GLSL? anyeone heard of that?

[Gabbe]

I`ve looked at many textures and noone seems to take advantage of glsl in blender!

You can bake textures so, wouldn`t that be awesome  

I don`t really think many are aware of this...



Real-Time, all the time!

[wciow]

Glest is currently a million miles away from GLSL. We don't even have the most basic shader support or a graphics coder willing to help.  Personally I'm praying for basic specular and/or normal map support let alone pluggable scripts 

Anyway whilst googleing around I found this rather old but cool video http://vimeo.com/1146131

Also this guy has some helpful general Blender tutorials 

[Gabbe]

no way this is happening then... 

Is it not possible to bake the texture and save the image then insert it into glest and then you have the glsl?

[Omega]

GLSL? Low level shaders? Heh, I remember using that a long time back in some OGRE demos...

Personally, I don't think Glest needs it. What I think Glest needs for models is:
-Lighting (would be uber awesome to be able to do this)
-Improved transparency (I don't think the bug where the transparency shows right to the ground, through the model has been fixed yet...)
-Multi-part models, which some can rotate to attack and some parts wont (aka: rotating cannons. MANY games use this. An example is how a tank will have two parts, the main body which stays fixed when rotating to attack (but not to move) and the cannon part which rotates as normal to attack).
-More methods of particle effects, particularily for splashes, such as a fire-like effect, etc; Personally, I'd like to see sprite compatibility (I know some guy once modified the engine to show a 2D image above the units that rotated to face the camera, kinda sprite like... Still, sprites would be awesome).

Of course, as Wciow said, the biggest problem is lack of a graphics coder... Maybe we have been neglecting time spent on programing boards to recruit programmers?

You know what, I'm going to go to a board right now, make an account, and try and get a few people interested. Wish me luck!

[Gabbe]

Good luck omega, try for a Graphics Coder aswell then

[titi]

well most of the things omega mentioned will hopefully come for MG very soon if multiplayer/masterserver is done.
at least more light support and more particle effects and I will have a look at the transparency problem too!

[hailstone]

I'm studying Modelling and Animations techniques this semester and next semester I'm studying Real-Time Rendering techniques so hopefully I'll be able to use that knowledge sometime this year.

[Gabbe]

Titi, i got a server with a good connection, but it doesn`t yet have a lobby. Like a glest lobby were you can find glest games.

And i can`t wait for the new effects, btw i made this post at (http://forum.codecall.net/c-c/28309-graphics-game-under-development.html) a programming forum:

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Okay, im from a forum ath this site:

The Glest Forums

The history of the game is long, but i`ll make it short. Some spanish folks were making a startegy game, they got very far and made a playable decent game, then they abandoned development. Not long after some coders started to develop a more advanced version of the game, they called it GlestAdvancedEngine. The GAE mainly focused on hard coding as water travel, pet ability etc. And another coder thought that he might make another version, his version became MegaGlest, and MG became very popular among the community that only played the game, modders still prefered old GAE. Though GAE didn`t support more than 4 players. So the community got divided, then one of the community members began to see if the to could merge into MegaGAE. This went under disguission, and for a loong time it was uncertain what would happen. The MegaGlest team was "just" doing softcoding, many proposed that the MegaGlest could merge into the GAE, nothing happened and still there is diguission about that.

Not long ago some of the community (including me) Wondered if the game would have basic shader support ever, actually, i wondered if the game could take advantage of GLSL, but one of the coders making GAE said that he was praying each night for basic shader support, then another of the community, a modder, said that he could try to find some Graphics Coders to code a graphics for us, and that is what i did too!

So basically what we in the GLEST community is looking for is a graphics coder willing to dedicate some work into our project, if you find this interesting check out the link i posted up in the thread. We have many skilled coders, but still, the graphics are coming bad.

The game uses c++ for hardcoding and LUA for something else, seriously don`t ask me, im a noob within the subject. (BTW the AI needs some fix too, overall good, but i could be better)

oh! i almost forgot that some of the community uses Linux, free open source ftw!
So some cross-platform would be nice, but windows first, i think everyone on the GLEST forum has the ability to use a windows computer. And the game is Free Open Source, if anyone willing to help just visit the link thanks

[Gabbe]

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