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FPSC Classic Product Chat / [Free] ESM Shader Update 1.1.1 - Update existing media to use Shaders & generate Shader Textures

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Doomster
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Posted: 25th Jun 2011 13:12 Edited at: 27th Jul 2011 23:06
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//Information


"ESM Shader Update" searches folders for existing entities or segments and extends them with the selected shaders, optionally it also allows to rename the textures (Texturname becomes Texturename_D2 and a Texturename_D copy is created) and to create a backup of the entities & segments.

This allows to make all entities & segments shader-ready in one go, aven the _N & _I shader textures are automatically generated by the application!

However, this program is only meant to be used for existing segments, if you want to create new shader-ready segments: Model Maker 2.0.5.

//Features


Shaders can be selected
Different shaders for floor & wall & entities
Renaming of the textures
Backup Creation
Backup Management (Restore & Delete Backups of the original Media)
Automatically generates Normal- & Illumination-Maps

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1.1.1 - 27.7.2011 (206 KB)



-Doomster

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Bejasc3D
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Posted: 25th Jun 2011 14:41
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Sounds very handy!
I'm guessing it will only rename all the maps from coppies of the original diffuese, so it is just making it compatible with shaders, rather than making them 100% shader ready?
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Doomster
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Posted: 25th Jun 2011 16:45 Edited at: 25th Jun 2011 16:50
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Correct. The current version will only add the selected shaders into the effect fields of all segments / entities and rename the textures, but will not generate any kind of shader map.

However, the new version, that's currently in the works, allows the generation pf normal and illumination / specular maps on the fly.

-Doomster

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Scope
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Excellent stuff.Thanks for all the handy little programs you have given us.
Scope.
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s4real
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Nice work again Doomster, Im sure many people will find this very usefull and save them some time.

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Soviet176
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Posted: 25th Jun 2011 19:25
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Very nice work! again another quality program. This stuff really helps cut dev time.


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Thanks for this great tool. It will come in very handy in my next games.

Thanks

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michael x
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Posted: 26th Jun 2011 01:03 Edited at: 27th Jun 2011 05:19
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man you read my mind I talking about a program like this.thank you soooo much doomster. you are the man with handy tools.you are the best.

more than what meets the eye

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Doomster
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Posted: 27th Jul 2011 19:35 Edited at: 27th Jul 2011 20:44
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Thanks guys!

Version 1.1.1 released. This application now allows to automatically generate the shader textures (Normal Map & Illumination Map) and features backup management.

Example screenshot of two segments made shader-ready using ESM Shader Update:


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BlackFox
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Posted: 27th Jul 2011 20:09
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Another great and useful applet, Tim. You certainly come up with apps to help make our jobs as developers as easy as possible.

Thank you.

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Leaning Objects To The Side
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Posted: 27th Jul 2011 22:23
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WOW!! Doomster ur "ESM Shader" is going to really come in handy!! As always, you have put out another Awesome product!! thanks for the download! Keep up the Awesome work.

I hope you have a great day!.

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My God this shader is epic.

I just now realized I've had a typo in my signature for the past 3 years.
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DarkFrost
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MUAHAHAHAH WOOOO!

Thanks bro, this is just what I needed!

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Looks very useful, thanks



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Oblique
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Hey, I've tried your software on the stock WW2 segments with several stock shaders and metro theater shaders, and each time I got this, no matter which shader I applied. (see attached)

Am I doing something wrong, or are the stock segments not compatible with the ESM - Shader Update software?

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Red Eye
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It's a great new update. But surely generating maps isn't really handy as you can get more out of it by hand-crafting it. But still good litl software tho.

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This is amazing!

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Quote: "and each time I got this, no matter which shader I applied. (see attached)"


WoW! That picture is awesome! I'm gonna use this software now.

Brian.

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charger bandit
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So far this has been the biggest pain to do by hand for me. Thank you so much on doing this, helps me out a lot. This deserves a carrot


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Bestorio
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darn it! tried to upgrade old scifi segment shaders and now i can't get the old ones back and the textured are all screwed up! help! the textures are gone too!

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Quote: "Am I doing something wrong, or are the stock segments not compatible with the ESM - Shader Update software?"

Not related to this software. Have seen that bug on multiple occassions and it also happened to users that weren't even using ESM Shader Update, afaik, it's a hardware problem.

Already tried the example segment bond1 provided with the shader?

Anyway, just updated the ww2 segments with 1.1.1 and it worked fine, although I noticed that the floor / ceilings textures didn't recieve any shader maps (looking into that as we speak).

Quote: "darn it! tried to upgrade old scifi segment shaders and now i can't get the old ones back and the textured are all screwed up! help! the textures are gone too!"

Well, I can't reproduce what you're encounterng, since updating the scifi segments worked fine for me, but the application has "backup management" integrated, that allows to undo the changes.

Tested on v1.17.

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GreenDixy
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i can conferm part of it i did the upate to my segments and the scifi ones went wonky on there textures might of been the shaer i was using or the way i set it up will test again in a little while and post back

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@Doomster
I did it before i sent that question, it didn't work.

Tested on v1.18(BETA17)

I used the original .exe and chose "repair" then installed update again. lets see if it works.

BIG MISTAKE!
was supposed to add: norm_spec_tangentbasis.fx (segment shader)
actually added: norm_alphaspec_tangentbasis.fx (entity shader)

so that screwed up my segments

But still, your "undo" button is not working in the newest FPSC

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@Doomaster

Does this work with X10 too?
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Doomster
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Quote: "will test again in a little while and post back"

That'd be appreciated, thanks.

Quote: "so that screwed up my segments"

Good to know, that it wasn't the application's fault.

For future versions, I may try to add support for detecting whether the shader is meant for segments or entities, to prevent such mistakes, although I'm currently not all that sure on how to differentiate between them.

Quote: "But still, your "undo" button is not working in the newest FPSC"

I think I found the problem, seems to only occur, when the updated segments / entities already had shader textures. Will work on that soon.

Quote: "Does this work with X10 too?"

Good question... unfortuneately, I don't have any answer for that right now, but probably not.

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charger bandit
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OK I recently upgraded to Windows 7 and I experienced quite some errors that messed up my FPSC:

1. The app requests for msvcr71.dll and msvcp71.dll that aren't included with Windows 7

2. When it starts to backup and rename textures,it gives an matrix lib error from DBPro

Will there be any fixes?


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We're running Win 7 64bit on our laptop and ESM Shader works for us with no errors. The two files you mention are located in our Windows\System32 folder. You may need to download these DLLs and place in your folder, since other applications will require them as well. The backup/restore works fine on our end, so it could just be an issue on your system.


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charger bandit
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Posted: 1st Nov 2011 19:53 Edited at: 1st Nov 2011 20:06
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I have also downloaded those files and fixed it. I too run Win7 64bit,I might try disabling antivirus(AVG Free) and running as administrator. I'll report back in a minute.

EDIT: OK this time I disabled AVG and ran the app as admin,the segments went through nicely but entities made it crash:

Runtime error 5105 - Memblock position outside range at line 21

I honestly don't know how this happens.


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