There doesn't seem to be much of a problem, only that maybe the light is too bright. Try adjusting the material properties by customising NM.wdl in MED. I think most of the problem may be with the model and skins.

Yeah i did mean in WED. Presuming the problem you identified is that the wall is too bright, just try lowering the specular values for NM.wdl, or just make the light a bit less bright. As far as the model goes, i believe you can also adjust specularity with the alpha channel of the normal map.

Thank you erbismi! And you are correct as well...

BTW: For flat shading on surfaces, your faces must be unwelded at edges. Shaders interpolate the normals of vertices, which will give you strange lighting when the vertices meet at a corner (such as your building).

You should unweld the faces where there should not be a smooth lighting between faces. I hope I've explained this well...

the link isnt showing on the 1st page, is it still available? i would like to download it.

nevermind, i was downloading from the wrong link,oooppps!

The newest version is the link in my signature...

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Shaders on WED blocks are TOO slow. This is why many developers are now creating thier levels with models.

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I very curious about the situation with the so called "static meshes", converted from blocks. I could imagine that shaders on static meshes are faster than on blocks.
Can you give me some advise on how to apply this shader to static meshes? To fiddle around with d3d_automaterial seems probable, but I don´t have the knowledge for that.
I would like to play around with the latest GS beta.

This shader is brilliant, I´ve tested some of Franks textures, just awesome.
But now the entire environment needs to fit in.

Static meshes are latest A7 beta, right? I'm limited to A6.6 Pro, so I can't really test it to help you...

If I'm wrong, please let me know


Either way, email me (email on profile) and I'll see what I can do...

Alright, I finally spent ~10 minutes doing an update for the shader...

fixes:
- Accidentally commented out first light on last release, it's uncommented now
- Alpha transparency should work now...
- Albedo property of model controls its specularity (glossyness) in addition to the alpha channel of the normal map
- Ambient property of model works in addition to the material property.
- removed an extra texture lookup, which might make the shader run a (little) bit faster, but who knows?...

...Thats about it really. I didn't do too much. The first light being skipped was the biggest problem. It's still running in 2 passes, with 3 dyn lights, sunlight, and static lighting. I can add more dyn lights if needed. PS2.0 limits me to 2 dyn lights per pass though.


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