Cool post, NIce tutorial, going to be useful to others who had questions about it.

Btw, waffles can you go on xfire or something.

Weird, I am online.

ty 4 this ^_^

hey waffles where did you get the Open Sauce ? I'm trying to found it, but i see 1 version but isn't the original as says the tutorial
Edited by NOBLE_X6 on Jan 31, 2012 at 05:11 PM

well im not waffles but here it is
http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=40091

thanks ChBgt909 I download it, OK so i patch my HEK apps.

EDIT> i patch my apps and the tag file doesn't appear
Edited by NOBLE_X6 on Jan 31, 2012 at 05:14 PM

The coefficient and exponent work together to affect the result of the phong highlighting before everything gets scaled down by the multi. As its name implies the coefficient multiplies the phong result (affecting overall brightness) while the exponent raises it to the given power (affecting contrast and thus the 'sharpness' of the highlights since higher exponent = steeper curve). Consider the coefficient like a secondary means of brightness control that only affects the phong component of the reflectivity.
Edited by teh lag on Feb 1, 2012 at 12:33 AM

I have to admit, I am not really getting the whole specular lighting section - I've added some values in but I'm not really seeing any difference...? Am I missing something? (and yes, I do have a multipurpose map set up :D)

Yup, got normals there. I can see the effect of them - just! Are you using those values in the coefficient and the.. um, other one too?

Edit
Exponent. Memory fail.
Edited by Diaboy on Feb 10, 2012 at 10:11 AM

I'm too scared to mess with opensauce..

I think lack of proper lighting and no dynamic lights and so on was the problem in my scene. Not sure I've set the multipurpose map correctly, so I'll jsut keep playing - when I get the whole texture done rather than just the suppressor it might look somewhat more impressive. Thanks for the tutorial and advice, very helpful :)

Just a quick observation - I couldn't get specular lighting to work unless I used the specular tint override section in the tag.

Hey waffles, finally I got install OS, the problem was the directory. So another error comes, every time I'm trying to run Halo CE gives "Gathering Data Exception". Any Help ?

Image links are dead :/. Would be nice to get a tutorial on how to take advantege of OS shadering in general.

Specifically I was just wondering what was done to achieve this.



The BSP in particular, like what shader type was used etc.

Ahh, yeah I figured that, but for some reason the ground looks different to me. lol

Like waffles said, there isn't really much that can be done with BSPs right now. All I did for that BSP is throw placeholder textures from Halo 3 to get it in game, the shaders literally have no detail maps or anything. Any further questions, feel free to ask me via PM, I'd be happy to assist.

Must be the lighting, or the fact that the texture is stretched, or I'm just going crazy lol. Thanks for the clarification though.

Is this done with stock tags or are there OS tags required?
Also, some images are broken.

here it is saved as .pdf, before the images went away.

http://filebeam.com/cc3604f0ecbde5a2868f74e5bf28c4a8