Modernization Kit Beta Thread 2

#301 Has anyone come up with a passable motion or radial blur shader for the modernization kit? I'm about twelve levels of stupid when it comes to writing shaders.

#302 Just a quick question, is this multiplayer ready or single player only? My multiplayer works, but only the host has the shaders working, all clients that connect get the funky no textured polygon look. Do I need to call something for the clients that are connecting to a server?
Thx.

#303 I think you should have a look at the MK initialization script in the CS script on the client side.

You must have it on the server section, but not on the client section.

Nicolas Buquet
www.buquet-net.com/cv/

#304 @Daniel: There were some very minor engine changes required, ~4 lines of code if I recall correctly. Or maybe that was for fogging, I really don't remember. Regardless, I know I needed the objectToWorld matrix for something so I tossed in a few lines to set it as a global parameter.

@Tom: Not that I know of.

@DALO: The MK should work on clients as well, though I don't recall ever explicitly testing that.

Back to another year of silence for me.

#305 Hello again,
2 quick questions:
1. Why does it seem to affect or even get rid of custom ambience on dts objects, as well as self-illumination? Can this be disabled? or fixed?
2. Based on certain video cards and openGL support, is it possible to completely turn of the Modern Kit for those cards that can't support it?
Thx.

#306 @Dalo,
1. Is this with Koushik's (excellent) DTS integration resource?
2. No.

#307 No I haven't implemented Koushik's resource......though it looks very interesting.

#308 Well in that case I haven't a clue.

#309 Looks awsome, Will try it out later today.

On a side note, Has anyone got this working with the RTS Kit?

#310 Well, I just got this up and running smoothly on the FPS Starter Kit. Looks, wonderfull.

Id like to implement it in to the RTS Starter kit aswell, I currently have the following error when trying,

"BSCMAKE: error BK1506 : cannot open file '..\tools\out.vc8.debug_fast\interiorCollision.sbr': No such file or directory"

Can anyone help me out with this problem?

#311 Hey Alex,
I guess My question 2 should have been a little more clear. Would it be possible to start or skip the modernization kit in the engine based on the users specs? The thing I would like try is if the users computer doesn't support it then a #define statement would decide if it will be loaded or not followed by a bunch of ifdef's? I just thought I'd see what you thought before I attempted hours of messing around and trying to get it to that state.
Thx.

#312 Well, #define and #ifdef are compile time, not runtime. That being said I know a couple of teams have successfully #ifdef'd the MK and will presumably have two executables available for download.

#313 I think I will be going the #ifdef route as well. Just a quick question - where should I place the #define? Does anybody know if the MK is compatible with Vista?

#314 Here's one method that I used, it seems to work ok thus far. I searched for this string in all of my solution files "OpenGL driver information". There's a chunck of code that get's the current version of the user's openGL. If they have openGL support for 2.0 then I'd set a pref variable in scripts. I think it's Con::setVariable("$pref::OpenGL_version", "2"); else it would be "1". With this variable in place the scripts would then exec either the scripts that used InteriorParallax20 shaders or the InteriorFF20 (no shaders). It does seem to work, because my older mac loads the InteriorFF20 shaders ( this is with the auto generated files turned off). Hopefully this will make it more playable across pc's.

#315 Huh, that's an interesting find. Thanks!

Does anyone know what this means?

Quote:Could not load this GL function: glFramebufferTexture2DEXT
Could not load this GL function: glFramebufferRenderbufferEXT
Could not load this GL function: glBindFramebufferEXT
Could not load this GL function: glBindRenderbufferEXT
Could not load this GL function: glGenFramebuffersEXT
Could not load this GL function: glBindFramebufferEXT

I'm guessing that something about the user's computer is not up to scratch. This sort of thing is spammed into the consle, interspersed with lines like

Quote:Generating material for texture MTLPILRBOTTOM, width 128, height 128

and

Quote:Render texture id is 384

This is obviously part of the autogen-materials process.

These errors are only ocurring on certain missions. I'm going to figure out what these missions are, so I can see what spefic things in the level could be causing the problem.

#316 That would correspond to the FrameBufferObject (FBO) extension in OpenGL. It isn't supported on your hardware - looks like you need to update your GPU mate. ;)

#317 Okay, thank you very much for the info. It wasn't me, though, it was one of my 'testers' :P.

#318 A general question: water tends to reflect objects that are just underneath the water, and it does so really wierdly. Is this a problem with the water shaders, or the MK coding?

#319 Ok, this has been getting me for some while.
Whenever I start up my game with the MK build (After deleting the DSOs) I get weird lines on every DIF model or brush or whatever.

If I switch the properties to GLlighting, the model shows the texture properly, but no lighting.

If I add a shape (And the engine doesn't crash) then the weird lines will be all sorts of different colors, depending on the shape.

And every once in awhile I'll get this nice error:

Fatal-ISV: (..\engine\interior\interiorIO.cc @ 1240) Invalid st coord encoding in Interior::readLMapTG

I'm using nearly stock 1.5.2 and have a Nvidia 8500GT (Drivers are updated.)

i32.photobucket.com/albums/d43/ninjadave90/shed1.jpg
Stock 1.5.2

i32.photobucket.com/albums/d43/ninjadave90/mkhelp.jpg
1.5.2 with MK.

If you notice, if I add a FX light near the funny lined DIF, the texture shows only in the area of the light.

I'm pretty confused. Help. :(

#320 In your 2nd screenshot (so with MK), be sure to recompile your DSO, and be sure you add the script modifications of the MK. In genral, this rendering comes from these errors.

Nicolas Buquet
www.buquet-net.com/cv/