About Shaders

[KingPin]

Hello iam new here

I have some question about Shaders...

The last 2 Weeks i start mapping and and i have some Jumps ready to jump in a smal Map, all works fine under urt after compiling but now i want to tune my textures and brushes with Shaders. all about no hurt at some floors or slick at walls ... i try some Shaders on my own after tutors but some time i have no texture and slick or some texture and no slick ^^

at first how to sort them?
....

my folders are

king_t (t only for textures)
king_ts (ts for Textures with Shader)
king_test (test only for testing some textures at map)

- so i have some Textures stone1_t
- some Shader stone1_ts_nohurt
- and some Shader stone1_ts_slick

my shader for slick i make like this:

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textures/king_ts/stone1_ts_slick
{

map textures/king_ts/stone1_ts_slick.jpg
surfaceparm slick  

}

at shaderlist i named it also stone1_ts_slick

if there something wrong? i want to get the same texture with individuel effects like slick for no walljumps or slick and no hurt for some floors and normal texture for jumpable walls. it have to be only some simple things i hope *hrhr*

[Lizart]

Hi KingPin!
nice to see you here.

1) you named the shader and gave the path exactly the same as the texture has. GTK doesnt know which of 2 options to choose so it gives no texture. It whould be different

2) surfaceparm key is the wrong place.

It should be like:

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textures/king_ts/stone1_ts_slick01
{
      surfaceparm slick
      { 
       map textures/king_ts/stone1_ts_slick.jpg
      }
}

in the shader line: stone1_ts_slick01
in the map tex line: stone1_ts_slick.jpg

more or less it goes this way:

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textures/asd/asd1  // path (name) of the shader
{ 
      qer_editorimage/<path> // this one displays the texture icon in gtk only, in white or green frame i dont remember, it sometimes simplifies work :>
      // here parameters giving physical properties to the texture / global keys / surafeparms 
      {
       map textures/<path>
        // here texture modifiers like turbulence, or blendfunc - transparency
      }
}

Do not copy any texture files to your textures/king_ts folder. Radiant doesn't need to have separate copy of a texture to give a parameter to it.
If you write a script for example: textures/king_ts/stone1_ts_slick01, it will exist only in radiant, not physically in the directory.
And will be equal to map textures/<path> + parameters (like slick,nohurt). If you need the same texture with different parameters you can use 1 texture file to make it.

For example:

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textures/king_ts/stone1_ts_ nohurt01
{
      surfaceparm nodamage
      { 
       map textures/king_ts/stone1_ts_slick.jpg
      }
}

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textures/king_ts/stone1_ts_nomarks01
{
      surfaceparm nomarks
      { 
       map textures/king_ts/stone1_ts_slick.jpg
      }
}

I'm not sure if i made it clear, it's late :>

[KingPin]

ahhhh ok i understand

so i need only 2 Folder, one for used textures in the map and one for testing new textures ... like king_map and king_test ... for Map i can use mapname so i have all textures i use for diferent maps but at first i will do king_map

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textures/king_map/stone1slick // Shadername ... so i know what texture and what effect only to show in radiant
{
      surfaceparm slick
      {
       map textures/king_map/stone1.jpg // only folder with texturename
      }
}

for now i only make new shaders with different names but same texture

Ty Liz *hrhr*


Edit .... it works!!! now i have translate all and make my first shader with tips in it and so on ... to remember after long time what to do
@ liz in new gtkradiant the program will show me the textur with shadername

[KingPin]

wuhaha now the textures and name in gtk and urt work fine but the light effects are not work so ther have to be some more surefaceparms i think ... i hope u know what i mean xD

[KingPin]

here u can see it ... what i mean shader work with slick and texture but no light effects.

[KingPin]

prob fixed