is there a way to adapt shaders for panels?

i need a nice glossy effect for some panels
with a dynamic reflection

use a view entity (ent_createlayer) as overlay for your panel and assign a shader to it

tnx, i will try that

I just don't want to spam forum with new same thread. Is there any way to handle this without view entities? I'm using shade-c, so view entities aren't visible..

@3run

You can create models / sprites in your level for the interface and use shaders...
but the difficult part is to get the right position and orientation for all that stuff

EDIT: the flag ZNEAR can be really helful, to make the interface not clipping through level blocks / entitys

Sorry, but I guess that I've explained my problem wrong.. What I need is, to be able to add shaders for panels in my game (such as HUD or menu stuff).

Well I maybe explained it wrong:

It might be not always worth it, but in the game I'm currently working on I am using Models and Sprites for the Interface (Buttons, Healthbar and this stuff)

I create them with ent_create(...); and then always set the position in front of the camera and change the angles so that it faces the camera.

It's much harder than 'just' using Panels... but sometimes it can look really great

I guess that isn't the way to go.. how do you handle for example digits?

well... for displaying strings or vars I use PANELs... everything else would be too much work


Youre right. Using this for the whole Inteface isn't worth all the work.
Because of that I only use it where It doesn't take too much time and work.


I'm sorry but thats the only way I know to create an interface with shaders and without using view-entitys.

That is sad, I hope there is a way to attach shaders to panels.