Horde3D

Firstly excellent work in Beta3!

Just looking through the shaders and noticed theirs now "_F02_NormalMapping". I assume this will only render a normal map as oppose to a normal and height as used for Parallax?

If I use the following for my material definition my model appears very dark on screen when saving the DDS using 3dc Normal Map export.



Just tried Parallax mapping, using DDS, DXT1 1bit Alpha (with mipmap), and their seems to be a slight bizarre error. Though its being rendered, the texture is offset by about 10 pixels (diffuse, normal & height) - appears fine on F01, F02.

Any suggestions?

Best Regards,

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Best disregard this post, DXT5 seems to be the best compromise atleast for normal & parallax mapping.

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Let's bring 'em out! Any old iron! Any old iron!
A door opens and a homewife brings out a rather sophisticated-looking ground-to-air missile system, and dumps it on the cart.
Thank you.

Normal map compression is a topic of its own. Here is some good info:
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/real-time-normal-map-dxt-compression.html