Things that I need clarified for Leadwerks 2.5

[flachdrache]

Right - you just get that many workhours from people before it starts to degrade ... that's why "crunchTime" just works for a week or so.

 

anyways,

afaik or iirc glsl does not scale with the users hardware just like that - the shader need's to be compiled before execution and to be able to do that the engine needs to agree to a version used. That's not openGL thats shading language 100 (version 1.20.8 or something). If you can override that (by rewriting / implementing another shaderversion) i dont know and only josh might can tell.

 

ps: thats the short and "sick and tired to spell check" version ...

 

hth

[paramecij]

I'm writing SM3.0 code in LE2,... but theoretically (not tested) you can do something like this:

#extension GL_EXT_gpu_shader4 : enable

inside a shader if it's an OpenGL 2.0+ renderer with 1.20 or so shader model (which LE2 is) .. if supported by gfx card and driver of course

 

according to this nvidia doc, you can,

but check http://feedback.wild...EXT_gpu_shader4 on the support ..

 

 

. But I would still check with Josh if this is paramount to you.

[GameMaker]

Why is answer to my question number 1 ( in the first post ) is "no" ?

 

The documentation here -

 

http://www.leadwerks...ng-terrain-r521

 

states that I can assign material files starting with a prefix name of _terrain to each of the terrain texture layers.

 

So, what is stopping me from using parallax occlusion shader ( that comes by default within Leadwerks 2.5's material editor ) within my material file and applying it to my desired texture layer ?

 

Please clarify.

 

[/background][/size][/font][/color]

No.

 

 

Yes.

 

 

Yes.

 

 

No.

 

 

Yes.

 

 

We don't use lightmaps. There's a few things like vegetation that only can be created in the editor.

 

 

Not really.

 

 

There's a link to the docs in the site header.

 

I don't understand this. You want the effects set up for you, but you don't?

[Josh]

So again please confirm

 

1. What GLSL versions are supported by Leadwerks 2.5 ?

 

2. What OpenGL versions are supported by Leadwerks 2.5 ?

2.1 and 1.2, respectively, which is supported by almost everything now.

[GameMaker]

Thank you for the clarification regarding OpenGL and GLSL. So I will have to learn GLSL version 1.2 to use Leadwerks 2.5.

 

Could you please clarify the question asked by me in post number #28 ( the one just before yours ) regarding application of parallax occlusion mapping shader or any other shader that comes by default in material editor to each texture layer of the terrain ?

[Josh]

You don't need to learn GLSL to use Leadwerks, unless you are doing custom shaders. It's a rather advanced area of knowledge.

 

We don't support parallax occlusion in the terrain shader. It would require an expensive calculation for each layer, and would be very slow.

[GameMaker]

So apart from normal mapping what else can be used ? Is parallax mapping, bump mapping supported on terrain texture layers ?

[Admin]

Nothing else, just normal maps.

[flachdrache]

fyi : Its allways better to describe what you like to archive - especially with a bunch of programmers of different backgrounds.