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The muzzle of the barrel probably shouldn't be hexagonal.

Good ol nwn, just one of the reasons I can't wait for Project Eternity.

Zombro hug

Bobthehero said:

Its a Kobold

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Point goes to Gryffindor!, it does look sad...& I feel like redo-ing that LizardMan now.

Thanks  , It's a mob from DnD...now just which one?,

Maya will just hold you back if your only using it for modeling (opinion highly subjective).
I decided to finish an old model from like 3-4 years ago, bonus points if you can tell what it is.
Contemplating making a stone spear and some clothes for him/her.

You would need a custom shader to pass information of the bones orientation to it, and have that drive different masks for each texture.

http://wiki.polycount.com/TilingRockWallBeyer

I made a modified hlsl language style for Notepad++ if anyone is interested
It should be pretty self-explanatory,
as I tried to add a specific style to each group of syntax, like all intrinsic HLSL and math functions show up in red
functions defined outside the shader show up in dark green
Anything with out. or in. prefix is light blue
samplers show up orange

linky https://www.dropbox.com/s/jxn9otv53jzkl3b/Warband_hlsl.xml

Also another resource explaining Coordinate Transforms http://www.yaldex.com/open-gl/ch01lev1sec9.html

Danik Golovanov said:

When Warband came out did people start making modifications of it once? I think I would play it for the first several months without event thinking about mods if it was good. Even if you don't agree what's the point of making a mod of a game you don't know anything about anyway? Character isn't the only thing which gets changed, most probably everything will.

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I was making mods for Warband during the beta, granted it was really small stuff (helmet and new face model) and with the absence of Openbrf I had a hell of a time getting certain features to work [in vanilla]. One of the things that attracted me to Vanilla M&B was the prospect of modding, even if only insane pioneers were doing it, that little drop-down with "current module" in the splash screen when you boot up the game was a promise of cool things to come.

Swyter said:

Nice work, mate.
As I've told you, Rendermonkey is probably easier to translate from. Keep us informed about how it goes!

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Yeah being the eediot I am I thought cg and hlsl were two different shader languages, turns out they are syntactically identical, (have avoided so many cg tutorials/resources lol).

Those links you sent me helped, namely this one, http://www.catalinzima.com/tutorials/crash-course-in-hlsl/
But I actually found nvidias cg tutorial  here http://http.developer.nvidia.com/CgTutorial/cg_tutorial_chapter02.html
And Cg Toolkit's manual downloadable here (mostly for explanation of syntax) super helpful https://developer.nvidia.com/cg-toolkit-download

Oh, and I gotta ask, is it normal that it takes about 1-2 minutes for the shaders to compile? running decent comp here x3370@3ghz

I laughed, but I think it's just his way of punishing the people too lazy to even read the previous page to see if anyone else had come across the same issue...or Lazy post = Lazy answer

Barabas said:

There is a native shader that uses a envmap texture and a specular texture. It's the 'envmap_shader'. If you mean a shader that actually reflects the environment, the water shader does something like that, but I'm not sure how it works.

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The envmap shader is broken, it looks more like a projected texture along the x axis that tilts with the camera.
I think what Henry wanted was hoping someone would create a proper version, preferably with a fresnel bias based on the facing ratio.


Screenie taken outside of MB of my own Shader network using the same texture. (texture is native to warband called envmap_medium


To get a real working result though it would have to change the envtexture depending on the time of day and in interiors, otherwise it will do what the current envshader is doing, glowing at night and indoors.

another pic of warbands weird envmap shader

I am learning HLSL but it's moving pretty slowly, I can write a very basic shader in FX composer
but translating them to warband is a pita.

Glad you guys like it, I was laughing somewhat maniacally as I made it 

Because I am bored