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Hello,

I have been working on a deffered lightning system, basically it just returns a "light value" to cam view relatively to where the light is, the radius of the light and the object(s) distance that is(are) affected by it. But it just calculates it for now, and probably not accurate.

I was wondering how would i go on retrieving the texture an object is holding? Because I got a dbo file, wich holds alot of textures. It loads in automaticaly. How do I know what textures are loaded in?

I know this could be easier done in hlsl coding(not saying it's easy, must be hard), but i am not an pro in shader coding, i was just testing if I could manage to get some deffered calculation working, and get some visual feedback.

For what I am trying, I can retrieve Mamb from scene, + Mspec.

And maybe some other info on this(Deffered Lightning Topic)?

Thanks,

RedEye

I think you can use dbLimbTextureName() for this. Either limb by limb, or just use limb 0 for the whole object.



Do you mean just the texture thing or Defferred Lighting? If you mean Deffered Lighting I would strongly recommend to do it with HLSL shaders, especially since the new DarkGDK 7.5 features the RENDERCOLORTARGET semantic.
But then, since you said your not that good with shaders it might be too hard to achieve decent Deffered Rendering...

I once tried it, but with less shader experience than today and without the new DGDK features, so I didn't have much success...
I remember this GameDev-Article helped a bit. I think Evolved had a working Deffered Rendering running in DBPro too.

Good Luck!

@Pauli: REally thanks! Yeah my shaderskills arent very high,, I am planning buying a book on hlsl tho.

Anyway, will look into the new feature. Thanks for the link, i will take a look at it. Yeah Evolved inspired me to take a look at deffered rendering / lightning formules.