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Bump maps in TGE one more time

by Andy Hawkins · in Torque Game Engine · 10/14/2005 (7:01 pm) · 17 replies

Okay I've found that it appears to be possible to put bump mapping into TGE DTS's but only using NVidia code... is this correct?

Has someone done an update to the bump mapping stuff so it works on NVidia and ATI's?

Am I wasting my time... should I just forget about retro fitting TGE and jump into TSE?

So a wrap up - can TGE support bumps for
1. Terrain
2. DTS's
3. Interiors

... I know there are various tuts on how to do this, I want to make sure these old-ish tuts are still relevant - or buggy, obsolete etc.

I grabbed one or two tuts for each but rather than spending all day implementing these only to find they don't work so well / not cross video card compatible I'm just asking you guys for your opinions, experience etc in using these tuts - should I do or - or leave it alone?

Finally - wishful thinking - maybe 1.4 ironed all this out and bump mapping has been properly implemented into TGE????

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Torque Owner Brian Wells

10/14/2005 (7:38 pm)

Jump to TSE. No one is going to spend time implimenting a completely working Bump for TGE at this point. As far as i know people only got it working with Nvidia cards, and there were performance issues. Shaders/Normal Maps appear to be a much better solution.

-B

Torque Owner Diesel
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10/27/2005 (3:10 pm)

You could also use the Cg toolkit (less than 20 lines of code to include and to set up).

Torque Owner Stephen
GearedMind Studio

10/27/2005 (3:17 pm)

If you have a ATI video card, all the interiors (buildings) will be purple, but with a nvidia video card it works fine.

Associate Andy Hawkins
DrewFX

10/27/2005 (3:53 pm)

So I should just head on down to NVidia's and ATI web site and grab their code to compile into TGE then?

Sounds pretty easy if it's like anything like I had to do for my own engine. I'm assuming though that TGE's source follow's DirectX programming fairly closely.

Where am I looking in the TGE source to insert the code? Which files?

Torque Owner Cinder Games

10/27/2005 (3:58 pm)

I'd like to know. i'd like to implement bump mapping, or normal mapping.. but TSE has horrible performance.... least on my FX5600. 14 FPS is hardly stelar performance.

Torque Owner Stephen
GearedMind Studio

10/27/2005 (3:59 pm)

Here's a resource that you can look at, TGE w/ Bumpmapped Interiors and Detail Mapping for .dif interiors.

Associate Andy Hawkins
DrewFX

10/27/2005 (4:03 pm)

Thankyou kind sir :)