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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Any free "dull" shaders?

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SekoIdiootti
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Posted: 25th Mar 2010 20:44
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Well, I've been kinda annoyed lately, because I don't know if there is any "dull" shaders for characters... I mean, so they'd look like part of the environment... I mean, all character shaders are always so shiny...
And CoZ's shaders might be the answer, but I've read that he doesn't allow everyone using his shaders...
So... Is there any?

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Aaagreen
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Posted: 25th Mar 2010 20:47
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I agree, character shaders should have light phong not be covered in water

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Posted: 25th Mar 2010 21:17
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well you can try writing your own shader with notepad++


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PW Productions
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Posted: 25th Mar 2010 21:22
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Quote: "well you can try writing your own shader with notepad++"


Writing? From scratch? You could try editing a shader but it would take lots of work and lots of fails

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Shadowtroid
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Posted: 25th Mar 2010 21:48
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Well, the MP 22 character shader template is pretty good for this. If you have MP 22 and Dark Shader you can make an awesome character shader.

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SekoIdiootti
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Posted: 25th Mar 2010 23:11
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Well, I don't have Dark Shader... And for some reason, all shaders of MP22 don't work... So, well...
Also, PW Productions, I've tried editing shaders, but with no success... I just can't make anything that is "dull"...

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Shadowtroid
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Posted: 26th Mar 2010 00:32
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They don't? What graphics card do you have?

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Posted: 26th Mar 2010 00:54 Edited at: 26th Mar 2010 01:09
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All my character shaders DO have a phong specular component, in MP22 and Zombie Apocolypse. Phong and Blinn lighting calculate diffuse lighting the same way, the only difference is in how spec is calculated.

How shiny you make them is up to you. If you set the specular map to pure black, or nearly black, you will have nice soft diffuse lighting. Also, if you are editing MP22 shaders, keep the glossiness and globalspec value low as well.

In the Dark Shader video included for MP22, you can see how I make the Dante character appear to be made out of a clay-like material.



Quote: " And for some reason, all shaders of MP22 don't work"


For example?

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Toasty Fresh
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Indeed. To get a dull shader, all you need is CoZ's entity shader, and edit the spec map so it's less shiny. Basically, just make a normal map from the character's texture, desaturate, invert, then turn down the brightness and up the contrast. There's your specular map. The blacker something is the less shiny it will be when the shader is applied.

Hope I helped
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Posted: 26th Mar 2010 20:02
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Quote: "but I've read that he doesn't allow everyone using his shaders"


All of my shaders may be used for Non-commercial use (commercial use requires my permission.

On the shader front, I have been keeping my SM4 shader dev (including SM3)quiet for some time, although all shall be revealed when the migration is released.

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SekoIdiootti
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Posted: 26th Mar 2010 21:03
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@CoZ: Oh, I didn't know that.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2010 06:34 Edited at: 27th Mar 2010 06:35
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Quote: "Also, PW Productions, I've tried editing shaders, but with no success... I just can't make anything that is "dull"..."


Yes, I never said I didn't ever try to mess with shaders or that you have no shader knowledge; I have a wide knowledge of shaders (and apparently you do know how to edit shaders) and have edited and 'created' (with the help of things like bond1's MP22 tutorial) multiple FX files. I was simply saying it would be nearly impossible for a user to write a shader from scratch.

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SekoIdiootti
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Posted: 27th Mar 2010 10:10
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Yeah, I know what you meant. And I didn't mean what you thought I meant, LOL! I meant that making something that isn't overly shiny isn't somehow possible, lol...

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Posted: 27th Mar 2010 20:02
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Yeah, I just realised how I misunderstood you real bad, oops. I'm so tired^^

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