Hi,
I'm a starter at shader and I wonder what shader is best for me.
At first I would like to create a FPS with technical and sci-fi textures. So I need a shader that makes the metal look real. I downloaded several textures such as:

and

and

I already have the normalmaps. I made them with Gimp.
Now I'd like to make them look real.
I downloaded Matt_Aufderheide's Pixelshader 2.0 and I noticed that I can't use static lights when I use this shader and only dynamic lights. So do you all work with dynamic lights and don't use staic lights at all. (and by the way: how can let a model with a dynamic light follow a path??)

Can anyone help me to find the best fx-file for me and can you give me some short advices?

EDIT: This is an example of what I want (game is doom3)


Thanks a lot
Locutus

This is what it looks like in my test-level.
How do I get a better quality???
Please help!

a) use better normal maps
b) adjust the specular value

how do I get better normal maps?
this is the normal map I use here:

If you've Photoshop, you can use these tools here:
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photoshop_dds_plugins.html

Just a few settings and you can create better normal maps. The problem with your normal map that it has nearly no height.

Regards

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So do you all work with dynamic lights and don't use static lights at all. (and by the way: how can let a model with a dynamic light follow a path??)

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As Matt said, you have to use models instead of blocks.
You can only use dynamic light.
You can achieve a sort of static light, if you make it as HeelX has written in his tutorial.
You can move the light, when you apply it to an entity (which follows the path) with "my.cast = on;". (Didn't test it.)

Models??? Never thought of that!
So I design my level in WED load it in MED and save it as mdl?
Or do I have to design all the level parts, like floor and walls in MED, save as mdl and then put all MDLs in WED together?

By the way: my.cast=on;? doesn't that mean that this lightsource will cast shadows?

You'll have to retexture them when they the level is a model. The problem you are having is because errors with shaders and world blocks