Parallax Shader

#21 Thx guys to make me discover parallax mapping :)

I read a lot on the net about different technique, first I wanted to implement with self shadowing, but finally I try to implement the easier method.
It's not perfect, but it's a good start, here some shots:

#22 Has anyone been successful in applying this to a static shape? I have been attempting it, but it seems that the normal bump keeps getting mapped to the diffuse channel, no matter what I do.

#23 Update to the above...they do work with static shapes, but it is very suseptable to showing the UV seams (as well as on interiors). I was not applying the textures to the proper channels in my post above.

#24 I'm going to try looking around about adding this into the engine's built-in work with normal mapping. I think it should go together rather easy. I'll let everyone know if i get anything! :D

#25 Did this ever get put into the official TSE head?

#26 Not yet. But this other technique looks promising as well. Someone needs to do a comparison of them and see which would be a better win.

#27 Ok but this one should be put into the engine. One is done.. the other is concept.

#28 That other one isn't a concept...look here www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=36211

#29 Wow that's sweet. It requires 3.0.
I guess my point was that the community worked on this one and it should go in to next build if possible.

#30 Ok well I tried to put this into TDN but have a couple snags I need help on.

1. I screwed up the title. Can a TDN admin change it to TSE/shaders/Parallax Shader?

2. How do I make proper code quote blocks? So I can put for instance the parallaxV.hlsl
in proper quotes?

I looked all over in the various wiki / tdn help and syntax guides. It looked somewhat automatic
about putting script in quotes.

LOL I was trying to figure out how to make a new article and didn't figure out to change the URL
before it was too late. Didn't find a place to edit the title. Feel free to fix anything in there.

tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/TSE/Shaders/My_New_Article

Edit: Nevermind I got some help. It needed the "edit" process to rename and

for
code quotes.

#31 Quick question on Parallax shaders and art resources. Do these work off normal bump map images or do you need to do anythign special when generating bump maps?

#32 Create what maps (the next was cut off)?

#33 Looked through page source. They are usually regular tangent space normal maps,
but you need some extra height info, usually stored in a height map.

#34 Ahh sorry, yeah the new forum seems to be clipping part of the page. Ahh great that's what i was looking for.

#35 I sent emails to the 2 guys that wrote the shader. Missing something in the Materials.cs file I think.

Anyone that wants to finish it go for it..

#36 The shader download seems to have gone.

Could someone post them again?
-- Markus

#37 Its on TDN:
http://tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/TSE/Shaders/Parallax_Shader

Jevin <-lol

#38 Is this Shader working in MS3 for anybody? We're experiencing a memory leak on loading of the Material definition, and it basically just gets stuck and crashes out.

#39 You can get a different one here.

#40 Wow good stuff.