Member ChadCapeland Posted March 7, 2012 Member Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 Is it possible for us to make our own shaders? What about textures? Ideally, we'd like to apply 3D textures (perhaps from .dds, but we'd be open to directly making the texture resources too) and use them in custom shaders. - Chad Capeland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Monkeybrain Posted April 7, 2012 Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 7, 2012 yeah it is possible, just open the shader window (in your voxelroom) and create a new from an existing shader... but for some shaders u will need a spherical texture - image with 180°+180° degree - but its easy, u can use photoshop, gimp, or u made a photo from a bubble or u did have an fisheye for ur cam, or u did render a sphere. And for others u will nee seamless textures. And dds, thats not so important, this dds file did wrote 3dCoat. U can work with PNG, TIFF and so on. But u can watch with an irfanview plugin (formats.dll) how dds textures are looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ChadCapeland Posted April 9, 2012 Author Member Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 No, I mean our own shader from scratch in HLSL. Can we create our own texture resources as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ChadCapeland Posted June 20, 2012 Author Member Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 Where do you reference texture resources then? You can't create that in the shader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member 3DArtist Posted June 21, 2012 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Textures can be referenced by adding them in the shader: sampler CustomSampler1;//corresponds to texture Shaders/CustomSampler1.dds[/CODE]So if I create a new texture that I want to use in the shader, I just need to add another line below CustomSampler1:[CODE]sampler CustomSampler2;[/CODE]Then create the dds file in "[3D-Coat folder]\Shaders\Custom\[Name of new shader]\CustomSampler2.dds"I think you can go up to 8 CustomSamplers. But I would not touch CustomSampler3, It's used for selection mask coloring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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