MJ... open up the shader code and look for a line in the first pass vertex shader function that looks like this...

float LightRange = 0.00some value;

try changing it to float LightRange = 0.00001;

i think this line determines the light falloff... and it may be a set a lil
high, causing the light to drop off before it reaches your normalmapped object.

also, make sure that the no fog property is set... and that you have a light emiiter object...

i hope this is of some help... i'm not the expert on this... just passing on
some stuff i struggled with that might not be so obvious...

good luck

--Mike

I cant find that line in this bump map code, am I looking in the right code?

open the .fx file up in SED and look around line 74... in a section of code that looks like this...


Out.Tex=texcoord0.xy;
float3 PosWorld=mul(Pos,matWorld);
[u]float3 LightRange= 0.004;[/u]


simply do a text search for LightRange...

we are talking about the pix hsader 2.0 version of the ent bumpmapping code from the ultimate shader thread... aren't we...

--Mike

Oh I was looking at a different code, could you perhaps give me a link to the one your talking about please?

sure... Matt's code is in the first post of this thread
Ultimate Shader Thread

go there and use your browser's edit/find on this page menu option to find the third oocurance of LightRange.

that thread has about all you need to implement the dx9c shaders... and this is where you'll find the code for entity as well as level geometry bump mapping implementation...

good luck

--Mike

Thanks for all your help, I finally found it, didnt fix the dark problem though

Here is what I keep getting:





As you can see the lit areas look pretty good, so all that I need is to fix the dark.

Has anyone converted this line to DX9:

Code:

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VertexShaderConstant[18]={1f,1f,1f,1f};

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because i get a crash there:

Malfunction W1550: Error in effect:
mat_bumpmap(28): error X3000: syntax error: unexpected token 'f'

> VertexShaderConstant[18]={1f,1f,1f,1f}; <

Thanks for any help!

old_bill

With Dx9, the f suffix is only valid on floating point numbers (to my knowledge).

Try this:
VertexShaderConstant[18]={1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f};


-Rhuarc

Fixed that problem, now the next error appears:

Quote:

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Malfunction W1550: Error in effect:
mat_bumpmap(47): error X5326: Read of uninitialized components(*) in v0: *x/0 *y/1 *z/2 *w/3
(48): error X5326: Read of uninitialized components(*) in v0: *x/0 *y/1 *z/2 *w/3
(49): error X5326: Read of uninitialized components(*) in v3: *x/0 *y/1 *z/2 w/3
(50): error X5326: Read of uninitialized components(*) in v7: *x/0 *y/1 *z/2 *w/3
(51): error X5326: Read of uninitialized components(*) in v7: *x/0 *y/1 *z/2 *w/3
(52): error X5326: Read of uninitialized components(*) in v7: *x/0 *y/1 *z/

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Thanks
old_bill

From the manual:

Quote:

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Note that DX8 vertex shaders require a small modification for running
under DirectX 9. The following declaration:
decl
{
stream 0;
float v0[3]; //position
float v3[3]; //normal
float v7[3]; //uv 1
float v8[3]; //uv 2
}
has to be replaced by a DX9 declaration:
dcl_position v0
dcl_normal v3
dcl_texcoord0 v7
dcl_texcoord1 v8

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-Rhuarc