one question from my side:
is shade-c able to render lights on transparent surfaces?

I think so... but not with deferred rendering

Are there any particle materials? I've tried looking but I havent found any outside of the soft sprites, which I dont think can be used for particles.

I'm not sure if particles work together with shade-c at all.

But if the effect doesn't require too much particles, sprites should work.
They're a bit slower but you also have more possibilities with them (shaders, rotating, ...)

@MasterQ32: Transparent objects are only supported in the forward renderer at the moment. To use, set sc_screen_default.settings.forward.enabled = 1; . You then have to set sc_skill(ENTITY* ent, SC_OBJECT_PASS, SC_PASS_FORWARD); for every object which should be rendered in the forward renderer instead of the deferred renderer. You can then apply any material/shader you want to these objects (e.g. a translucent shader).
There will be basic support for deferred translucent objects in the future using a variation of a technique called "alpha stippling" and "inferred rendering".

@exile: You have to enable forward rendering for particles to work. To do so, set sc_screen_default.settings.forward.enabled = 1; . You can now use particles.

Is it possible to use environment mapping f.i. on the car shader?

It should be possible but I'm not sure how to do it, sorry
However, it looks like BoHHavoc plans to implement Screen Space Reflections:


(I think it's based on the technique Superku posted some time ago)

They can produce better results - because they actually reflect the scene, not just a cubemap - and they are faster and extremely efficient.

Any news about Shade-C?

Environment mapping is currently not implemented as i want to create a deferred method for this instead of a forward method.
It also isn't possible to derive from Shade-C's objectshader and implement it yourself, as the position is not passed to the pixelshader. I'll add this in a future release (or some way to change in/output of the vertexshader when deriving from Shade-C's objectshader).

I will implement screenspace reflections, as Kartoffel already mentioned. They are more easy to handle (for the user), but have limitations (for example only things which are on screen can be reflected).

The masterplan is to implement an automatic environment-/lightprobe system to get "realistic" results but this will take a while and has no high priority at the moment.


News on Shade-C: No news, except that Kartoffel sent over a nice Bloom/HDR mod which will be implemented next. Thanks again for that! Before that i have to fix some other things though which are need for CSiS. I hope to do that this week and then go on with fixing bugs and implementing new features.

Well I said environment mapping because it was the most simple method, I just wanted to ask for a shader which could look good for a car model, and screenspace reflections will give better results for sure