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Console error: Couldn't find shader

by Steve Acaster · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 06/20/2008 (12:58 pm) · 3 replies

This isn't particularly important as I haven't even started looking at shaders, just something I noticed after porting over from TGE to 1.7.1

*** Phase 2: Download Ghost Objects
Mapping string: MissionStartPhase2Ack to index: 1
[b]
ClipMapBlenderCache::initialize - Couldn't find shader 'LegacyBlender20Shader'!
ClipMapBlenderCache::initialize - Couldn't find shader 'LegacyBlender11AShader'!
ClipMapBlenderCache::initialize - Couldn't find shader 'LegacyBlender11BShader'!
[/b]
Allocating a 1024 px clipmap for a 65536px source texture.
   - 6 base clipstack entries, + 1 cap.
   - Using approximately 37.240002MB of texture memory.

I'm not sure why these are getting called. They don't get called in ~\game\scriptsAndAssets\client\scripts\shader.cs --- but AtlasBlender20Shader, AtlasBlender11AShader, AtlasBlender11BShader are.

I'm using DX9SDK (March2008) - but I haven't even looked at it. Just using it as the TGEA1.7.1 instructions say for compiling.

I'm not trying to use any of these shader things yet, and everything seems to work as expected. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas.
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Associate Dave Calabrese
Cerulean Games
#1
07/30/2008 (12:47 pm)
From a default install of TGEA 1.7.1, look in this file:

Projects\Template\game\scriptsAndAssets\client\scripts\shaders.cs

That file defines the shaders. The note for the shaders you mention reads:

// Blender cache shaders for legacy terrain.  These differ from the ones used
// for Atlas only in that they multiply lightmap intensities by two.
// (Vertex shaders are reused since there is no difference).

And the location of the .HLSL files for the shaders mentioned are at:

\Projects\Template\game\shaders\atlas

Chances are you are missing files, or your shaders.cs file could have a script error. Might be best to look into it, especially if it's the shader.cs file, as there could be a problem with something else not getting loaded properly.

-Dave Calabrese
Gaslight Studios

Associate Steve Acaster
[YorkshireRifles.com]
#2
07/30/2008 (7:12 pm)
Aha! Thanks for that Dave.

After a little look through the examples I saw that their shader.cs had a few extra lines of script than my New Project generated file. Just copied them across and the console errors have cleared up.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Steve

Associate Dave Calabrese
Cerulean Games
#3
07/31/2008 (7:38 am)
No problem, glad I could help you out!

-Dave Calabrese
Gaslight Studios