AShadow memory functions
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| Hi, does anybody know what the functions retW, retC, retI and retF do? They are included in AShadow lib by Anreyman. |
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| i think its like peek. retI returns integer, retF returns float and so on. but i am not 100% sure. |
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| Yes, that seems to be right. The syntax of retI is: retI%( int% ) Int% must be a handle to something, but i don't know what the function returns. It is used to set a texture: BBSetTexture( stage, retI( TextureBuffer( texture ) + 12 ) |
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| Hi, I'm also a user of Ashadow and I would like to ask you dudes about the next issue. When I put working together DOF + water, the water plane results cut where the DOF starts. Do you have experienced this? its really annoying and I don't know how to avoid it making both effects can work together... Thanks in advance! |
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| i didn't use the water fx. i'll do that in a few weeks - so i cannot give you any hints. sorry. |
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| DOF + water works fine on my Radeon X800 GTO. What graphics card do you use? |
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| Hi Progamer, I'm using a 6600GT... I'll put some time this afternoon the screenshots in order to show you what i'm refering to. Have you tried with an aerial view, where you can appreciate better the problem of they would exist? However, do you know what could be the problem? maybe the graphics card? something else? Thanks for your feedback, really appreciated.. |
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| >Pinete I have the same with 6600 (DOF plane cut bumped water). EDIT: You can edit Ashadow.bb In PostProcess_Render() function add a line before UpdateDOF( camera ): If RefDOF Then AStretchRect BackBuffer(), 0,0,GraphicsWidth(),GraphicsHeight(), TextureBuffer(Screen_texture), 0,0,Ref_copyW ,Ref_copyH From now all looks ok. |
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| WOW!!!!! Mikele, thank you very much!!!!! WORKS AWESOME NOW!!!! thank you dude!! you're a genius!! how could you deal with the messy code of Ashadow??!! Could you please explain me what does the line I've introduced? Thanks a lot, absolutely appreciated! thanks!! best regards! |
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| A small update -add If RefDOF Then... |
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| Thanks again! that's the kind of help because I love this forum! I wish to be a coder of your level some day... ;) Thanks! All the best, |
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| I'm not a good coder but... this work ;) |
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| Sorry - I seem to have missed something. What is Ashadow? |
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| Its a lighting engine... come on dude the search link is laughing at you. ;-) |
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| Ashadow it's a lib capable of doing effects that Blitz doesn't (DOF, Bloom, Blur) in a fast way. It's not free, I don't remember how much it costs. Look for 'ashadow' in the forums and you'll find links and some information. Regards! |
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| >John Look at http://andreyman.ucoz.ru/photo/ It's a nice library with a few effects for Blitz3D (stencil shadows - very fast but not work with my animated b3d meshes, bloom, depth of field, blur, environment bumpmaping, refractions). |
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| Hi! Mikele, do you know how to achieve the specular effect on floor or some materials of one of the pictures of your Ashadow link? (Demo4(Q4Tank) Thanks in advance! |
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| >Pinete I don't know exactly how it works but i have something for you ;). Download a demo (250 kb src+media): http://strony.aster.pl/mikele/blitz/FakeSpecularASHADOW.zip It's a small modification of Andrey's demo. |
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| Thank you very much Mikele! Really appreciated!! It's just the kind of effect I was looking for! Do you know if is it possible to obtain a "standard" bump mapping with Ashadow? I say, without reflections or similar stuff used in water or in order to make brilliant floors, just bump mapping. BTW, I would like to thank you so much your help and send to you some of the screenshots of the games I'm making. Where I could send you this files? Thanks in advance! |
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| Hi, Pinete! For "standard" bumpmaping you can add new texture (no cubemap): ReftexSTATIC = CreateTexture( 32,32,1+256) or ReftexSTATIC = LoadTexture( "data\lightBl.jpg",1) TextureBlend ReftexSTATIC,2 and change line: EntityTexture BlicPol, Reftex,0,0to EntityTexture BlicPol, ReftexSTATIC,0,0 You can send the screenshots to mikele@... |
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| hey mikele did you wrote the library? i bought it too and its just great! all thumbs up to the creator andyman or who it is |
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| No, I'm only user too :) Btw. I talked with AndreyMan (author of Ashadow library) on his forum and this is solution to avoid a problem with DOF + BUMPED WATER: CreatePixelDistortion( ) SetRefractMode(1) CreateDOF etc... and now my patch is not needed :) |
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| where can i get the demo/example? all links are broken or lead nowhere. |
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| Oh Thanks a lot Mikele, I've not read your last solution to the problem of refractive water + DOF! Thanks a lot!! All the best! |
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| sorry guys, where i can find a-shadows lib? |
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| removed.. started a new topic. sorry |
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| Greetings, Ive had ashadow for sometime now and only decided to give it another look today. When using the stencil shadows I get flicker and i rotate to some angles. By flicker i mean the shadows completely disapear then reappear. Ive tried both flip 1 and flip 0. Was wondering if anyone else had this problem and was able to fix it? Thanks. EDIT: seems it was just a camerarange issue. Nice lib this is. The speed is amazing. |
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| I got the latest last night 1.9 or 1.095 or whatever it is, but it has no samples and reading the docs is like trying to program in assembly. Are there any sample.bb's showing how to work the dof and such? |
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| The samples are the demos on the website of the product. There are at least 4 or 5, and the code is relatively simple. |
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