@sivan
the one 3run posted is .91

thanks!

the first trial is very promising, I'm satisfied with its quality and performance. thanks 3run again! I hope I'll get no significant fps drop in case of a lot of moving vertex animated entities...

a few questions:
- can I use only the shade-c terrain shader with its shadowmapping, or is there any other shader out there without the need of quad textures that works fine? if I will put it into my editor I want to keep some compatibility with earlier versions, and easy usage. and probably I will need more textures to be blended...
- can single skin terrain detail map be shown? it disappears after material effect setup.
- is there an example to use it together with a tree wind animation shader?

@3run: your settings produced a messy shadow map, I had to use the default sc_smSunSetup(screen_size.x, 2000, 1000, 0.002, 0); to get this result.

sivan@ yes, you are right, problem goes to the bluring value. use everything the same, but with low blurring value (0.001 f.e.).

another stupid question: does the v0.91 terrain shader natively support shadowmapping (type 0), or should I set something? (I see static lightmap is supported on blendmap alpha.)
I'm just in the very beginning of getting familiar with the terrain shader.


okay, sorry, I found it in the shader.

Any have got sc_materials_event() crash vhen using sc_entity creating functions? After many tests im pinpointed to sc_materials_event line:
pEffect->SetTexture("texNormalsAndDepth", screen.renderTargets.gBuffer[SC_GBUFFER_NORMALS_AND_DEPTH].d3dtex);

Its happening when turning on forward rendering flag(otherwise this event dont uses this case).

I really dont know what to do - no idea what this line do and how i could repair things. Is this line wrong or model which is set for this line?

I really hope any other could do some tests.

Anyone know how to fix "error: 88760b59"?

EDIT: I found out that if I had the folder "shadec" in a subdirectory it would give me that error; I had to put "shadec" in my project directory. I even tried defining all the subfolders but it still gave me that error.

EDIT2: I seem to be getting a lot of errors when I open a level in WED. For example:

Invalid name:
sc_lights_shadowmapLocal.fx

Invalid name:
sc_lights_shadowmapBlur.fx

...

Invalid name:
sc_pp_explosionRefractScreen.fx

Any idea how to get rid of these? It would seem the names are too long perhaps?

im receiving them myself. Could be nice if creator returns and helps us explain things. Overall i even send him message vith vish to help in development, but he still not respond.

I think in WED file names are usually max 15 character long, but not sure...

Houston, we have a problem!

I cannot get dynamic shadows on terrain when using the therrain shader.
should it work properly, and if yes, how? if I apply simply sc_obj_doShadow.fx it works fine, but of course only with one skin.

thanks.


EDIT: okay, I found the bug. just replace in terrain shader matMTl by matEffect3 everywhere.