Ok i have a bitmap that i made for a floor and when i look at it at one angle, it is fine and comes out nicely when illuminated by flashlight. When i look at it a different way, it turns pitch black. What is going on here.

Did you get tool to turn it into a normal map, by setting its format to 32-bit color, then changing its usage to height map, then ticking disable heightmap compression. Under post prossessing, change bump height to something in betwwen 0 and 1 (0 is no height and 1 is full height) Higher numbers tend to not look to good. Also near the very bottom untick compressed.

After these steps, recompile the bump through tool and it will convert it to a normal map.

When i try to click the uncompressed at the bottom, it own't let me open sapien.

I am not sure why it wont open sapien. Can you open sapien properly normally?

As long as i don't have that modified bitmap i can open it fine

Sorry I don't whats wrong with sapien, but that should be how you would set up the bumpmap.

EDIT: Wait actually what does it say when you try to open sapien? Anything in debug.txt?
Edited by Ro0ster on Jul 10, 2009 at 12:49 AM

This is what i get in debug.


07.10.09 07:41:30 guerilla pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
07.10.09 07:41:30 reference function: _write_to_error_file
07.10.09 07:41:30 reference address: 4011a4
07.10.09 07:41:30 Couldn't read map file './guerillabeta.map'


07.10.09 07:41:48 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
07.10.09 07:41:48 reference function: _write_to_error_file
07.10.09 07:41:48 reference address: 401b13
07.10.09 07:41:48 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
07.10.09 07:41:49 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
07.10.09 07:41:49 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
07.10.09 07:42:05 EAX: 0x0CC2B300
07.10.09 07:42:05 EBX: 0x00000100
07.10.09 07:42:05 ECX: 0x00000040
07.10.09 07:42:05 EDX: 0x00000100
07.10.09 07:42:05 EDI: 0x0CC2B300
07.10.09 07:42:05 ESI: 0x0CBDF760
07.10.09 07:42:05 EBP: 0x00000100
07.10.09 07:42:05 ESP: 0x0012F17C
07.10.09 07:42:05 EIP: 0x004F7739, F3 A5 8B CA ?????
07.10.09 07:42:05 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION

Check your apps. Anything that could interfere with Sapien.

If it's an SP map, you're out of luck - Only way I know is to reinstall HEK.

Try recompiling your bitmap, I get that bitmap error a lot of times with my custom AR reticle.

i compile my bumpmaps as 32 bit, and height 1, nothing else was needed to get it look great, try just doing that and nothing else

if it's the bitmap, try putting it in a diffuse slot just to check if it works
Edited by BeachParty clan on Jul 10, 2009 at 01:14 PM

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION isn't an error with bitmaps, it's with the map itself - or usually Sapien.

Try to fix that first and then give us the (new) error message.

Now i can get it to bump both ways, but when i look one way it bumps the unbumped area and when i look the other way it bumps the bumped area.