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hey xot, I wanted to show you something.
http://host-a.net/JosephCh7/planar.zip *updated since edit* password is ak47

I figured out an easy way to set up planar mapping just by uv mapping from 'top' projection.
It took me a while to figure it out but I did and it looks great.
It's not perfect, something about the size that doesn't line up perfectly (even with exact dimensions) but it works.

I also threw in my shadows but they don't seem to copy from surface to surface...not sure why.
Anyway, hopefully I can figure something out.  This would be a great effect for any game.

edit.
I decided to just do an ortho render to background so everything casting a shadow will have one directly below (for now).
Also, I managed to fix the surface uv mapping so it's almost pixel perfect with my model!
Just wanted to thank you xot for making that planar example in the first place.
without it I never would have had models receive shadows.

Holy crap...I see it, I can read, but I have absolutely no idea how any of it works.  I'll have to study this for a while before I get it, but once I do, I know my shadows will be a million times better.  THANKS!!

The more I look at this the more I love it...it's just so awesome!  I seriously hope it's not as complicated as it looks...

So...with your spider models, did you have to find all of the triangle coordinates for it too?  and explode them from a string like you did this cube?
so every model I want to cast shadows on, I must find every triangle position and...somehow write it into a string?  Is there some way to...I don't know, calculate everything at game start?

I don't get how to project the texture onto the model...uv maps aren't perfect squares so it's not like you can just draw it overtop and expect it to form around it.
could you explain this further please?

wow dude, this stuff is awesome!  if only they were expandable...or at least if I could expand on them.
I thought I knew surfaces, but this is way too complicated for me.  hopefully I'll learn something from it.

I got really food speed on most of them, but always over 60 fps.
you know how crappy my computer is, so that's awesome.

my favorite one was either the environment mapping or apparition.  but everything has a really cool effect.
I wish I knew how to use them better.  Little Big Planet uses the apparition effect on point bubbles and clouds of gas...
but I don't see yours working on a regular background unless it's just a simple edit that I'm too blazed to notice right now.

anyway, great job on everything.  I'm always looking for awesome effects.
maybe you could turn this stuff into water physics?  it seems like it'd work well as long as you can get the collisions right.

alright, I don't know much about specs, but...
dell inspiron laptop
vista premium (without using the horrible vista settings)
some crappy GeForce card
1.72 ghz processor
1 gb ram

I ran about a 20/60 fps on your original room.  my highest, disabling and what not, reached about 35-38 fps.
I changed the room to 640x640 and used 2 static lights and the player's dynamic.  1 spider, a box around the room with two inside rooms and 5 pillars.
I managed about 40 fps without disabling anything.  60 after removing blur. 58-60 with blur set to 1. and 70/90 with blur set to 1. and a whopping 110/120 without any blur.

It's slow on my computer, but it's a horribly slow computer anyway.

the engine is so cool though!  too bad spiders didn't cast on the walls
other than that, I had no bugs.  no problems changing the room, except I used a wall, and not a wall block, to fill in gaps.
awesome job!

@bump mapping
just awesome.  thank you so much!  the contrast passes do wonders.
this is an awesome example and I'm really interested in figuring it out completely.
It'll be a bit more than I was hoping for, but I guess I should have known.
thanks again, and especially for spelling it out!

I just tore apart the bump map 03 you posted and pretty much rewrote it.  I actually took out a lot of stuff and kept what I needed.
I probably wrecked something, but it works fine at least...I just have two problems though.
you probably left out the distance variable (fading it based on the light position) because I'm guessing everything I need to make this is already in there, I just have to work it out on my own.  I'm pretty positive I can do this part, I just have to read through what I have and draw what's needed.

and then there's the "multiple source" problem.
I looked at your d3d dynamic shadows you posted and noticed how you worked out your multiple lights.  using i = 1, creating light with id of i, and adding i by 1, then moving on.  I get it, but I don't get how this would work for something that doesn't use id's like d3d lights.  I just took another look at your "fakelighting" after remembering it uses multiple lights...but as far as I can tell, this is nothing like the bump map example.

and now that I think of it, I'll explain what I've done to it.  I made an objBumpControl take care of all of the drawing.  in the drawing scripts, I simply put...with(parBump){draw everything} great, it kind of works!  not really though.  parBump is a parent object for objTexture objects.  I figured, it would go through all of the parBump objects, draw its primitives, draw them to the surface, draw the surface, and it'd be all good.  of course, it's not that easy.
here's the file: www.poofupload.com/newpoof/uploads/BUMPMAP.gmk

@flying saucer
oh wow, very neat how that works.  I never would have seen the string!

@d3d lighting/shadows
I just got done reading and looking at your shear files you posted.  some pretty awesome stuff!
I can't believe you're not calling D3D_start!  pretty awesome work here.  I can't wait for whatever you have to release next!

HOLY CRAP XOT!  I stumbled upon this out of nowhere.  I honestly don't remember how I got here.
and then I was drooling over the very first screenshots of your early lighting.  as I moved on, my eyes almost blew out of my skull!
I couldn't believe how amazing you're working these shadows out...especially with native gm!  I've worked so hard to create the simplest of shadows, and you're taking it completely over the next level and beyond.  this is seriously mind blowing.

I really cannot wait for you to release this.  I know this is going to change everything I know about D3D.

Since you haven't released anything yet, I was hoping you could help me understand exactly how you're doing your lights.
As I read, it seemed like you're drawing the light source, but using fog to reshape it around objects.

I wish you would release something other than the bsp tree.  sure, it's an amazing setup, but it's only a piece of it.

It also seems like this is going to be a lot more complicated than I expected it to be...unless you're having a few scripts do most of the work.
I thought I knew quite a bit about D3D, but apparently not!  Please, release something else!
because of this, I consider you one of my heroes.  this is just amazing.