Shader Tweaking

[Karottenrambo]

The past few days I was trolling in Supcom 2 multiplayer a bit, making fun of the poor gamedesign (compared to Supcom2, FA is as thought-out as Starcraft 2...) and so on. However the units look alot better there, not only because the models and textures have an higher quality, but also the shaders are better.

So, since I know a bit about HLSL I tried to improve the FA Pixelshaders. Im not a professional so dont expect wonders( like to fix the broken selfshadowing). But imo I was at least a bit successful:

LEFT: OLD - RIGHT: NEW
UEF

uef_acu.png (829.71 KiB) Viewed 5433 times

Titan.png (778.04 KiB) Viewed 5433 times

gunship.png (819.34 KiB) Viewed 5433 times

[Karottenrambo]

The other two UEF pics:

uef_zer.png (726.87 KiB) Viewed 5432 times

uef_bc.png (837.1 KiB) Viewed 5432 times

Next post will include screenshots of Cybran.

[ozonex]

cool work! where can i find shader files in FA?

[Karottenrambo]

gamedata/effects/
the .fx files are the shaders.

Cybran

cyb_acu.png (812.27 KiB) Viewed 5424 times

Loyalist.png (609.48 KiB) Viewed 5424 times

cyb_bomber.png (1.54 MiB) Viewed 5424 times

[Karottenrambo]

cyb_des.png (832.91 KiB) Viewed 5422 times

ml.png (1.08 MiB) Viewed 5422 times

[Karottenrambo]

Aeon

aeon_acu.png (904.36 KiB) Viewed 5416 times

harby.png (923.27 KiB) Viewed 5416 times

bomber.png (754.02 KiB) Viewed 5416 times

[Karottenrambo]

aeon_cruis.png (859.42 KiB) Viewed 5416 times

GC.png (590.66 KiB) Viewed 5416 times

They are all still WIP, but imo you can see at cybran and aeon quite a change.

What do guys think? Better? Pretty much the same? Or "AAAARRGHH MY EYES"?

[ozonex]

just give me this, i will test it in game

[yoroshiku]

i think they look great, especially the aeon units.

[Prince__]

Nice work !!
I love how the aeon units look now,in the others you don't see that much.