crappy model, but you get the point...obviously looks right when its in motion...

oh! a zombie! shouldn't the black parts be transparent? maybe the pixelshader needs some additions to handle that correctly...

whoa...try turning on 'overlay' with this shader...sorta works... black 0,0,0 is alpha , plus the texture tends to go transparent in all the wrong places...
Thats ok, i dont need it for now, and I undertand this is a sort of hack until the bug is fixed...

transparency isn't affected by the model normals bug. have you seen my overlay thread? -> http://www.conitecserver.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=297998&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1 overlays work much better now with pixelshaders. no black borders anymore. the overlay shader could be combined with this one...

hmmmm.... i tried but didn't work due to my limited knowledge of shaders...

how do you actually ind a dynamic light?my nearest light function only seems to respond to statics..
Code:

---

function find_nearest_light()

{
	temp.pan =360;
	temp.tilt=360;
	temp.z=3000;
	you=scan_entity(my.x,temp);
	
if your.light==ON
	{
	
		temp.x = your.x;
		temp.y = your.y;
		temp.z = your.z;
		my.skill41=float(temp.x); 
		my.skill42=float(temp.y); 
		my.skill43=float(temp.z); 
		my.skill44=float(1); 
		
		return ;	
	}
}  

---

does this seem right? i am supposing that you cant find a dynamic light with scan_entity..but then how?

hmmmm.... i tried but didn't work due to my limited knowledge of shaders...

pass p0
{
Texture[0]=<texSkin1>;
Texture[1]=<texSkin2>;

ZWriteEnable=true; // add these three lines
AlphaTestEnable=true;
CullMode=none;
...

PixelShader=
asm
{
ps.1.3
def c0,1,1,1,1
def c1,0,0,0,0
tex t0 // sample colormap
tex t1 // sample normalmap
mov r0,t0
cnd r0.a,r0.a,c0,c1
dp3 r1,t1_bx2,v0_bx2 // normal . light
mul r0.rgb,t0,r1
};

the transparency gets controlled with the alpha channel of the colormap. all alpha values less then 0.5 will be completely transparent and all values above 0.5 will be completely opaque. you have to experiment a little with the alphachannel to get the hang of it, but it works much better than normal overlays!

@matt: your function seems to make sense. i don't have the time at the moment to test this myself though!

k.. one thing tho.. i dont think im calling it in the right place.. im trying to use this on actor_walk_fight action.. where do you think would be the best place to call it

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