Vertex Colors for blended textures

#1 Yes, it's supported if you use Collada. You'll need to write custom materials, or add the blending features to shadergen. You could use the terrain shaders as example.

#2 awesome thanks for the pointing me in the right direction

#3 T3D supports loading vertex colors from collada models.

Quote:And if they are what is the correct method for setting it up for a static?

A TSStatic object? Just setup the vertex colors in your 3d app and export to collada.

#4 @ chris, to clarify what I am asking in the quote above is more on how to set up the custom material correctly to achieve the same result as seen in the3d app. I will play with it a bit though and see what kind of results i can get.

#5 You probably want to extend shadergen by adding a feature that does what you want with the vertex color rather than writing a custom material.

Because this way you would get automatic support for normal/spec maps shadows etc.. all that stuff that Material does for you that CustomMaterial does not ( unless you write it into your shader ).

#6 Just wondering if exists any tutorial or example for extending the shadergen features?

#7 Yep, they do:
http://gameclay.com/documentation

#8 That's a beautiful tutorial, and it's pretty important too, since creating new shaderGen features is incredibly powerful.

#9 Shadergen gets a bad rep. Some of it is deserved, but it is (essentially) an Uber-shader, which is controlled via string-concatenation, instead of #defines.

That does remind me, I need to fix the CSS on those codeblocks so it looks nice with the GameClay colors.

#10 Thank you for that link Pat. ..and for taking the time to write those docs.

#11 wow this is awsome, thanks Pat

#12 I'm resurrecting this thread in hopes that Pat will look in. @Pat: I tried your exact tutorial implementation on a material used for a light. Obviously, this material was both emissive and has glow. Unfortunately, the light did not turn red when I plugged the magic line into the material definition. I put a breakpoint on the line under the "if" statement in the ProcessedShaderMaterial::_determineFeatures() functions, and sure enough the new feature was being added.

How can I debug this further? I figured that this since the code would modify the color output of the shader as the last step, then it should just work for what I want (which is actually to be able to dynamically "dim" the geometry the renders the light), but alas, no cookie.

Help me Obi-Pat-Kenobi, you're my only hope.

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