Shader Model 3.0 in Unreal and UT

[[]KAOS[]Casey]

I noticed it seems to act differently depending on the map, is it like that on all maps?

[Wastelander0101]

I noticed it seems to act differently depending on the map, is it like that on all maps?

Hmm, well on stalwart its most pronounced(eye killer eeek:P) on the walls, where the color was grey, now with shaders is white like there is nuclear blast all the time...

But mostly all fx and colors are oversaturated. Maybe you could send me your ini so we can see if there is any difference?

[[]KAOS[]Casey]

My config is the default so i doubt it would make any difference

[HeadShot]

It's the map lighting, the maps were not made with shader 3.0 in mind.

[Hyper]

rainbow colors? whats your video card

nVidia 8800GTX. The way it's meant to be played, isn't it?

[[]KAOS[]Casey]

If I remember right according to the guy's website.. yes

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

Would it work on GeForce 6800?
Did someone try?

[[]KAOS[]Casey]

anything that has shader model 3 should work alright

[Raven]

Maybe it doesn't belong to the forum, but I think it should be mentioned in this thread. Residual Decay (UT mod) has also shader support (OpenGL and soon D3D9), right now only as post process effects. In game it'll be used differently. I want to port it to U1 once Residual Decay is released. Anyway, here's video:

HD:
SD:

more info at: http://rednemesis.beyondunreal.com/

[.:..:]

Intresting how many UT map pack projects have all these fancy effects, but yet I have seen none of them released.

[Raven]

RD will be released one day. I can't say when will it be released though Mr. Prophet is a person to ask not me. This is just side effect of my studies on UEngine.

[qduaty]

Well, with the Boris Vorontsov's enbseries (ie. the "mod"), version 0075d, custom shaders work! So i got a question: does anyone of you know about a free implementation of Steep Parallax Mapping in HLSL?

I'm ready to port it to Unreal, if it won't work out of the box.

[Raven]

They do? So I can define eg. new bump map for texture (those generic bump maps looks damn ugly) or custom post process effects? Anyway it's very cool addon but without full integration with UEngine it won't be so useful in mods.

[qduaty]

It fully integrates with either dx8 and dx9 unreal renderers from 227. Just copy d3d9.dll and d3dx9_26.dll into unreal/system, edit the enbseries.ini if you have a weak graphic card (9800GT works with any settings); use pure MS Windows (Wine has shader problem in dx mode). For dx8, there is an "enbconvertor", which consists of another wrapper library d3d8.dll and enbconvertor.ini.

It works like that: when using dx9 render, Windows looks for the d3d9.dll, and since the ./ directory has a precedence, Boris' library is loaded instead of the system one.

Parallax mapping also works and can be seen in Unreal intro. Bump algorithm in enbseries is naive, so it either produces garbage or no bumps at all, but if you have a proper bump map, and assuming the Unreal dx9 renderer already supports bump mapping, you should be able to see it as a beautiful, parallax-mapped surface.

Custom shaders work only as post-processing. The library (d3d9.dll) supports one file "effect.txt", which is a HLSL shader. I found a pack of them on GTA San Andreas forums.

Edit: I already asked Boris to enable custom bump shaders.

[Raven]

I didn't tested it in Unreal, but in UT I can see even sky and water bumpmapped which doesn't look too good and natural .

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

Maybe remove the bump map on sky and water textures?

Or put a special flag in the texture (like Invisible, Bright Corners, Fake Backdrop, etc.) that indicated should it have a bump map or not.

[KillerSkaarj]

Wait, the bump maps are when the textures become all squiggly up close, right?

So shaders are what let the light system interact with bump maps?

[qduaty]

I can see even sky and water bumpmapped

So that I. Thanks to to the bump generator. Boris wrote that he won't waste time to tune the library for each game and left 10 variables, controlled with a number key + PGUP/PGDN. Six are internal, the other 4 you can use in your shader. So press 6 and PGUP to get rid of these bumps.

[Age]

http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 741ga0.jpg

Is there a way disable these ugly looking ice/plastic styled textures while using Shader model 3.0?

[GreatEmerald]

So press 6 and PGUP to get rid of these bumps.

[Age]

So press 6 and PGUP to get rid of these bumps.

Works well.

[Shivaxi]

Ok wait....is the shader model 3.0 for Unreal released or not? I'm getting mixed posts here...

[KillerSkaarj]

It's released, there's a link somewhere in the original thread on BeyondUnreal.

[Age]

Ok wait....is the shader model 3.0 for Unreal released or not?  I'm getting mixed posts here...

http://boris-vorontsov.narod.ru/download_en.htm

[qduaty]

I have written a simple shader that may help with Boris' parallax mapping. It uses the same normal map algorithm (5-tap Sobel) and adds a relief to the image. This way, bumps are much sharper. Screenshot (copy and paste to the url bar): francetelecom.freehost.pl/files/Shot0004.jpg Shader is here: http://francetelecom.freehost.pl/files/effect.txt. Save the file "effect.txt" in your unreal/system directory.

If it looks too sharp, use key 9 or 0 together with PGUP/PGDN.