I haven't noticed any significant effect from applying the shaders yet, though I will be increasing the number of balls.

The frame rate isn't the greatest anyway -howering around 30fps on my desktop- but I think that has more to do with the physics calculations than anything else.

Anyway, hopefully I'll have a beta finished today. Then I'll put it up in Showcase One and you can all download it and see for yourselves.

Hi, I was wondering, as a complete noob, how to do shaders (I know they're C-Script - I think) - but can they be done is A6.22 Commercial, even with reflectivity (like the metal)??

I'd really like to know -as it could add that little extra to my game - If anyone feels happy to send me (or post) the metal shader mentioned here, so I can experiment with it, I'd be most greatful.

you can download it at http://www.earthcontrol.de/sammlung2/shaderexperiments042004/materials.zip

Thanks for the link - I'll have an experiment tonight - see if I can get them to work.

I'm still left with a slight question though - both commercial and pro. support shaders - but is there a cap on commercial like with physics for example - or are they both identical?

well - I downloaded that link. I run the exe and I see the model. I can change the model. I can rotate the model. But I don't see any shaders. I press CTRL+SHIFT+1......0 to change the shader -there's no change on my screen.

I guess this means my graphics card doesn't support shaders??? I have an NVidia GeForce 4 MMX 440, anyone else had the same prob or have this card and get the shaders to work?

goto www.earthcontrol.de/sammlung1/checkshaders.zip , run the prog and you will know it;)

thanks ello.

All I see is black text rotating, so I guess it doesn't support pixel shaders.

However, what do you mean by deforming meshes? I can see them rotating, and they seem to bend arround the horizontal axis slightly, but nothing really obvious.

nono, the first should explode and the others should dissapear and appera in some way, also they should all be colored, ergo... you need to get a new graphics card if you want to use shaders yourself or want to see up to date features in current games

thanks. As soon as I have some money I'm off to the shop to get myself a new graphics card.

I prefer NVidia cards to ATI, but does anyone have any suggestions as to graphics cards that are arround the £50 to £100 that support pixel and vertex shaders, allong with the mesh deforming??

*tear - my card didnt show the text "exploding"

I guess that means I cant use any shaders. ARG!

EDIT: Would the my DirectX version I have effect the shaders?