Hello all,

first post in years. I used to be on here many years ago as "danthaman015" or "deftoolsys07" and other names, back in the A5/A6 days. It has been about 5 years ago since I touched 3DGamestudio and as a result I feel like I am starting all over again, even though I used to know all of the ins-and-outs of 3DGS.

I just bought A8 and want to start getting back into game designing, and very soon I will have some nice contributions.

To my question:

I am trying to apply a normal mapping shader on my level geometry. I have followed all steps but there is no normal map on the surface when I run the level as far as I can see. Models work just fine with the normal map material, however level geometry doesn't...

I have two textures in my WAD file, let's say tile1.bmp and tile1_n.bmp and I have them in the same WAD file. I apply the tile1.bmp texture to the walls and assign the mtl_Bump material to them from the mtlFX.c file...

What am I doing wrong??

I have A8 Commercial 8.30

Thank you very much in advance!

Are the walls in range of a dynamic light (except the sun)?
You can press F11 twice to check the effect of normal maps on level geometry.

are you using external textures in a folder for your blocks or do you use a .wad file? If you are using a folder, then the normal map won't be detected and you'll need to use a .wad, at least from my experience

@Superku: When I do that, I can see the effects of the normal maps on the models, but the level geometry is just flat.

@painkiller: I'm using the textures in a Wad file... with the "_n" at the end of the normal map texture file name.. So in my WAD, let's say I have two textures in it, one is the regular texture, the other is the normal map. I applied the regular texture to the level geometry and set the mtl_Bump material on it. So it should apply the normal map automatically right?

Sounds like you're doing it right. I've found that mtl_bump isn't an obvious difference all the time from using no shader at all. Perhaps check the normal map?

Otherwise, mtl_specBump gives a nice reflection which may be the effect you're looking for.

I appreciate the responses...

mtl_specBump does the same thing. (Or nothing, really)

Same with all of the other shaders. I've tried a bunch of different ones but none have any effect on the geometry at all... Very weird...

Maybe you havent set the "shaded" flag on the blocks

Shaded is checked on all of the surfaces...

Does anyone have a small level with some shaders on the level geometry that I can check out? Like a sample? Or if not can anyone make one real quick for me, just a hollow cube with some normal mapping on the walls. That way I can see if it works for me and play with it from there.

Thanks

Could you share the images you are using? I might be able to take a look at it if I have time or perhaps someone else can look at it.