I haven't done anything in the last week as i'm moving into a new flat and have to do some other things (like getting the kitchen ready ... AND WAITING FOR MY PROVIDER TO ACTIVATE MY DSL LINE! ^^ (i'm at a friend atm) ).

Sry for keeping you guys waiting

[edit] i can upload a testlevel if it's still needed.

[edit2] Slin; I played around a bit with your updated sylex3 templates a few days ago. For some reason i get only like ~45fps when using the ppes. When using them with my own code, i get ~80frames I don't know why this is happening Is this also the case on your end or did i do something wrong?

I'm having a serious problem.

My game looks like this in normal/non-shader mode:


But as soon as I activate the shader on alt, it looks like this:


no matter what fx-file, it's all the same.
Did I do something wrong?

Which scripts are you using?
Looks like Downsample, but I don´t know...

The second view's parameters are not set correctly and thus makes your particle effects show up on a different location. If you post your script I could look into it, it has nothing to do with the fx files though,

(e.a. camera.clip_near should not be 0 or negative, that sometimes causes this too)

Cheers

well I tried the original Sylex 3 wdl file and now it's working.

Thanks anyway!

Slin posted a question about controlling the depth scaling to control how the DOF works in relation to the camera.

I have a similar quesiton about the bloom.fx, seems like my player character is blurred out a bit, I would really like the bloom effect to work, but at a further distance from my player/camera. Is there a way?

Tank u!

To illustrate the problem, here's a screenshot of my game running with the bloom shader going... notice how she's just kinda fuzzy:



Any ideas wot is going on?

The blur is usually part of the shader, but it's possible to tone it down, could you post the shader code inside the FX file? I might be able to help you out,

Cheers

Sure, thanks PheMox!

Code:

---

texture postTex1;

sampler postTex = sampler_state
{
   texture = (postTex1);
   MinFilter = linear;
   MagFilter = linear;
   MipFilter = linear;
   AddressU = Clamp;
   AddressV = Clamp;
};

float4 MyShader( float2 Tex : TEXCOORD0 ) : COLOR0 {
	float4 Color;
	Color = tex2D( postTex, Tex.xy);
	Color += tex2D( postTex, Tex.xy+0.001);
	Color += tex2D( postTex, Tex.xy+0.003);
	Color += tex2D( postTex, Tex.xy+0.005);
	Color = Color / 3.5;
	return Color;
}

technique PostProcess {
pass p1 {
	VertexShader = null;
	PixelShader = compile ps_2_0 MyShader();
	}
}

---

Color = tex2D( postTex, Tex.xy);
Color += tex2D( postTex, Tex.xy+0.001);
Color += tex2D( postTex, Tex.xy+0.003);
Color += tex2D( postTex, Tex.xy+0.005);
Color = Color / 3.5;

If I understand it right, this blurs the screen and makes everything a bit brighter. if you just want to have the hole screen brighter, it should be enough to have it like this:

Color = tex2D( postTex, Tex.xy)*1.2; //1.2 is the faktor for brightening

Slin

PS: I don´t think that this is a real bloom effekt... Why not use the Sylex Bloom?