Solved Glow Shader not working?

[Botdra]

I'm trying to get a glow shader working on one of my skins. I made the normal textures as well as a "_glow" texture where everything is black except what I want to glow. I've made a shader file that looks like this:

 

models/players/BOTDRAmando

{

{

map models/players/BOTDRAmando/jangohelm

blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ZERO

rgbGen lightingDiffuse

}

{

map models/players/BOTDRAmando/jangohelm_glow

blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE

rgbGen identity

detail

glow

}

}

 

I put that into a PK3, with the textures being in models/player/BOTDRAmando and the shader being in shaders/BOTDRAmando.

 

Thoughts?

[Link]

Is the shader file in a folder called shaders/BOTDRAmando/ or is it shaders/BOTDRAmando.shader ? I believe all shader files need to be in the root of /shaders/

[Botdra]

PK3 just has shader/BOTDRAmando.shader

[Link]

I'll take a look at my skin when I get home, I've used glow myself in a few places.

[Botdra]

Thanks man, I appreciate it.

[MUG]

PK3 just has shader/BOTDRAmando.shader

should be shaders/BOTDRAmando.shader or was that just a typeo?

 

Anyways, I don't know exactly how it works, but this is a working mando helmet glow shader on my model, so it might be of use:

models/players/mug_custom/Helmet
{ 
{
map models/players/mug_custom/Helmet
rgbGen lightingDiffuse
}
{
map GFX/Effects/skirata
blendfunc add
rgbGen lightingDiffuse
tcGen environment 
}
{
map GFX/Effects/visionn_glow
blendFunc GL_SRC_ALPHA GL_SRC_ALPHA
tcMod scroll 3 0.5
}
{
map models/players/mug_custom/Helmet
blendfunc blend
rgbGen lightingDiffuse
}
{
map GFX/Effects/skirata
blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_SRC_COLOR
tcGen environment
}
{
map models/players/mug_custom/Helmet_glow
blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE
glow
rgbGen identity
}
}

[Botdra]

That was just a typo in my post, sorry.

 

I tried that shader and changed the file paths accordingly, but no luck. ):

[Link]

Here is how my skin uses glow:

 

 

{

map models/players/jeditrainer/trainer_parts_KJC1_glow

blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE

glow

}

 

 

Perhaps you have another old shader file that is overwriting your new one?

Edited June 19, 2012 by SiLink

[Inyri]

Been too long since I've worked with shaders for me to figure this out just from text. Send me the file and I'll look it over, if you want.

[Botdra]

PM sent, thanks. I've tried that shader and a few others and I think I know why THIS ONE didn't work but I've tried several others and no luck.

[Inyri]

Try what I suggested in PM and then report to everyone how it works.

[Botdra]

Worked great, thanks so much!

[Link]

How'd you end up fixing it? Was it Inyri's magic touch?

[Botdra]

There were a couple unnecessary lines I forgot to cut out of MUG's shader. Though, @@Inyri, I am having another problem... I did a copy of the same skin on the base Boba model. I used the same shader and changed the file paths accordingly, nothing. I quadruple checked all the spellings of the filepaths and made sure my original texture files were properly named as well, no dice. Ideas?

[Link]

Might be a silly question, but you did create actual new textures for the shader right? e.g. bobafett_torso_glow.jpg ?

[Botdra]

I did yes. I simply reconstructed the .pk3 and that seems to have fix it magically. =/ Oh well, it works now, yay.

[Botdra]

Relevant xkcd.

 

 

My EXACT reaction when I got Velvet Assassin on Steam and it ran too fast to be playable. ):