In the new update I read that level textures can now be assigned materials. I am trying to create bump mapping for walls with normal textures. Is this possible right now and how do I go about it.

I would like to know how to apply a shader material to the entire level too...I've searched for this before and found out that we should set d3dautomaterial to 1 and use a shader with the same name as the material in WED..didnt understand it...I hope someone writes a small tutorial for this..

I don't think shaders on level geometry is fully supported by the engine yet. When it is fully supported all you have to do is set the var d3d_automaterial = 1; and rename your texture to the name of your material.

Shaders that work with the models skins will need to be modified for it to work.
In your shader.wdl or .fx there should be a place that says material bumpmap(or whatever you named your material). Open up wed and go to the textures. Change the name of your texture to bumpmap(or the name of your material).

I don't know how many times I've had to say this... but bumpmapping isn't a problem on level geometry

Load this as your shader effect, setting the name of the material to match your texture name, setting d3d_automaterial = on, and setting the skin1 of the material to be a bmap defined above for the normal map. It's as simple as that...

Code:

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matrix matWorldViewProj;

matrix matWorld;

 

texture mtlSkin1;

texture entSkin1;

texture entSkin2;

vector vecLight;

		 

technique dot3map

{

	pass p0

	{

		Texture[0] = <mtlSkin1>;//1te Skin im Model ist die Textur

		Texture[1] = <entSkin2>;//1te Skin im Model ist die Textur

		Texture[2] = <entSkin1>;//1te Skin im Model ist die Textur

		TextureFactor = 0xFFFFFFFF;

				

		COLOROP[0] = DotProduct3;

		COLORARG1[0] = Texture;

		COLORARG2[0] = TFactor;

		TexCoordIndex[0] = 1;



		COLOROP[1] = Modulate;

		COLORARG1[1] = Texture;

		COLORARG2[1] = Current;

		TexCoordIndex[1] = 0;



		magFilter[2]=Linear;

		minFilter[2]=Linear;

		mipFilter[2]=Linear;

		COLOROP[2] = AddSigned;

		COLORARG1[2] = Texture;

		COLORARG2[2] = Current;

		TexCoordIndex[2] = 1;

	}

}

 

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-Rhuarc

hey Rhu... got any shots...

also... how does the lights affect the shaded geometry areas?

seeing as i'm primarily gonna be using bumpmapping, and i couldn't get the dx9 shaders working real well, i went back to 6.22...

what other shaders you got for dx9?

THANKS


--Mike

bumpmapping isn't a problem on level geometry ?
Every time I have tried my geometry has looked the same as the others or turned completely black or white. And it isn't my graphics card either. My card supports the right versions of pixel shader and vertex shader. I have also tried it on my other comp. with an ATI card.
I dunno, maybe I just suck at shaders.

BTW how can I properly load this .fx file into gstudio?
And don't you have to define the normalmap in the shader?

Nice screen Rhuarc.
Does the lighting come from a lighting shader like in drews tutorial or wed lights?

ok... i'm convinced!!!

seriously, that looks nice...

yeah, i forgot you showed some shots of shaders on level geometry before...

6.31, right ?

also, yeah, what 'sandy asked above...

--Mike

WOOT!!!
I finally got this working for me.
AND IT REACTS TO WED LIGHTS, AND SUN!!!(sorry for yelling but i am excited.)lol
Stupid me, the reason it wasn't working for me is 'cause I put var d3d_automaterial =1; instead of just d3d_automaterial = 1; lol