possible way to make a shiny mc with bad gfx cards (HALO PC)

Choking Victim · Post by **Choking Victim** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 1:10 pm

this is for halo pc: ok my graphics card sucks and mc is white and not shiny. but i was playing on the first level (the pillar of autumn) and i noticed that the glass on the cryo tubes had light reflecting off of it making it look shiny and if i moved the reflection moved too like a real time reflection would. heres a pic: http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=8/23914574539.jpg&s=x2 so i was wondering if it was possible to take that reflection and apply it to mc so that if i made a green skin for him he would shine like that so is it possible? if so how would i do it?

Choking Victim · Post by **Choking Victim** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:15 pm

can anyone help me?

Xiion · Post by **Xiion** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 6:29 pm

im not sure how, maybe save the dds of it and inject over a cubemap or something... that wold actually be pretty awsome for people with bad gfx

Choking Victim · Post by **Choking Victim** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 6:57 pm

theres a cryo glass cubemap that i tried injecting over the rflection armor of mc's suit but that didn't work.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:13 pm

The cryo glass is just specularity of the lights bouncing off. (Correct?)

It's not possible to have an actual shader that is cubemapped around an object on a bad graphics card.

Choking Victim · Post by **Choking Victim** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 2:20 am

alright thanks

. man i thought i found a solution for my plain mc.