anyone get this .. its cheap and looks to be just what we have been waiting for .. i may buy it tonight ..

any impressions?

I bought it. Very good documentation and tutorials. I would definately say it
is worth purchasing to anyone who asks.

I believe they are in the process of switching servers, so their site may be
down for a few days.

Yes, the website will be down for a bit - possibly up to 2 weeks. If you'd like to buy it drop me an email at surrealeric@gmail.com or rhuarc at dniezgocki@11threvenant.com. (Though since the server is down, I wouldn't be surprised if his email didn't work for the time being).

ok i got it .. and i am very impressed.. not just with the tool itself .. but how much i have learn from it ... Things i barely understood for the whole half a year i have been into texture effects i now fully understand ..

i would recomend it for its its usefullness and educational value ..

The website has been transferred. It is now available at:
http://www.smee2editor.com

-Rhuarc

what i always wanted to ask:
is it only for ps/vs 2.0 users (except for the FFP-shaders)?

if there´s any specular bump mapping shader that supports ps/vs 1.1, i gonna buy it.

The current version creates FFP shaders (no VS/PS). The tool is great and I created a lot of shaders and understood how they work.

You do not need a PS/VS 2 specular bump mapping shader. You can create a bump mapping shader with FFP and you can create a spec effect with a cubemap. The bumpmapping looks quite nice on models:



This is a shader that I created with the help of SMEE2. It uses a normal map like a PS/VS shader. You see the standard model without a shader left and the same model with shader right (both use the same lighting and material). You can see that some folds and a good self shadowing appears when you apply this good old ffp bump map shader. So I believe that FFP shaders can create beautiful arts and are a good fallback from 2.0 or 3.0 shaders.

To use this tool must i have the 6.31 ?

To use it, no. But the shaders generated are generally DX9 compatable. In most cases they should work with DX8 (6.22) but they might need some very slight syntax tweaking. Nothing big.

Frank, thanks for posting that pic.
Are there any more screens you guys would be willing to show or is there a small gallery showing the effects? They're very small on the smee website.