I was wondering, where are the shaders for active camouflage? say I wanted to make a vehicle camouflaged like MC is when he walks over a AC powerup? I searched in the powerups folder, found some shaders, but not the ones I'm looking for. Is it built into MC?

Thanks

See, the thing is, that's what happened to me. It's a red texture, not partially transparent.



How would I make something look like that?
Edited by Mythril on Aug 29, 2008 at 06:07 PM

i believe its not a shader, but a bitmap thats referenced in the globals.globals. the image looks like a bunch of lines, but i think thats how it determines how the light refracts off of the geometry.

im not sure actually. but didn't the tackikoma from hugeass have that ability (and im just trying to be smooth. i know that it did)

perhaps if you ripped hugeass open with the HEK+ and did some pokling around in the Tachikoma files, you might find some insight there.

@Donut, yes, you're right, I found it. Now, to see if it'll work.

@Foxtrot, the tachikoma in hugeass hard partial invisibility, but no distortion. Thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to poke around to find out how it was made to do that.

EDIT

Hmm, I try it in a shader, but the shader turns out purple/pink/bluey-green.
Not distorted invisibility. I'll keep on looking...
Edited by Mythril on Aug 30, 2008 at 06:53 PM

EDIT 2

I found another setting in globals, which explains it I think. I don't really think this can be done to a shader, but I'll try anyway.
Edited by Mythril on Aug 30, 2008 at 06:54 PM

I don't think it's a shader, but more of an effect or something. But it would be sweet to know how to apply it to vehicles or scenery. If you find anything, post it here plz!

mm...

it's all in globals. I'm trying to find a way to do it in a shader, but I don't think it's possible... =(

I'll keep looking though.

Looking down in globals, there's a active camouflage place, with refraction, fall off and stuff like that. That would be the main distortion/transparency I think.

Pity, it would be very useful if I could get it to be applied to a object.

speakng of the tachikoma, i found something. if you are Camoed and you set up your position and camera so that you see yourself in front of the shield type ramp, you cannot see the light bridge. you just see a patch of the normal interior texture. i think it happens to be with the fact that the light bridge is a hologram texture, though. something like that. its very hologramish, and i think that for some reason they cannot be seen through the so called light bending technology.

rasterizers in globals for the cyborg