Full Screen Shaders in TGEA 1.8.1 - FIX

Hi,

Recently I've been asking for some help on full screen shaders. However, with 1.8 came a new render core and with that, the old 1.7 full screen shader resource didn't work anymore.

A few days ago Siddartha posted a fix for the old 1.7 resource. However, this didn't quite work right. There was an engine crash and some missing variables, etc.

HOW-TO
1. Go to this resource and apply that. This isn't working just yet, bear with me.

2. Go to this resource and apply that. Just copy-paste it. Its a bit unclear, but its okay.

3. Now to fix that go into gameTSCtrl.h:

GFXShaderConstBufferRef  mConsts;
GFXShaderConstHandle*    mModelViewProj;
GFXTextureTarget*        mRenderTarget;		// ADD THIS

4. Go to gameTSCtrl.cpp and add the following #include statements:

#include "T3D/gameFunctions.h"
#include "gfx/gfxTarget.h"
#include "shaderGen/shaderGenVars.h"

5. Go to GameTSCtrl::renderWorldEffect(...) and change the following:

// TGEA 1.8 MOD - Begin
	if (mRenderTarget == NULL)
		mRenderTarget = GFX->allocRenderToTextureTarget();

to

// TGEA 1.8 MOD - Begin
	mRenderTarget = GFX->allocRenderToTextureTarget();

That's it. Now its working!

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