Material shader

#1 http://www.garagegames.com/community/resources/authorID/154909

#2 Alfio,
That's a very nice tutorial, I've gone thru that one before. So I just tried it again just as it's written and got the same results.
Gideon's head has the right textures but it also acts like it's using a cubemap for reflection. Panning the cam scrolls a black image of the environment across his head. It also generates errors -can't load the Norm and Spec maps.
Any ideas what might be wrong?

#3 Check the alpha value for the output in the pixel shader
Check on the console if the shader generate errors
Check if the forwardlit is enabled for the custommaterial

#4 As I said above, it generates errors- cannot load the Normal and Specular maps. Forwardlit is enabled in the CustomMaterial but I don't know how to check the alpha value. Please explain how to do it.
Thanks

#5 For the textures issue, set the entire path of the file. For example:

sampler["DiffSampler"] = "art/shapes/others/suit_05";

For the alpha u must set to 1 the .a value of the float4 output:

// MERGE ALL ON THE FINAL RESULT  
   float4 OutColor = 0;  
   
   .... 

   OutColor.a = 1.0f;

   return hdrEncode(OutColor);

#6 Got it. I thought the NRM and SPEC suffixes on the filenames were required.
Changed from
head_d_NRM
head_d_SPEC
to
head_n
head_s

Thanks Alfio