yah.... I just looked at the shader and realized that it needed to be different. I must have been expirimenting then, or somehow got the wrong build available.

So..... make the changes to the code like this:
Getting rid of the stupid "point" values.

magFilter[3]=linear;
minFilter[3]=linear;
mipFilter[3]=linear;


Blending should happen better then. And anything you do with brushes or blurs or whatever in your photoeditor will be icing on the cake.

Sorry...
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You have absolutely nothing to be sorry for. ;.) The work that you and Ventilator have done has given the rest of us a beachead into the land of shaders.

Hmmmm...

Now must go find the difference between "Linear" and "Point".

Have you got any good pointers for where to start reading to pick up a little more info on this stuff?

The links that are at the Wiki in the Shader section are great places and I look at the DXSDK docs alot.
It mainly is just a matter of looking over the docs, the code samples, and then playing with things to see what happens. I've browsed a few books here and there and found that they seem to echo what is already at MSDN or the Shaderx sites. Hmmm... I seem to visit Flipcode, Gamedev, & Gamasutra sites alot.
And naturally, the great effects that the others here have posted are bits of gold.

Why effects program with try and error? Who scripting an Effect editor for fallback techniques?
Steempipe, your multitexturing code is very well. Unfortunately, I don't understand everything of this.
I already have some tutorials over terrain, modeling, particle and a different one written. Unfortunately, therefore I don't also have any time to study everything about effects. I'm glad there is you,ventilator and other shader experts.

The blending problem seems to be solvable in both ways, gaussian blur in photoshop (although it reduces some detail), and getting rid of the point values..

Does anyone has a shader which produces a layer of 3d-ish grass? Just curious...

(DAMM I still have to wait for 3dgs A6 com to arrive at my mailbox, yet I am patience itself, because of these great shaders on the forums hehehe)

hallo ventilator,

in diesem eintrag hast du von "invalid swizzling" gesprochen.

der neue code war:

mov r1.a, t1.b
lrp r0.rgb, r1.a, t2 ,t3
+mov r0.a, c0

das funktioniert bei mir gut, aber sobald ich t1.b durch t1.r oder t1.g ersetze, bekomme ich die gleiche oder eine ähnliche fehlermeldung wieder.

das genaue problem habe ich nicht verstanden.könntest du evtl nochmal erklären was das problem genau ist?

Hi,

I know that this is an old thread but I would like to learn more on shaders so could anyone kindly please provide files (level, skins and wdl associated/specific to the level) for my learning purposes?

Would look towards for reply on this.

Thank you for your time.

=ThermalHeat=

Don't want to sound rude or anything, but try searching more with the search option on this forum.. Especially look for Drew medina and ventilator, or matt auf der heide and ello's posts, or any other shaderking i forgot to mention, out there, you will find tons of information about shaders (and quite some code examples too)!! Also note that some of the codes are old DirectX 8 shaders, which will have to be slightly altered to work with DirectX 9 ---> Consult the Wikipage and also maybe google for information on shaders, that'll get you started!!


Cheers