it's not using the 'ambient values' of the level...
Can this be added? (wish I knew how)

i think conitec should provide a simple example for a shader which does exactly the same lighting as the default mat_model does. with ambient, albedo and all that things considered... i couldn't reproduce the mat_model lighting behavior yet. with an example it would be quite easy to combine that lighting with shaders like this bump mapping one...

Use

COLOROP[1] = modulate2x;

instead.

The default model ColorOp is modulate2x. The material color values can just be copied from mat_model like in the effects.wdl example.

can somebody add that to the code (for us shader noobs)?

actually i didn't really investigate this bump mapping example. i knew that if you set the directx states it's possible to achieve the same lighting as with mat_model...

but i haven't been able to achieve the same lighting with a pure vertex and pixelshader combination (using veclight and so on). i don't know how to combine the influence of the shadowmap and other lightsources in the right way. a simple example for this would be nice!

...
@drew:

COLOROP[0] = dotproduct3;
COLORARG1[0] = texture;
COLORARG2[0] = diffuse;

COLOROP[1] = modulate2x; // here
COLORARG1[1] = texture;
COLORARG2[1] = current;

ok, thanks... What that (modulate2x) did was to just bring the brightest levels up, the ambient is still black.

i think the vertex shader would have to do the same lighting calculation (with the shadowmap, albedo and everything taken into account) as the engine does for models without any shader and then pass the result to a third stage which applies the lighting. but i don't know how the engine calculates the lighting and so a simple vertex shader example by conitec would be nice!

Yes, ventilator is right.

This is the default render setting used by the engine:

Models, sprites, and flat textures:

SetTexture(0,Skin);
SetTextureStageState(0,D3DTSS_COLOROP,D3DTOP_MODULATE2X);
SetTextureStageState(0,D3DTSS_COLORARG1,D3DTA_TEXTURE); // entity texture
SetTextureStageState(0,D3DTSS_COLORARG2,D3DTA_DIFFUSE); // lighting


Shaded textures:

Stage 0 adds dynamic lights to the lightmap:

SetTexture(0,LightMap);
SetTextureStageState(0,D3DTSS_COLOROP,D3DTOP_ADD);
SetTextureStageState(0,D3DTSS_COLORARG1,D3DTA_TEXTURE); // lightmap
SetTextureStageState(0,D3DTSS_COLORARG2,D3DTA_DIFFUSE); // lighting

Stage 1 modulates the actual texture with the result of stage 0:

SetTexture(1,Texture);
SetTextureStageState(1,D3DTSS_COLOROP,D3DTOP_MODULATE2X);
SetTextureStageState(1,D3DTSS_COLORARG1,D3DTA_TEXTURE); // texture
SetTextureStageState(0,D3DTSS_COLORARG2,D3DTA_CURRENT); // stage 0


The shader must emulate this setting.

Excuse me about this, but isn't there bump mapping with the engine, without the need for shaders?

Sorry, but I don't know anything about shaders or anything, so maybe someone could help me on this one.

good question... Hmmmmmm.. No
Need shaders:)