First off, very cool. I agree that you should use very small maps. Maybe even set a detail level in the options or something.

Have you been able to generate the environment map from the center of the reflecting object with it being hidden yet? I was asking because I noticed in the screen that the sphere was reflecting itself.

Have you tryed setting this to refresh every second or so yet? If so, what kind of effect did it have on fps?

Good luck. This could possibly solve some of the problems of not having render-to-texture in the lower editions.

M3PHiSTO

maybe we could use this to get the scene glow/blur/bloom going too

you can do the glow thing with this dll: renderview

just copy this into your plugin folder, and then in script declare this function:
dllfunction render_backbuffer(entity);

then make a screen sized quad as a view entity and make a function where you call:
me=scree_quad;
render_backbuffer(me);

i recommend using a small skin texture for the quad. like 64*64..otherwise it gets slow. Then you also apply some postprocessing like blur..

Wow, i will try (hehe yeah right!) but a glow filter is second after normal mapping as far as competetive looka nd feel...and you already contributed such a great normal map code...

Are you saying you want a blur shader? i have one..i'll post it you want.. also Ello has posted a blur shader as well.

Drew is talking of the bloom shader I think... Yep, there he wrote it. The shader which makes bright areas in the view glowing. But I can need some blur shaders for my under water scenes. And I am still waiting for the parallax mapping shader... And of course for this reflaction master thingy

EX Citer

OKay guys im back.. eehh
Well I can share of course im not selfish )

Well the FPS is 137 FPs on my pc .. Cause it just use a normal env Map DX8

And to refresh you need to press t ( for now (test))... cause It needs to save to a bmp picture, as far as i know the screenshot its bmp, and then, it takes time to save to the disc, so we can't have a refrshment each frame..


Maybe your C++ plugin could be very useful don't know :S, shoud we give it a try..

Concerning to the sphere, im working on that , making it invisible when taking the shot ... ( sounds ugly).. ( but the fact of you seeing the shpere, is cause the model i used to that test has is axis not on the center, thats the only reason.. i made it like that, to be able to see the shpere reflection . ehe im not using templates, and even havent tryed to add a f7 (orbital cam) ehehh


The refectiong used to the cube , it based on the player pos... So it just works for the player for now. For multi object that would be Overload, cause it had to take a individual shot cubemap ... So i guess you are getting there..

Of course , this can be always used To simple reflections..

bloom is the same as blur basically..just render to the scene using my dll and then apply a blur shader

if you or someone could assemble this, would be amazing...I tried, I just dont have the chops
thanks