As we wait for the next release, thought I'd share progress with shaders. The 'glow' shader adds an aura around the entity, nice enough, but I've added control via lua script so the aura changes colour as health drains away. Also has a couple of texture swaps based on health - from none (so entity appears invisible with just the aura glow, to full diffuse, to black (when character dead). Just testing at the moment and if Lee could (pretty please) add in a few lua-engine-shader variables for custom user usage these effects would become much easier to achieve - having to coerce existing variables at the moment but as these are for other purposes it's not ideal.

Cheers.

Takes me back to something a much younger me once dabbled with.

LINK TO THAT

What you have done here is, of course, far different and better executed, but hey! Nothing like nerdy nostalgia, right?

Your shader looks nothing short of what is seen in the big titles. I can see many uses for that! Your work never ceases to amaze!



-Wolf

Very nice.Thanks for posting.

Very cool, don't think the black adds anything but for proof of concept its interesting.
Can you adjust the brightness and does it still glow in complete darkness or fog?

Ooohh, this is handy. Picture an enemy with "invisibility" activated (how the Stealth Boy functions in Fallout). All you can see are these slight outlines. As you attack the enemy he becomes more visible.

yes this is really nice...been playing around with some shaders to do same sort of effects....

Reminds me of Predator! Nice!

Thanks for the replies

@wolf that looks cool (or hot actually, but in the heat sense). Wonder if that shader could be ported to GG?

@smallg - yes the black doesn't really impress but I didn't have a 'destroyed' texture to hand. It does have a 'glow' power and works in dark (this can be changed so it doesn't). Currently using the fog variable to change the colours of the entity, would be much better if some spare/custom variables were available for user use.

I tried the "vertex fur.fx" and "vertex fur2.fx" effect files but couldn't get them to work, they were invisible but no glow ....yet

really cool, imagine seeing these guys emerging from the dark with that sinister glow

@Bored of the Rings - 'fur2' sort of works - but then I'm not really sure what the effect is supposed to look like . There might be a gold mine of other shaders that Wolf has referenced on the other TGC forum.



@smallg - bet you could come up with some wicked cool scripts for it (and with texture swaps) if we could get those custom shader variables from Lee

EDIT: looks better when the colours tuned a bit:



@Wolf - your 'old flame' is attached - err, sorry

Really cool stuff going around these days, what grabs my interest here is how you scripted the alt textures.