look at aum 95, there is the massive shader collection
a lot of examples
aum online

download

Here's a link to the texture files:

http://imageshack.us/g/689/tile1y.png/

And the shaders from AUM 95 don't seem to be working correctly when I run the test levels that come with them... the shader viewer from the main 3DGS download page for example, does work.

Edit: I got the shaders from the AUM 95 examples to work, but I'll need to see if they work in my own level now...

Anyone else have any ideas of what's going on here? Why it's not working for me?

All of the help is much appreciated.

Upload a small test scene and I will have a look at it.

Alright here it is:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/on4157

Should be everything in there, including the WAD file...

Thanks Superku. I see you're still around, I remember your name from years ago.

Oh and can you tell me how to get the grass to work properly? I thought you check the Overlay flag, is that not right? Or is it because the background is green rather than black? It's been way too long since I've worked with 3DGS lol

Well I need to have the wmp, not the wmb.
And what do you mean with grass, models that consist of flat planes with an alpha texture on it? If so, check out the "ImprovedOverlay" effect:
http://opserver.de/wiki/index.php?title=Shaders

Btw. welcome back!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/u28vm8

Theres the WMP.


And I've got a waving grass shader on one of the models, and it works as far as making the grass wave, but the green background is still there. You'll see when you open it up..

Thanks man!

The grass has a 24bit texture and thus no alpha channel. I suggest you export the texture and add an alpha channel in the paiting program of your choice (you can try to use d3d_autotransparency but this won't give you the best results).

The level is still missing your code file and the rest of the textures, so it's a little difficult to reconstruct your problem. I can see that you have checked the detail flag of the block on the ground, IMO you shouldn't use this flag it all. When I press F11 twice in the engine there is a small effect of bumpmapping visible, but it seems a little flawed. Additionally, the two default bumpmapping shaders only support a maximum of three dynamic lights (that includes the sun light) so you already have too many dynamic lights there.

I will try to set up an example for you tonight, but I have to say I don't really have much experience with normal maps as I only use them for a few special effects such as water, heat haze and the like.

Update: I've had a problem with my shader experiment too until I checked "Use Tesselation" in my build settings. The problem was that the light was in the center of the room/ floor cube. In the vertex shader of the block none of all 4 relevant vertices was even close to the dynamic light source (in contrast to the floor center), but the pixels in the middle of the cube only got the interpolated small light values from the corner vertices. Thus it helps to activate tesselation resp. decrease the value under "Tesselate shaded". (I was using block geometry, mtl_specBump and 2 dynamic lights, no sunlight (in map properties and sun_light = 0; in script)).