3dsMax Viewport Shader

[[hP]]

I somehow made it to work, with some sort of "workaround".
For some reason, I have to have a copy of the same mesh, with that same material applied but without the shader, for it to work. I'll put a screenshot here, later tonight. I'm probably doing something wrong.

Another thing I noticed, is when you press the button to load a texture into the difuse, (or any other material) it opens a "Open file" dialog, with the default extension being ".fx" instead of tga, psd or any all the image files. Just being nitpicking, I know!

the results tho, are stunning! now I can see the speculars and normals almost as I would see them in the game, very good work man!

[swag]

Originally Posted by doylle

Does your graphics card support Vertex and pixelshader 3.0. If it doesn't then this is most likely going to give problems...

Ah, that's it. Mine doesn't support 2.0 either :P

Time for a new pc.

[Z-trooper]

Believe it or not I was just about to go create a thread asking if anyone knew a dx shader that supported both bump and specular maps (tired of the default one where I cant see specular maps not easy to work with and finetune).

Thank you very much Doylle for sharing your work with us mere mortals

[Addi]

works very well, now i can see my blurry textures, they always looked better when i rendered them :\

[doylle]

Ah, yea. Well the thing is, max has a few build in features to sharpen textures (you can find some options if you're in the bitmap submaterial, in your diffuse channel for example).

There are a few things you can change in the shader too, like instead of letting it interpolate, pick only 1 color (not in the GUI though, you'd have to do it in the code). but the result will looks really pixelated.
So, basicly, if your result is a bit blury, big chance that you texture is too. A sharpen pass on your texture could do the trick (it's something i always do tbh)

[Addi]

Hi again :P

It works really well for normals and specs,



but I'm wondering.. how does one get alphas/opacity to work? There isnt a slot for it, just a checkbox

Also, thanks again for your hard work doylle!

[doylle]

Originally Posted by Addi

but I'm wondering.. how does one get alphas/opacity to work? There isnt a slot for it, just a checkbox

Glad you like it...

Alpha goes in the alphachannel of the diffuse map

[Cryrid]

Nice shader. Works well in Mod Tools too : )

[sampson]

doylle it just shows black on my modelt- what did i do wrong

[doylle]

are you using valid texture sizes? they must be a power of two...