lava shader

[swamp-cecil]

Can someone please make me a lava shader? I tried using the one from ancient remains andit didn't work (Ingar helped me, but he couldn't find out why, it didn't work either). Once I get the shader, I can (literaly) release my map.

[A Spork]

Did you try the one from thermal?

[swamp-cecil]

No. I'll try that one.

[swamp-cecil]

Doesn't seem to work, either. Which means I still need one.

[/dev/humancontroller]

i'll give you a shader. ::/dev/humancontroller grabs a lava shader from Thermal.::

instead of asking for a shader, which will most likely not work for whatever reason anyway, you should state what exactly don't you like about the shaders you've already tested.

[Tremulant]

IIRC from IRC, they don't kill things, but i got the impression, from mappers who tried to help him, that they don't on their own anyway.

[/dev/humancontroller]

IIRC from IRC, they don't kill things, but i got the impression, from mappers who tried to help him, that they don't on their own anyway.

which means someone forgot to put a trigger_hurt in some lava area.

swampy: note that shaders are graphics rendering programs, and they have no influence on the game logic whatsoever.

[UniqPhoeniX]

...
swampy: note that shaders are graphics rendering programs, and they have no influence on the game logic whatsoever.

Surfaceparms influence game logic. Slime and lava should do damage.

[Plague Bringer]

So make like a good mapper and workaround.

[swamp-cecil]

So make like a good mapper and workaround.

My map is allready done. I just need the lava and it can litteraly be released.
I tried AR lava and geothermal lava. The thing with geo lava is that I see the texture ingame, but there is absolutely no shader code visible (morphing, glowing etc). Tecnicaly it means that I somehow don't have the .scripts or I used the wrong texture/shader in the editor.

[Ingar]

swamp-cecil,

the shader from ancient_remains works fine.
I made a small box map with a lava pit.

I pasted the shader from ancient remains into lavabox.shader and edited it.

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textures/lavabox/lava
{
    q3map_globaltexture
    surfaceparm trans
    surfaceparm noimpact
    surfaceparm lava
    surfaceparm nolightmap
    q3map_surfacelight 600
    cull disable

    tesssize 128
    cull disable
    deformVertexes wave 100 sin 3 2 .1 0.1

    {
        map textures/lavabox/lava.tga
        tcMod turb 0 .2 0 .1
    }
}

(The original is textures/ancient_remains/lavahell on line 47 of ancient-remains.shader)

I added a line with lavabox to my shaderlist.txt.

I made the entire brush out of lava, no caulk or nodraw.

Compile, run, screenshot.

* (Credits to Dasprid for Ancient Remains)

[swamp-cecil]

Weird...I did everything you said -except- for the shaderlist.txt. Thats in the netradiant folder, right?

[Ingar]

Weird...I did everything you said -except- for the shaderlist.txt. Thats in the netradiant folder, right?

base/scripts/shaderlist.txt

If you don't have it, you can make one. By default it contains:

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arachnid2
atcs
karith
nexus6
niveus
transit
tremor
uncreation
common
common-trem
titan
displays
misc
plant_life
water


In the example, I added another line with lavabox.

Note that it needs to be in S:\omewhere\Tremulous\base\scripts
and not in %APPDATA%.