While looking through the textures in Bloodrayne and Doom3, i noticed that another type skin texture is used for reflection maps. Darke colors less shiny and light colors more shiny....

Is this possible with Gamestudio? I've seen all the cool shaders on display , and though some look reflective, none are called that, though ive seen descriptions of 'gloss maps'.

Is there a shader available to apply to a model that allows for a skin map to have varying degrees of reflectivity?

Also what versions of Gamestudio etc are needed if possible?

THanks Bunches!

Jason

Yes, this:

http://www.conitecserver.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=422582&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1#422582

Yea thats one of the pages I saw, It's not quite what i'm looking for... i don't want the entire surface reflective... human models may have a 'flat' skin and may be wearing 'reflective' or shiny clothing.... make sure to read my post carefully cuz I think i wrote in there what i mean... but thanks for replying tho!

Jason

How is this essential to a game ?
GameStudio IS NOT the Doom 3 engine , or the bloodrayne engine . As for if it's possible , everything is possible one way or another , in case there isnt any sane way of going about it you could always make the 2 or more objects diff models and animate them then connect via script . Though for something as unimportant as this , a good character skin is the best way to go, as is done in MOST games. When you look at GameStudio , dont wonder if you can pull of Doom 3 with it , YOU CANT , think of it more like a Q3 equivalent with shaders , not bad at all for the price tag if you ask me. BTW , the reason i may sound blunt is the fact that a lot of the shaders (like the one in the link posted) will kill your fps and aren't alwayz the best way to go about things. Bump Mapping and Normals Mapping are supported though , and to me , thats about as good as it gets.

This can ceratinly be done in a shader. Just use the alp[ha channel of the color map to blend in the environent map.

The shader code on the WIKI supports targeted environment mapping by using alpha channels...

-Rhuarc

I enterily agree with you Evil_Level_Desiner :
the shaders are not the essence of a game :
if you are poor at modeling , texturing and level design :
Shaders won't help you !

Doom 3 without shaders would be a beautifull game also that not lot of people
could do with 3DS in terms of modeling skills ans texturing for levels
and models !

some shots to show you
very low models with great textures are beautifull when you are skilled :
http://spellforce.jowood.com/screenshot.php?lang=en&ss=24
http://spellforce.jowood.com/screenshot.php?lang=en&ss=45
http://spellforce.jowood.com/screenshot.php?lang=en&ss=32


But i also like shaders on my radeon 9800 XT !
(i hope to see a parallax bump shaders one day done with 3DGS)

Jeeeezzzz get off my back, no wonder people ask me questions in chat rather than here, dear god.


To clarify, the pictures that were shown in the thread showed a reflective globe, I didn't gather enough information from that picture to assertain that you could blend mapping to have different levels of reflectivity on the same surface. I only thought it made the whole surface reflective. That was my error, you answered my question though i didn't realize it. Sorry for that.


As for the obvious, that this is not the Doom3 engine, well that was just unecessary. There is no doubt that a bad model won't look good with a shader, i'm just wondering why a person would assume that i'm trying to compensate for a bad model?

and finally, if shaders have so little importance, maybe you should look at the name of the thred this is in.... that was just a silly thing to say.

They have normal mapping and dynamic lights in Doom3 too... do you go to peoples questions about those topics and give them the 3rd degree saying this isn't the Doom3 engine?

Kinda silly to go into a topic called SHADERS and tell people that they don't need them ! What's the point of that?

But what I really ant to know is who the heck are you to say what's 'essential' to someone elses project? DirectX 9, normal mapping, dynamic lights.. are any of these 'essential'?? It depends, but not on YOUR opinion unless it's YOUR project.

I wanted to know if something could be done. It's been asked, and answered. Thanks to the helpers, (even if I misunderstood at first)

Jason