Hi guys
Well, I've trying some shaders looking for the mirror efect, although I don't get it yet, I've encountered with funy efects along the way.
The shader I'm testing now include self-ilumination, given some nice illum efect; so I wonder if I use this shader as ilumination map, does take advantage for the perfomance sake, instead of use I.dds map?

Firts time I test the shaders I though the light ray coming from the sun....

ilumination test1



so I decide to do a second try withou lights(full darkness)....

ilumination test2



fun efect with the wizard



I'm not shaders expert, anyway I'm poking my noses, I want to learn how they work, so this also serves me to learn a little about their operation.

This shader is not mine, I can post the link here, if someone is remotely interested about.
The main goal of this shader is to simulates reflective metals.

3com

The first two images look as if the normal is just showing. What form of textures were wanted in the FX file?
Was there a spot for spec _s and ill _i?

In firts try (firts vid), using author textures, and second one, my owns.
In both shader use D,N,S files and 2 cubemaps
ambient Cube Texture: This is a diffusely convolved cube map, for ambient lighting.
reflection Cube Texture: This a "regular" cube map, for reflections in the ambient lighting pass.

Difuse map should be mostly void of lighting detail. It holds an ambient occlusion map in the alpha.

Both does not using I.dds file.

As stated above, the metal shader simulates reflective metals. It has a 24-bit specular map, dual specular highlights (one tight and saturated, one broad and duller), and a mask for reflection (shinier areas get non-blurry reflections).

I've attached zip with the map files I used in second try, plus the modified shader file, if someone like to try it, even improved it.

3com

Wow, it seems everyone is getting into the dark magic of shaders lately, lol. Some interesting things are coming about!

Ok, I will check it out.
Thanks.