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Lit Particles

by thanasimos · in Torque 3D Professional · 03/04/2014 (4:29 am) · 4 replies

Hello there,

Has anyone managed to add support for normal mapped particles? I'm trying to do something like this:





Also, a normal mapped particle can be able to receive light/cast shadows even on deferred lighting ?
I know that particles in advanced lighting are forward rendered last, after all opaque objects, so is this possible?
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Associate Tim Newell
Max Gaming Technologies
#1
03/04/2014 (4:55 am)
Unless something has changed, particles dont use shaders at the moment. So they would need to be hooked up to shadergen to allow normal maps.

Torque Owner Lukas Joergensen
WinterLeaf Entertainment
#2
03/04/2014 (7:20 am)
They use shaders afaik, it's just not currently possible to change the shader it uses.

Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#3
03/05/2014 (3:38 am)
I think Tim is referring to procedural (generated) shaders, which they're currently not using.

Associate Tim Newell
Max Gaming Technologies
#4
03/05/2014 (4:06 am)
yeah i was. You could however possibly modify the particle custom shader and make it use normalmapping if you want all particles to use it.