RecklessJames

@AshuraDX Sorry for the delay, but sure! I'll share the two glow textures included in the above examples, as well as the core texture used. Note that only the rgb texture is currently a .tga file, while the others are not. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dk04EIuGc2Cdj5xvBKa60ec0t4B8rd8f/view?usp=sharing

Okay so here's an update. I took the RGB glow texture and made it into a .tga format with an alpha channel, but it still gives issues when using the shader settings you gave me. Here is what those settings look like for that: gfx/effects/sabers/black/blackrgbglow { nopicmip notc cull twosided { map gfx/effects/sabers/black/blackrgb_glow2.tga blendFunc GL_SRC_ALPHA GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA rgbGen vertex glow } }However, in this screenshot I'm holding two colors as you can see..... on the right is red RGB glow and black core, but on the left is red glow with black core (but not RGB) which is using different shader settings entirely: As you can see, I'm able to accomplish what I want if I make individual shaders for each color which has always been the case. But not when using RGB. It's really confusing... and yes, I've tried swapping the settings from the two different colors and that doesn't work either sadly. Here is the shader settings for the color on the left, just as a reference: gfx/effects/sabers/black/bredglow { nopicmip cull twosided { map gfx/effects/sabers/black/bred_glow2 blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_COLOR rgbGen vertex alphagen vertex glow } } Just for the sake of showing everything I've tried, I also went back and tried to use my previous shader settings for black core RGB: gfx/effects/sabers/black/blackrgbglow { nopicmip notc cull twosided { map gfx/effects/sabers/black/blackrgb_glow2.tga blendFunc GL_DST_ALPHA GL_ONE_MINUS_DST_COLOR rgbGen vertex alphagen vertex glow } } And this is currently the result (same issue as earlier in this thread): So that's all for now.... lol. Also, all examples featured here used the same blackcore texture and shader settings.

@RAILBACK Okay I got the time to look into this and...... I have no idea what to put as directories lol. Did you mean something like this? levelshots/mod { { map $lightmap } { map menu/art/jasp/load.jpg blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO } { map menu/art/jasp/load.jpg blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE animMap 0.5 menu/art/jasp/load00.jpg menu/art/jasp/load01.jpg menu/art/jasp/load02.jpg menu/art/jasp/load03.jpg menu/art/jasp/load04.jpg menu/art/jasp/load05.jpg } }Cause it didn't do anything.

lol I know

Oh I see, I actually didn't know that! That's pretty cool, are there any known side-effects/bugs that can result from that or is it all good?

I fully agree with this idea, practicality + speed is always a good combo. The old method has practicality..... but not the speed maaaan! Time is precious afterall, haha! If this is achieved it would save alot of time. My only question is this... just to clarify, would this idea also be useful for maps already built? Aka maps that we don't have the source file to? lol! Cause majority of the maps I download don't have botroutes and this idea would certainly be helpful! But if this is only intended during the initial creation of a map then..... uh oh spaghetti o's!!!!

@NubSmoo Fantastic work! Next time I talk to my Japanese friends I'll let them know, maybe they'll be interested in getting the game with such language support as this! :3

Oh I see! I'll try this as well and see what happens.

@AshuraDX Hmm I should try that next. Maybe I'll try converting the images to .tga so they'll have those alpha channels. Relatively easy to do... I guess I'll try that out when I get the chance and will let people know. :3

@RAILBACK oh really? interesting... cause these issues are visual ones, but no errors pop up at all on the console.

FINALLY! I got it to work! The issue was that it was ui_main.cpp that I was supposed to be editing, not cg_info at all! For specifically the loading screens to be random, I had to change this: /* ================= Menu_Cache ================= */ void Menu_Cache( void ) { uis.cursor = ui.R_RegisterShaderNoMip( "menu/new/crosshairb" ); uis.whiteShader = ui.R_RegisterShader( "white" ); uis.menuBackShader = ui.R_RegisterShaderNoMip( "menu/art/unknownmap" ); }To this: /* ================= Menu_Cache ================= */ void Menu_Cache( void ) { uis.cursor = ui.R_RegisterShaderNoMip( "menu/new/crosshairb" ); uis.whiteShader = ui.R_RegisterShader( "white" ); uis.menuBackShader = ui.R_RegisterShaderNoMip(va("menu/art/jasp/load%d", Q_irand(0, 20))); }@JaceSolarisVIII @Exmirai @Noodle Thanks for the help, regardless! :3 Plus now this can be used by others who are interested! (directory names and number of images may vary, of course)

Oh yeah I forgot to respond to this. In relation to this, I haven't tested what you had recommended yet cause I was trying to get the other stuff to work first.

