CoD4 - Custom HLSL Shaders

Some of you may know that I´m experimenting with custom hlsl shaders within cod4.

It was possible back in cod2, but not many people knew how to really use it.
Unfortunately, IW didn´t include a way for us to compile custom shaders in cod4 --- but a guy called Bear went through a bit of linker_pc - assembly and found a way to generate the correct hash to then be added to the shader_names lookup table.
Yet again .. no one really used it as his tutorial wasn´t very clear ... so here i come to the rescue

You may ask yourself what I´m talking about ... have a look:

COD4 || HLSL - Animated Skybox - Shadertoy Port - YouTube ------- COD4 || HLSL Shader - Ocean Skybox - YouTube

I wrote a in-depth tutorial that you can find over on my site if you want something special for your next custom map / mod @ http://www.bouncepatch.com/hlsl.html

http://www.bouncepatch.com/hlsl.htmlI hope it´s at least useful to some folks out there

you need to Compile it into your fastfiles. Linker will include all the files like the material, techset, techniques and the shaders ofc.
It should also be possible to replace stock skys with a mod but that's untested

Zitat von Bunny

https pls

Never noticed that my site doesn´t use ssl .. so thanks for pointing that our.
But still .. why would you need ssl on a website where you don´t input any information?

Edit: Enabled HTTPS :p

Zitat von Viruz

also glowing materials like in csgo's surf_kitsune2_go

Well, I would love to create a post effect like glow. But effects like that require a multi pass shader like the build in glow shader cod4 has. It consists of 3 individual shaders while the first 2 draw their output onto a different rendertaget that the user cannot see. That way each pass can grab the image the previous pass created to be then further modified. Pass 1 could create a really high contrast image with certain cutoffs while the second pass only blurs the image. pass 3 would then combine both and draw them to a full screen quad that gets created by the engine.

I have not found a way to to something like that yet; if even possible without modifying draw calls from within the engine.