Hi there.. hum what i use for this? this is a object glow shader. this is just the render target struct, what i use for this? a entity? or what?
texture GlowMap1 : RENDERCOLORTARGET;

sampler GlowSamp1 = sampler_state
{
texture = <GlowMap1>;
AddressU = CLAMP;
AddressV = CLAMP;
AddressW = CLAMP;
MIPFILTER = NONE;
MINFILTER = LINEAR;
MAGFILTER = LINEAR;
};

texture GlowMap2 : RENDERCOLORTARGET ;

this is not an object glow shader but two textures and one sampler written in hlsl. i think it's from fxcomposer?

you can't assign this to anything...

no.. its for 3d studio max shader.

The model skin diffuse and such is working, but the real glow effect, is a render to target.. Does Gs have such?
i mean calling texture glow:rendercolortarget will create a target buffer?

how do i aaply the material to the object and at the same time do the post processing target :S
.. Gs shader could work like other programs do.. like fx composer etc.. i see many limitation.. Maybe Conitec could release a full HSLS support Dll no?

no it won't. you schdör me. that's not hlsl standard code but max specific stuff. you should seriously read a beginner's tutorial about shaders.

hey im telling you.. its 3d max shader fx. I mean i don't know if you know but. 3d max can as shaders .Fx file as materials.. And the glow shader is a FX file, if i import it to render monkey it will work etc.. etc..

I just need to convert of course some materials problemas, the now problem is that. GS is weird with render target. I mean its hard for me to use it.
Butim expert at shader conversion, thgouh creating my own shaders is more difficult.

afaik rendermonkey and fx composer are capable of reading/writing MAX spesific stuff.

hum but why you say specific?
just need to rename some vars and thats it. .
oh and the string tags that are not used for Gs.

if it's just some renaming then you can do it by yourself, for sure?

yes and i did.. but i got a problem.

texture GlowMap1 : RENDERCOLORTARGET;

sampler GlowSamp1 = sampler_state
{
texture = <GlowMap1>;
AddressU = CLAMP;
AddressV = CLAMP;
AddressW = CLAMP;
MIPFILTER = NONE;
MINFILTER = LINEAR;
MAGFILTER = LINEAR;
};

texture GlowMap2 : RENDERCOLORTARGET ;



The render color target semantics input is not acepted for GS. The glowmap2 won't be considered as a render color target and won't event work, so the fx file wont work if no render target are set. I though about assign somekind of material and then post process it, but this is a Object shader plus post processing using render to texture shader. thus renaming won't work because Gs has no render to texture feature developed like other engines do, that initialaze a render buffer and work with is.

I have TargetMap in A7 but not sure if it will do the job.

it will. render to texture is implemented since a6, afaik. that's the problem, you're fiddling with a shader file which works for 3ds max and you think that it's standard compliant, though it isn't. you need to code some lines in lite-c or c-script to set up a render target.