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Name:	Diesel
Date Posted:	Nov 01, 2005
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dot3 bump mapping

It works:

interior bump2, fsaa fastest
interior bump, fsaa nicest, some bloom

These shots have parts with no bump mapping overlayed so you can see the difference.

I'll have it to get it to work with fog now. After that I'll try to add parallax bump mapping.

cheers

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James Laker (BurNinG) (Nov 01, 2005 at 09:28 GMT)

Sounds cool, but I get a Connection timeout viewing the pics.

EDIT: Also happened to me with your previous plan... So it's probably our firewall
Edited on Nov 01, 2005 09:30 GMT

Diesel (Nov 01, 2005 at 09:45 GMT)

The shots are quite big png files. Maybe that's why (dunno).

Aaron e (Nov 01, 2005 at 10:14 GMT)

Very nice. I look forward to seeing each of your .plans. You seem to be doing some really cool stuff.

Just curious, will this work on ATi and Nvidia cards?

Diesel (Nov 01, 2005 at 10:20 GMT)

This works on all cards with at least 3 (4 with fog) texture units and pixel shader support.

Aaron e (Nov 01, 2005 at 10:39 GMT)

Wow. Super quick response. Very cool news. I would love to know how you achieved this. If you ever do a tutorial for this, please let us know. I have a feeling it would be a big hit around here. :)

Thanks for answering

[edit: added the last part]
Edited on Nov 01, 2005 10:42 GMT

Steve L (Nov 01, 2005 at 10:41 GMT)

Very cool. Are you planning to release this as a resource or an add-on?

Diesel (Nov 01, 2005 at 11:39 GMT)

I will not release that as a ressource or add-on unless somebody helps me with support. Because of my day job I don't have time to answer questions, help people compile or code fall backs. It would basically ruin the few hours I can spend on playing with the engine. I am looking for people to help me getting this into a state where it can be released. Next steps for me right now are:

1. work on fog and bloom shader enhancements
2. add bump for meshes and statics
3. parallax bump
4. water block or shadows (whatever is easier comes first)
5. material system

Aaron e (Nov 01, 2005 at 12:19 GMT)

@Thomas

I don't blame you for approaching it that way -- it sounds like a fair enough proposition, though. I'm mostly clueless about coding so I wouldn't be much help, but hopefully someone else will have what it takes to lend a hand.

Chris Newman (Nov 01, 2005 at 12:59 GMT)

Release it as an alpha with no support.

Its a shame that many cool features will only be released when its done, just to have the developer never finish or just ups and leaves the community or project.

Diesel (Nov 01, 2005 at 13:10 GMT)

@chris: The implementation I have right now is simply not usable in a game project because it does little to no error checking and provides no fallbacks. Nobody would benefit from it.
Edited on Nov 01, 2005 13:14 GMT

Kirby Webber (Nov 08, 2005 at 16:39 GMT)

Doh - realized there's been updates since this was posted. =\
Edited on Nov 08, 2005 16:51 GMT

Treb Connell (formerlyMasterTreb (Nov 09, 2005 at 02:17 GMT)

those are really nice pics I'm going to have to learn some bump mapping asap.

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