It seems no matter how bright I make the sun in my level the model is still as dark... so do we really have to wait until we get the new dynamic lighting system????

This shader don't react with any lighting, also not with a new lighting system.

So then wouldn't that make it kind of... useless?? All I can see is like a quarter of the model.. barely.. raising it's ambience and making it bright didn't do anything to it...

This is my first try of any shader ( I don't know how shaders and materials work realy) but this one is effecting it with some sort of lightsource. I applied this shader to my planet earch model ( with a colored skin and a bumpmapped skin)

planet is lit by a dynamic light at level origin and planet rotates on its axis aprox once every minute. the lit up area on the model is also rotating around the model but at a slower rate then the model rotation speed ( imagine a flashlight orbiting the planet at a slower rate then 1 minute per orbit) thats the sort of effect I'm getting from this shader. any ideas what can be causing it?


earth model with bumpmap shader. lite up area not facing level origin


same model without shader effect on it at reversed angle from the above pic ( lit up area is facing dynamic light.)


bump mapped revese angle towards sun ( dynamic light) shows the lighted surface comaired to 1st pic shifts location.


BTW anyone know of a good effect to create a corona or flaring effect to the sun model?

Well for the sun I used a few transparent models that were slightly larger than the main sun model, and had them rotating at different speeds, which kind of made it look like it had a glow.

Notice the sun in the background here:

Hallo oliver!

Habe GS A6 Com, upgedatet auf 6.3
wenn ich die engine starte bekomme ich eine Fehlermeldung:

Malfunction W1550

Error in effect:
bumpmap(52): error X3000: syntax error: unexpected token 'f'

Die fehlermeldung kommt aber erst wenn die engine gestarten ist !!!

Zwar öffnet sich das Spiel aber ich bemerke an dem Model keinen BumpMap effect:

Please Help :-)

PS: eine frage zum Update auf 6.3 : wie kann ich es einstellen das das spiel im Vollbild modus starten? Das dürfte sich geändert haben?!?

Der Shader funktioniert nur mit A6.22, man muss in ein bischen umschreiben damit der mit A6.31 (DX9) läuft.

Hab jetzt auf 6.22 upgedatet.

Funzt jetzt nur is die engine so was von langsam nun (wenn das model im bild ist)

Am PC kanns nicht liegen, der is gut genug...

danthan... i think that you've gotta have a light emitting object with the following behavior in your scene, and set the light range so that it is greater than distance of the bumpmapped object...


var light_dist=80000;

action shader_light{
my.invisible=on;
my.passable=on;
while(1){
if vec_dist(my.x, camera.x)<light_dist{
my.light=on;
my.lightrange=60000;
my.red=255;
my.green=255;
my.blue=255;
}
else{
my.lightrange=0;
my.light=off;
my.cast=off;
}
wait(1);
}

just add this action to one a cube model, or any model you want to act as a light object... and place it in your scene near the object(s) you are using the bumpmapping shader on.

good luck
--Mike

This code is really good ,one thing however, everything I apply this code to is really dark, I have adjusted my.albedo and my.ambient and all of those, however, it doesnt seem to be affected, how can I brighten up the objects I apply this to?