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Bump-mapping not working in ALS

Postby flyingfisch » Sat Oct 18, 2014 6:37 pm

When I disable ALS, bump-mapping looks fine, but when I enable it t it stops working. Is this a problem with ALS?
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Re: Bump-mapping not working in ALS

Postby Thorsten » Sun Oct 19, 2014 7:57 am

No, the bumpmap shader is legacy code and (intentionally) not supported in either Rembrandt or ALS. Aircraft modelers are advised to use the normal map functionality of model-combined-deferred.eff these days instead which offers more options and is supported by all rendering schemes.
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Re: Bump-mapping not working in ALS

Postby flyingfisch » Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:23 pm

Hmm, is it very simple to change the legacy bump-map on planes like the Cessna 337 to a normal map?
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Re: Bump-mapping not working in ALS

Postby Thorsten » Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:39 pm

I frankly don't know for sure, I've never worked much with normal map textures - but I suspect the answer is yes, it's not like we want to generate a heightmap, it's just the distortion of the normal. What happens if the bumpmap is just used 'as is'?
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Re: Bump-mapping not working in ALS

Postby hvengel » Sun Oct 19, 2014 11:28 pm

There are differences in the old normal map effect and the newer normal map effect from the model-combined-deferred.eff shader but for the most part these are minor. Both use the same type of normal map texture, which is the hard part, and you already have that. So it is more a matter of setting this up to use model-combined-deferred.eff and there are some differences in how things are specified in the config XML. I think you used the reflection effect from model-combined-deferred.eff in your Bonanza cockpit for the panel so this should not be too difficult for you to get this going.
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Re: Bump-mapping not working in ALS

Postby flyingfisch » Mon Oct 20, 2014 12:13 am

I will try updating these aircraft sometime soon, but for the next couple weeks I am going to be busy so no time to do it then.
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