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Program Announcements / Fed up with boring Lightmaps?

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Chenak
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Posted: 5th Sep 2006 17:51 Edited at: 5th Sep 2006 17:57
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Fed up with darkened dull lightmaps from 3dws? Want to make your lightmaps slightly more dynamic and colourful? Well today you can! A shader that changes the colour and brightness of your lightmapped object without any hassle!

An added bonus is that your texture coordinates don't explode annd Its basically plug and play!

It works perfectly it seems with 3dws levels (terrains may not work because of the vertex lighting) and it should work with darklights and gile[s] rendered objects too.

Heres a screenie



Unfortunatly it only seems to like working with Shader model 2. If your card doesn't support it... seriously buy a new one

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Chenak
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Posted: 5th Sep 2006 17:55
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Here's the example itself, enjoy

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TEH_CODERER
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Posted: 5th Sep 2006 21:38 Edited at: 5th Sep 2006 21:41
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Couldn't you just lighten the lightmap image? I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting this does so I'll take a look and get back to you.

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Strange! It almost glows! I'm going to take a look at the shader.[/Edit]

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Chenak
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Posted: 6th Sep 2006 01:34
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You could, but you can have over 10 lightmaps depending on the size of the level. This makes things a lot easier. Plus you can do things like light up individual rooms when you turn on a switch, basic day/night cycles etc. You wont get moving shadows but this should produce a fairly nice effect
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The ARRAYinator
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Posted: 6th Sep 2006 05:08
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Looks nice! I hate to go off topic but could you please tell me where you learned how to program dbpro compatible shaders. Theres very little info I could find on the subject. I f you could give me a link or anything that be really cool!



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Chenak
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Posted: 6th Sep 2006 15:39
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There is this which helps a lot.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=49137&b=1

If you want to program shaders I'm afraid you have to buy the books since online tutorials in this subject are usually lacking in details.
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