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I was concerned with the shader in BRFEdit because it seems it retains a lot of information from the shader that was imported.
I've no idea what it does though. 

I think I broke it:


When you add the shader in BRFEdit, are there any particular settings to use?
I imported agent_shader and just changed the name and file.

Edit: The above effect only happens indoors. Outdoors, it's just invisible.

Oh, precioussss. I spy a picture of some kind of early ducks-foot pistol, a wheel-lock no less! And the swords...

Thanks for the link Merlkir. 

How did you get your "bumpmap"? Knowing that I can give you a more detailed answear as to whether or not that's a ready "normalmap" to be used in current  M&B shaders.

Maybe I should have said height map. A simple black and white one, like this:


I would use the nvidia plugin, but someone said that the native normal maps are green because Armagan's put the red channel in the alpha channel or similar. I'm assuming that the normal maps created with the nvidia plugin won't work because of that.


As for suggestions, you said that Armagan's agreed to allow shaders to be affected by scripts. Can a texture be switched for another one using a script?
I'm mainly thinking of seasons here. If you could switch the grass texture for a snow one, change the tree foliage to appear dead, and make an invisible texture change to make icicles appear, that would go an awful long way to representing seasons in M&B.

And Yoshiboy: Thanks for the link to crazybump. It looks fantastic - downloading now. 

Mtarini has been doing some very impressive things with TLD, and I know Scion has dabbled in shaders, so I thought the time was right to devote a topic to the uh, topic.

I think a few of us are rather intrigued about how far the new shaders can go. Is it possible to write a dynamic normal map shader for instance? Can shaders be made that affect everything on the screen, for some post-production style effects? I certainly didn't think the banner waving shader was possible, so I don't know what to expect.

So, anyway, to start off, what's the procedure for making normal maps now? I've got a bump map that I need making into a normal map, but I don't know how to got about it.

Unfortunately, you can't multimesh helmets. 

Thanks. Brightening up the iron should be easy. I was mainly overcompensating for the ironshader.

The mask is '3d'. I've pulled the vertices out a bit more to give it extra depth.
The beard on the third one is supposed to be more of a moustache. I could do a more beardy one though.