@@JaceSolarisVIII Hmm, okay it almost works! It changes the level thumbnail screen, but not the loading screen before it which is what I had meant. Also it changes while it was loading. What I had in mind was that it would show something different each time during the loading screen. aka this screen:

No not yet, I was busy with school related activities.

lol sorry i was just kidding, i havent tested it yet lmao

WHAT THE F*CK IS HAPPENING TO MY COMPUTER???

Oh wow... that's odd. I even tested mine without any other mods and I didn't have any issues like that. Sorry about that. Well I'll keep at it I guess.... thanks anyways, lol

Haha yeah, pretty much! Also this:

Hey everyone! So... in the past I've created various different Lightsaber hilts, ones that focus mainly on multiple blades! Numbers ranging from 2 to 8! But I never released them before because they are technically not finished, mostly cause I'm a beginner at modeling and I'm lazy with texturing lol! Despite the ugly/lazy looking hilts, the main thing I cared about was the concept of multi-bladed Lightsabers... especially because I always found it odd that almost no mods exist that fully utilize the built-in ability to have up to 8 blades for a single hilt! Only ones I've ever seen have been "x" shaped sabers here and there, and then of course there's those 4 Lightsaber hilts that go with that one General Grievous mod with 4 arms (you know the one I'm sure, lol). Sure there's also a decent amount of two headed hilts but other than that, not much else..... until NOW!!! For this first Lightsaber, I actually lied lol... because this one I did upload! (but this is the only one I released so far) I guess I'll start with showing that first! The Vinesaber: https://jkhub.org/files/file/3151-the-vinesaber-vinesauce/ That was just a random idea I had one day, and relating to the Vinesauce Twitch stream! Starting off with two blade heads is pretty standard so far, right? But now... I shall reveal a never before seen hilt! Behold!! [WIP] Hydra Lightsaber: Magnificent isn't it? Yet utterly stupid, lol! But that's precisely why it's so fun right? I'll show off more of my creations later but this shall do for now heh, and one day I'll also get around to uploading these once they have proper looking hilts! Updates: Here's another one I made once... something a bit more stylish! [WIP] Handfan Lightsaber:

Wow, nice work! I'd love to have some of my favorite anime characters playable in JK3, sadly the ones I like don't have any source models to begin with lol!

Ah, just the .exe? Sure I'll do that... lol, but I might also need to include other files too tbh (like .dlls) along with the shaders. As I mentioned earlier, the source code I'm working on uses ASL's SFX Lightsabers... and specifically a version of JA: Enhanced by Redsaurus. For the black core to be enabled, it uses a special command "sabercrystal 1 blackrgb" to activate it, and then "sabercolor 1 a" to give it a red RGB color (but any will do). The fact that it uses a special SFX setting is most likely why I'm having trouble, haha. But if you're fine with all that, I'll PM a zip in a short moment. Meanwhile, I'll also take a look at that program you mentioned! Thanks for the info on that btw

I appreciate the help, but unfortunately it did not work...

Ah I see! That's funny you said that cause coincidentally I joined the Discord only a few hours ago haha. That's good to know, I'll keep note of that from now on.

Yeah unfortunately I'm still relatively new when it comes to shaders. Normally I try to use this website to help me in the past but no luck so far regarding this one. At this point I've now been reduced to throwing random shader settings at it and seeing what happens, lol.... I wish there was a program or something that lets you preview exactly what certain shader settings do, instead of me having to load up the game and exit over and over which is what I've been doing so far.