Fullscreen IR and nightvision effects...

For those of you who are wondering.... YES, you can do realtime fulscreen shader effects with TSE!

I just re-wrote a large portion of the GameTSCtrl (NOT guiTSCtrl) to support multiple rendering modes with shaders that change on the fly... and it works with ZERO framerate penalty (at least with my ATI X800, have not tested on other cards)

Here's a little taste of Infrared Mode::

I will prolly have this as a resource in late August, but I have a major project to finish first.



If you can't wait, here's generally what I did:

1) copied gamerender to a new function IN gameTSCtrl

2) make GameTSCtrl::renderWorld run the new gamerender function if in shader mode, and the regular gamerender function if in regular mode

2) in the new function, instead of the normal render, made gclientSceneGraph->renderscene render to a surface instead of the screen

3) then push the image to the screen running a shader on it's way

You can find most of what you need to do this in glowbuffer.cpp already. Glowbuffer is perfect since it shows you how to setup the ortho geometry so that the image is flat and perpendicular to the viewport.

My boss flipped when he saw the nightvision mode (you'll have to wait for that one!)