I had the Idea to create an easy to use collection of working Sylex 3.0 features.

To use them, you´ll need at least A6.30.1 Comm and Pixelshader 2.0 Support.
If you have any problems or you find any bugs, please post them here.

Have fun playing with them.

Sylex 3 Scripts

Slin


Edit:
The features are:
-Blur
-Bloom
-Monochrome
-Inverted Colors
-Raindrops moving down the screen
-Water
-Sky

Thats for sure a usefull contribution. Thank you for sharing. I'll have a look at the scripts right now.

Thanks for sharing this! We all remember the hazzle, when noone knew how to use the Xexes' contribution. Its nice to get an easy to use collection!

Can you tell something about your experiences with the framerates of these shaders?

I haven´t much experience about the framerate, because I never had any big project...
But it seems as if the post-processing is very fast. In my test I just did, the framerate drops of about 3-4 fps from 50 to 46.
The Sky should be faster than the 3dgs skysytem but it´s even less flexible.
The water is slow but I´m shure, that it could be much faster.

Thx for the shader!
By the way:
Does anyone know how to make "real" Water with Physics, reflection, HDR etc.
And not 1 unlimited waterterrain?
should be possible with pro, isnt it??

again Thx
Omega

Great contribution Slin, thanks.
Too bad sylex 3 max resolution is only 1024x768 i think..

Oh sorry I forgot to mention it in the readme, you have to call SLX3SwitchResolution(var_videomode);
before the video_switch();
var video_mode is the same.

I´ve just updated the scripts to work with the 22 shaders converted by BoH_Havoc, who kindly allowed me to add them to the package.

This Update allows you to use up to 9 Post-Processing Effects at the same time using Sylex 3.0 and A6 Comm.

It includes the following functions:

SLX3_Init(Titel);
-Initializes Sylex3 and registers the View called camera. Titel is the A6 window titel.

userdef_exit();
-Deinitializes Sylex3 and shuts down the A6 Engine.

SLX3_VideoSwitch(Mode,Depth,Window);
-For changing the videomode. Use it instead of video_switch() but on the same way

SLX3_4XDownsample();
-Makes an 4x Downsample of the scene. It speeds up the Postprocessing.

SLX3_2XDownsample();
-Makes an 2x Downsample of the scene. It speeds up the Postprocessing.

SLX3_Upsample();
-Brings the scene back to it´s original size.

SLX3_Bloom(HBLOOM,VBLOOM);
-Activates the Bloom Feature. HBLOOM is the horizontal Bloom strength and VBLOOM the vertical one

SLX3_Bloom_Strength(HBLOOM,VBLOOM);
-You can use this to change the bloom strenght if Bloom is already activated.

SLX3_Blur(HBLUR,VBLUR);
-Activates the Blur Feature. HBLUR is the horizontal Blur strength and VBLUR the vertical one

SLX3_Blur_Strength(HBLUR,VBLUR);
-You can use this to change the blur strenght if Blur is already activated.

SLX3_Monochrom();
-Makes the screen black and white

SLX3_InvertColor();
-Inverts the Colors

SLX3_SimpleBlur();
-A very simple Blur in both directions.

SLX3_OwnPPE(Speed,Seconds,Effect_File,BMAP_File)
-A custom Post-Processing effect. Time is the time period for wich it´s there. The effect is endless if you set time = -1. Speed is the speed of the effect movement. Set it to 0 if you don´t want it to
move.
BMAP_File is the file of bumpmap wich is sometimes needed for disorting.
Set BMAP_File = 0, if the effect don´t need it.
Effect_File, has to be a .fx file inluding the post-processing shader you´d like to use.
XeXes constributed a shader together with Sylex 3.0. The effect file is in the SLX3Content Folder
and it´s called rain_drops.fx. The effect even needs a Bumpmap. It is in the Sylex3 folder and it´s
called Raindrops.jpg. So if the effect should go for 10 seconds with a speed of 0.1 the function has
to look like this:
SLX3_OwnPPE(0.1,10,"SLX3Content/rain_drops.fx","Sylex3/Raindrops.jpg");

SLX3_PPE_Reset();
-Deactivates all Postprocessing.

SLX3_Sky()
-Action for the Sylex 3.0 Skyobject. You have to assign it to a dummy model in WED.

SLX3ObjectDelete(10);
-Deletes the Skyobject. You have to do this before loading a new Level.

SLX3_Water()
-Action for the Sylex 3.0 Waterobject. Assign it to a flat terrain in WED.


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Sorry for my bad English, I hope it´s understandable^^.
Have Fun!!