no bumpmapping...

(1) am i supposed to apply it to a map entity?

(2) if no, how do i associate the material with a block?

i am using textures from a folder not a wad...



thx... i feel so helpless when it comes to this shader stuff


--Mike

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i am using textures from a folder not a wad...

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You have to have the texture that you want to bumpmap in your .wad and the normal map in your folder. Change the name of the material to the name of your wad texture and add var d3d_automaterial = 1; at the top of your script.
Also be sure to apply the texture that you want to bumpmap to a level block.

thx hsb... did that about 2 hours ago... it seems as if i'm having a problem with fog...

i had to set the NoFog option on my model to get it to be seen... and it appears that the same holds true for the level block...

i set the level fog to 0 0 0 but it doesn't seem to help

i also made a map entity out of it, so that i could assign the material directly to it... that worked, but the scale of the texture was about 100th of the original size...


talk about frustration... anyway, thx again...


--Mike

When I assigned the "Flat" flag to all level geometry, I got the same, "tiny texture" scaling problem.

It seemed to be a vertex shader scaling problem so I found the following line in the vertex shader code section:

Out.Tex = texcoord0.xy*50;

This deals with texture scaling. So instead of texcoord0.xy*50, I messed around with smaller values like texcoord0.xy*3 and got results, but with tesselation problems. I just bought a Direct3D book and am furiously trying to learn HLSL and texture mapping theory...

Anyway, give this a whirl (I think messing with the HLSL code and viewing the results helps the learning experience!)

Gary.

sounds like a plan Gazz... the map entities seem to shader up ok, with just that one exception... thx... i'll look into it...

man... my head's startin' to hurt...


--Mike

LOL!