Improved Material Editor (18 posts)

Topic tags: jmp, material, material editor
  • Profile picture of normen normen1290p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Hey monkeys!

    I improved the material editor for jMP, AdditionalRenderStates are now supported as well as flipping and repeating of textures, visually its improved as well, giving a better overview:

    Should be in the update center in some hours, and of course in alpha-4 in a few days :)

    Cheers,
    Normen

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  • Profile picture of rickard rickard70p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Good stuff!

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  • Profile picture of mifth mifth132p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    WOW!! Cool! But now I’ve got problems with custom MatDef.

    http://jmonkeyengine.org/groups/graphics/forum/topic/custom-matdef-parameters-do-not-work/

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  • Profile picture of atomix atomix72p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    It’s really a brilliant and nifty improvement for Material Editor, Normen!

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  • Profile picture of mifth mifth132p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    in Lighting material: now Shininess looks like integer(1,2,3…10…). As i know it should use float (0,1 for instance).

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  • Profile picture of normen normen1290p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    mifth said:
    in Lighting material: now Shininess looks like integer(1,2,3…10…). As i know it should use float (0,1 for instance).

    ah? whats that for?

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  • Profile picture of mifth mifth132p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

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    I mean to use Float for such variables. For instance, 0.5 is a shader without any specular. In the editor we cannot set 0.5.

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    Also, I cannot understand how to load Cubemaps. I suppose they should be loaded as images (like a diffuse map, for example).

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  • Profile picture of Empire Phoenix Empire Phoenix157p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Cube maps are special dds images, that contain all 6 sides. There are photoshop gimp ect plugins for.

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  • Profile picture of mifth mifth132p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    I know what cubemaps are. :) I cant understand how to load them in the editor… Just write a path? For example, Textures/map.dds? It would be cool to assign as an image just like DiffuseMap.

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  • Profile picture of normen normen1290p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    mifth said:
    I mean to use Float for such variables. For instance, 0.5 is a shader without any specular. In the editor we cannot set 0.5.

    Yes you can set floats like 0.5 by simply entering them with the keyboard. I cant premeditate what value increments would be good there, I could lower it to 0.1 but that would maybe be too few for other stuff.. The fact that you cant select a dds texture is because of the new texture selection panel.. maybe we have to improve that.. you can always directly edit the texture source.

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  • Profile picture of mifth mifth132p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    ah, now i get you. I figured out how to change source. Thanks!

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  • Profile picture of normen normen1290p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    mifth said:
    ah, now i get you. I figured out how to change source. Thanks!

    Np, note that the source is saved and the material reloaded with each little change in the source, you might want to disable “save immediately” when you are not just copy&pasting but extensively editing the source.

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  • Profile picture of rickard rickard70p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Hmm.
    With the new material editor, it seems all of my textures are up side down (when browsing images after having clicked “set..”), and using flip doesn’t actually seem to do anything.
    This isn’t apparent when using objects that have the materials from before the switch, since they keep an instance of the material(?).

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  • Profile picture of normen normen1290p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    The material editor only edits the j3m files and the format didn’t change, so I doubt this is due to the material editor?

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  • Profile picture of rickard rickard70p said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Double clicking a png in jmp “Projects” view, displays it correctly.
    Browsing textures in the material editor shows them up-side down. They’re also up-side down in the sceneviewer and in game.

    I know i’ve encountered textures being displayed up-side down before, but then they were ok as long as they were applied through the material editor.

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