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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Realistic Water-Shading

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Xanatus
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Posted: 26th Sep 2003 15:50
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Anyone have a idea how to add a realistic water shading effect in dbp?
Is there any snippet or working .fx file available?
I saw that commercial banner at the start of darkbasicpro.com so iam asking.

I found this shading effect in the DX9 SDK:
http://xanatus.com/water.fx
but i havent got it to work...

it will be nice if sombody could help me

ps: sorry for that bad english
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 26th Sep 2003 16:33
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The shader shown on the front of the DBPro site is included with Upgrade 5 for DBPro. So you don't have to find one, you're given one

Personally though there is a much better water shader in the latest RenderMonkey (ATI) build, however their Export to .FX feature is dead as dead can be, so no go there.

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Xanatus
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Posted: 26th Sep 2003 17:24
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how can i call the water effect? whats the name of the .fx or the command?
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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 26th Sep 2003 18:50
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RenderMonkey 1.0 Final exports .fx fine for me Rich... but exporting a shader is only a fraction of the needs for such things - you will still need some values going into them oftenly.

the shader is probably called water.fx and there are a few in the [dbpro]\compiler\effects directory

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Xanatus
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Posted: 26th Sep 2003 19:18
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I found no water.fx in my DBP derectory.
In the compiler\effects derectory is only a bump.fx, cartoon.fx & rainbow.fx.

can anyone send me the files at [email protected] ?
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Chenak
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Posted: 26th Sep 2003 20:44
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I dont have that either...

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Anvirol
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Posted: 27th Sep 2003 02:01
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Raven if you got time pls help Xanatus with this issue. There's probably like 10 people in db pro forums that know how to use those shaders well. I exported that water effect from Ati rendermonkey but so far he didn't get it to work, it only set object invisible so I'm guessing the .fx file is missing some parameters. He got all the files that are required for that reclections refractions water fx.


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Posted: 27th Sep 2003 05:13 Edited at: 27th Sep 2003 05:15
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The "Dark Basic ProfessionalHelpexamplesbasic3dfx" directory contains 3 sample shader effects with their respective .fx files.


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Xanatus
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Posted: 27th Sep 2003 05:37
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that wasnt the question. iam searching a water effect, nothing else.
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Chenak
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Posted: 27th Sep 2003 17:09
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Still cant find these shaders that were supposed to come with u5. Rich could you please tell us where they are

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Preston C
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Posted: 27th Sep 2003 17:29
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Sorry to be a burden but, my entire Dark Basic Profesional folder is also lacking the water shader. Any download link


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Richard Davey
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Posted: 27th Sep 2003 17:34 Edited at: 27th Sep 2003 17:38
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Quote: "RenderMonkey 1.0 Final exports .fx fine for me Rich"


Except they don't actually work in the DX9 Effect Viewer and have a statement at the top of the exported FX files saying they'll need modification in order to even run. If you know how to modify their shaders in the first place to get them even running, there's no point using it because it means you're capable of creating them anyway! To mis-quote a great Jedi: "Shaders, for novices, are not".

Everyone else:

As for the water shader, strange.. I could have sworn it was included in U5. Never mind, I'll talk to Lee about releasing it, it must be DBDN only at the moment.

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Ian T
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Posted: 27th Sep 2003 18:47 Edited at: 27th Sep 2003 18:47
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Yeah, the water shader is only in the DBDN pack I think.

...but I can't get it to work on plains anyhow

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Posted: 27th Sep 2003 19:51 Edited at: 27th Sep 2003 19:52
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Mouse - a plain object doesn't have enough vertices for it to work. You need to use a plain created in a 3D package that is say 10x10 or 20x20 in size (i.e. lots of little plains stuck in a grid). Only then can it deform the object in the wave pattern as needed. I can email you a 3D object it works on if you like, just mail me.

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