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https://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser/ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/art/materials

No. Those XML files are materials used by other xml files called actors in art/actor/* That's where we control the intensity of the effects. Most models share the same materials. My point was that by tweaking those values you could make AO stronger.

The one above is player_trans_parallax_spec <uniform name="effectSettings" value="1.0 50.0 0.0075 0.85"/> should be <uniform name="effectSettings" value="1.0 50.0 0.0075 0"/> Since there is no AO. But that doesn't seem to work. Buildings still have self shadows. This one is used by the left cc player_trans_ao_parallax_spec <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <material> <alternative material="player_trans_ao_spec.xml" quality="8"/> <define name="USE_PLAYERCOLOR" value="1"/> <define name="USE_PARALLAX" value="1"/> <required_texture name="baseTex"/> <required_texture name="normTex" define="USE_NORMAL_MAP"/> <required_texture name="specTex" define="USE_SPECULAR_MAP"/> <required_texture name="aoTex" define="USE_AO"/> <shader effect="model"/> <uniform name="effectSettings" value="1.0 50.0 0.0075 0.6"/> </material> EDIT For the record <uniform name="effectSettings" value="Normal Specular Parallax AO"/>

What is that map? Indeed disabling shadows we get It's just that our AO texture increase the emphasis. EDIT: I think I found the culprit <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <material> <alternative material="player_trans_spec.xml" quality="8"/> <define name="USE_PLAYERCOLOR" value="1"/> <define name="USE_PARALLAX" value="1"/> <required_texture name="baseTex"/> <required_texture name="specTex" define="USE_SPECULAR_MAP"/> <required_texture name="normTex" define="USE_NORMAL_MAP"/> <shader effect="model"/> <uniform name="effectSettings" value="1.0 50.0 0.0075 0.85"/> </material>

Left AO / Right NO AO Without props

Because I use blender emissive channel to bake it without interference from other stuff. This way I'm sure whatever I bake is pure AO, not stuff with reflections and whatnot. EDIT: Goodnight It's multiplied in the game. https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/MaterialSystem & https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/MaterialFormat EDIT: Just saw your above post. One thing you can try is to replace the ptol struct by a white texture https://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser/ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/art/textures/skins/structural/ptol_struct.png

Before blender 2.8 we used this Now I use a custom setup ao-as-emissive.blend

Fun fact, I'm porting it to A24 With their accord. I'll see if we can takle some of those, when the in game gui works again As for the money part Nephy has a patreon

Happens sometimes, here is a little video, and the blend ptol-cc-ao.blend importing-ao.mp4 importing-plugin.mp4

It's hard to tell. Maybe vladislav would tell you, he seemed to be interested in you uploading the patch to Phab. I never took the time to learn GLSL :/ Can you take a screenshot? I could send you a blend file with the ao applied if that helps Here is my plugin btw https://github.com/StanleySweet/blender_pyrogenesis_importer/releases/tag/1.3.6

It has an AO texture. See https://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser/ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/art/actors/structures/ptolemies/civic_centre.xml The material xml tag + “aoTex” tells you it does. If you want to see whether it does in Blender rather than in the game look whether a mesh has too UV sets (that's usually it) Just in case it could make it easier for you, I wrote a blender plugin to import actors directly it doesn't import AO maps yet but I suppose it could. Most people play without AO specular and normal maps and parallax normal maps of for performance reasons. (Using the shader quality slider in the options)

Yep the game is currently broken on those. And on linux you need to recompile with a fix

Do you have a Ryzen CPU?

Interesting fix. Thanks for looking into it. I don't particularly like it because it doesn't fit the style of other buildings with such roofs but it might help us understand the problem and avoid it in the future. Can you elaborate on what edges you changed ? I suppose I should look into improving this model to a more greek style in a future lifetime as suggested in some other thread.

For A25 I plan more realistic impact sounds depending on what is hit

I find ALT+J to work pretty good. Sure it sometimes need adjustments but it work well enough.

All models are triangulated prior to getting into the game. I believe they need to for PMD / PSA conversions. https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/PMD_File_Format https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/PSA_File_Format

I'm pinging @user1 again as he handles the lobby alone.

What OS are you on?

What if you use PrntScreen instead of F2?

@vladislavbelov can you review this?

Can you take screenshots? Sounds use soundgroups and do play a variety of sounds randomly with random pitch and random gain @Samulis worked on those sounds so he might be able to fix the problems. I think it sounds better than A23B less clickety. @wraitii @Freagarach @Angen @vladislavbelov any idea?

No good reason: It was not added.

Ya can't. If you are really determined you can do some stuff, but it's gonna take some patience.

Cause I spoke with him Well we only dropped XP this year And yeah Intel GL drivers are crap. Their GPU work much better on linux