Anyone know anything about Shaders?

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:20 pm

what the topic title says

foxfanatic23I7 · Post by **foxfanatic23I7** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:17 pm

Trep sure does. That is all I know about shaders.

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:20 pm

foxfanatic23I7 wrote:Trep sure does. That is all I know about shaders.

lol I know he does, but hes never on aim.

WastingBody · Post by **WastingBody** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:54 pm

Do you mean Halo 2 shaders, 3Ds Max shaders, or whatever?

halo0001 · Post by **halo0001** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:02 pm

WastingBody wrote:Do you mean Halo 2 shaders, 3Ds Max shaders, or whatever?

i believe halo2 shdrs is implied if its in the halo 2 modding discussion thread

lol jk

DarkMetal · Post by **DarkMetal** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:10 pm

I do, what do you want to know about them?

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:05 pm

well, I wanted to know how the game engine knew what texture to use as a base, because it lists all the textures inside the resources, but I can't really make out if its in a special order. I needed to figure out what texture it used to render... well I found inside one of the other reflexives

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:20 pm

Well you need to be more specific about the shaders...I don't know too much really but I can change them to have things like detail,reflection and whatever else maps on them, and making them shiny and stuff...But hardly anything in detail...

theycallmechad · Post by **theycallmechad** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:43 pm

I have learned a thing or two about shaders, but I don't understand what you're asking. Feel free to PM me, ask here, or ask me on MSN.

kibito87 · Post by **kibito87** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:29 am

I'll just throw this out there but i'm guessing what he's asking for is how the game knows what shader's to apply to what surface/texture/model. Since there is a list of them, he's asking if they are in a pre-defined list that the game may be using in a specific order.

kornman00 · Post by **kornman00** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:30 am

Wait, you where just wanting to know which was the primary basemap? It should be the first bitmap reference in the bitmaps tag block (offset 16) in the shader tag.

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:22 am

If you want to know how to do technical stuff with shaders then i can help but you need to be more specific in your question.

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:17 am

kornman00 wrote:Wait, you where just wanting to know which was the primary basemap? It should be the first bitmap reference in the bitmaps tag block (offset 16) in the shader tag.

heh now you tell me

well lastnight I finially had some more time to look into it and I did find the primary basemap

The reason I did'nt want to get specific as in what exactly I was looking for is because I want to know everything that you guys know about shaders. If I limited it to the basemap then well thats all I woulda gotten info on even though I have figured that out as showed in that pic I posted.

Another thing I would like otknow is how does it know what order to apply the textures, it seems in the the resoruces that the bump always comes first if there is one.

oh btw sometimes the basemap is null and I take the first bitmap in the resource reflexive, is that wrong?

thanks

p.s. dont forget I want to know everything thats why I didnt get specific

kornman00 · Post by **kornman00** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:47 am

Try to get on aim before I goto bed so I can tell you more, I'm not posting it here.

Th2mods · Post by **Th2mods** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:31 pm

Anthony wrote:well, I wanted to know how the game engine knew what texture to use as a base, because it lists all the textures inside the resources, but I can't really make out if its in a special order. I needed to figure out what texture it used to render... well I found inside one of the other reflexives

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/4277 ... iengg1.png

iv heard of H2 sapien... but what is it? is it an app you are working on?

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:53 pm

No, this must be H2 Lollerskating v2.3495736

Th2mods · Post by **Th2mods** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:54 pm

man... i was asking if it is a released program. or if he is working on it

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:06 pm

Its a program he and some other people are developing, duh.

Th2mods · Post by **Th2mods** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:09 pm

G.I.R. wrote:Its a program he and some other people are developing, duh.

why do u have to be all mean about it, i didn't know that

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:38 pm

TH2MODSoULMBoCOM wrote:man... i was asking if it is a released program. or if he is working on it

yes it is a program that I am working on that goes with H2G and H2Core

its funny how much of a impact lightmaps can have on a map