i decided to break this page up into smaller chunks, mainly for ease of reading..
 
 
 

screenshot of my desk, with the stuff running

the normal map on these images is the same one as the decal map, except it's offsetted a little.
no specular component in this screenshot
prety simple planar surface btw.
screenshot

same geometry and textures as the one above, except this has a specular comp.
specular on this one
 

well finally, got some better looking geometry/levels/textures now..
totally robust, implementation works on _any_ .obj format and any amount of light sources.
the red point is where the light source is at..
and the framerate is kinda of slow IMHO (for this 1 light), seeing that i did not use VAR or any other fancy performance booster.
i'm guessing i could hit a 100 (i have a geforce1 prophet..) with enough hacking.
there's no glossmap so some stuff which shouldn't be so bright, is getting that bright..
this type of light model is _totally_ dynamic, position, color, brightness, etc, and a bump map is being applied to every surface.

exactly like doom, where each surface contains a specular, diffuse and normal map :D
some of the surfaces in doom do collapse to more passes depending on the surface shader though...
 

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don't you just love glPointSize :D
D3D really is a lacking API imho.
 

feb 22, 2000

well apparently i deciding to post this here. i need some feedback on the shadow.
not sure to put it in a friends game engine or not

what do you think?
the frame rate counter thingy in bottom was inspired by nintendo.
middle is 60 frames per sec, well not a second but still, and max is 120.