Open Sauce Ideas thread

@freelancer: theres a flag in the biped tag if i remember correctly that does exactly that.

Kornman, would it be possible to make the light from the sun a dynamic light? because if i remember correctly the bumpmapping in halo only works with dynamic lightning and radiosity is not dynamic.

A new shader_environment shader that can use blend maps to blend between 3 detail maps. This is used in H3 and here's an example that they showed in one of their publications.
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/1034/blendmaps.jpg

As you can see they blend between RGB values. Could you take away Alpha channels from the original and add in a place to add a blend map bitmap. From there I guess it would take reworking on how detail maps are blended with eachother. Is this possible to do?

actually, it can blend between 4 different channels.

Blend maps, take me in your arms.

oh god yes

I was thinking about something like this the other day but with vertex colors.

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Originally Posted by CtrlAltDestroy

actually, it can blend between 4 different channels.

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What does it use for the 4th detail map? White?

Probably grayscale colors.

Alpha.

so halo can do animated textures right?
So why not make the "water" part of the map that you can walk through, like foliage, and have an animated texture handle the water effects?

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Originally Posted by Heathen

so halo can do animated textures right?
So why not make the "water" part of the map that you can walk through, like foliage, and have an animated texture handle the water effects?

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Brents doing that for Quo, one water plane is jsut gonna be a really nice texture.

Bump maps on scenery?