Understanding Materials/Normal Maps

[GK_Daniel]

Hey guys!

It's me again. I'm having trouble making my normal maps show up ingame. Blender rendering shows me that the maps are okay - and even a little bit too strong. But even though after messing, reading the documentation, and creating new materials, I cant get the engine to show them ingame properly. 

Any ideas?

Here is my material code:

<?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="specTex" define="USE_SPECULAR_MAP"/>
  <required_texture name="normTex" define="USE_NORMAL_MAP"/>
  <required_texture name="aoTex" define="USE_AO"/>
  <shader effect="model"/>
  <uniform name="effectSettings" value="100.0 50.0 1.075 0.85"/>
</material>

I understood that the effect settings  follows an order as displayed by the wiki here. But as you can see, even with extreme settings, I cant get a good result, not even closer as the exagerated blender render (with normal power of 1.0). 

 

Thanks in advance.

[Stan`]

Hey,

Did you enable all the graphics options ?

If those meshes are animated the normal map won't show unless you put 

gpuskinning = "true"

in your user.cfg file.

[GK_Daniel]

Hey @stanislas69 the meshes are not animated yet. I did change the default.cfg to 

gpuskinning = true

But no change at all... Maybe it is a problem with the custom material? I copied the material from player_trans_ao_parallax_spec

 

 

[Stan`]

Can you upload the files somewhere ? I'd like to have a look.

[GK_Daniel]

Sure thing.

There you go @stanislas69

processing_plant.zip

[Stan`]

Works fine for me make sure to enable to the shader effects

 

[GK_Daniel]

Thanks. That was the issue.