Thank you for your kind words friends.

@Jerome8911
Gamestudio by default can only send about 4 internal entity textures to be read by the shader. However Dx9 has the ability to read more than 4 textures/samplers. Superku let me know of a material event function that will allow you the ability to send more internal entity textures to the shader, as long as you keep the same names within the shader:

Code

#include <d3d9.h>  //include this at the beginning of your script to use the LPD3DXEFFECT function from the d3d graphics library

...

function mtl_event_terrain()  //----------------------- the terrains material event
{  

 	LPD3DXEFFECT _fx = mtl->d3deffect;   /// use this new function to grab the correct skin

	BMAP* doot5 = ent_getskin(me,5);     ///get the bmap pointer of the entity's 5th skin

	//------------------------------ent skin 5!

	if(doot5!=NULL)  //------------- If the entity's 5th skin is not NULL

	{

	_fx->SetTexture("entTex5",doot5->d3dtex);  // force the texture sampler to be the bmap of the entitys 5th skin!

	}

}




Now in your shader, as long as you use the same exact name, you can sample this 5th texture!

Code
texture entTex5;                              //---------------------- SKIN 5  --- 
sampler normal_1 = sampler_state 
{ 
Texture = <entTex5>; 
//Filter = POINT;
AddressU  = WRAP;
AddressV  = WRAP;

 MipFilter = Linear;  
	  MinFilter = Linear;  
	  MagFilter = Linear; 


};

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