This mod makes several adjustments to the game's shaders for increased visual quality and effects. The original author is maha_x, but this release has been tweaked by Dafama2k7.
Original Author: maha_x
Updated by: Dafama2k7
Readme File:
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Brilliant highlights NG
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Ver 1.3
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What is it?
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A modified shader for Doom 3 (and RoE) that gives high quality dynamic highlights and enhaces the 3D look of the surfaces.
- Dynamic highlights. Using the original specular mapping from the game, my shader adjusts the highlight falloff separately per pixel.
- Highlight masking. Like in the built-in shader, the specular map is also used to mask the highlights from less shiny surfaces.
- Removed plastic look & added Metallic look !!! (by DFM).
- Compatibility. Any hardware capable of the ARB 2.0 path can run this mod.
- Performance. BH mod favours math power over memory bandwidth as this is the current trend.
Note...: Not to be confused with latest superior version by Maha-X, this is the NG version of the old v0.6b, mh, anyway, soon will be the
NG of the latest, admired Maha-X permision of course. :D
Agreements...:
This mod uses amazing TheRealSceneGraphManager's NEW Chromatic Dispersion Special FX !
Thanks to Maha-X, of course.
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# Brilliant highlights ver 1.3 3.7.2007 - 22.3.2008
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# Version history
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# 1.3 # Updated the ambient light and bumpy environment a little.
# Added the TheRealSceneGraphManager Chromatic Dispersion Heat Haze shaders.
# Added Maha-X new techniques.
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# 1.2 # Added latest NG shaders techniques !!!
# Removed a bug and bettered the BH code a little.
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# 1.1 # Added latest Enhanced shaders techniques, (i can't add the
# latest NG shaders techniques to BH :( at least at the moment.)
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# 1.0 # Removed plastic look & added Metallic look !!! (by DFM).
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# 0.60 # Lost cause makes a return, also a backlight idea...
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# 0.50 # Redesigned specular lights to reflection vector model
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# 0.40 # Redesigned whole lighting, now specular is independent of diffuse
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# 0.31 # Finally a working result combining with .30 and .21 strenghts
# Also, no boosting or overshooting needed anymore
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# 0.30 # Rewamped result compositing to MUL based (no glow in the dark)
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# 0.21 # Spied the Quake4 shader and found some performance tweaks
# Few performance tweaks for my own code as well
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# 0.20 # Finalized the pow range and overshoot/boost values
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So how do I install?
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Extract the folder named glprogs to your base and d3xp folders and "Dynamic highlights NG" will be used for all the Doom 3's mods that do not use any other glprogs folder. The mod will then be automatically (and allways) enabled.
Bugs?
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Sometimes you might see yellow or green objects that are not supposed to look that way. Very rare tough. Just keep in mind, this is a beta release, it has been only tested in a number of levels.
You may use only the interaction.vfp, removing the other files that are inside glprogs folder, but the interaction.vfp file !
Warning!...:
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Remember that the glprogs folder is not a MOD folder, it's a folder to be added into base and d3xp folder or into any other folder mod, ok !!!
What else?
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For the more tweaker in heart; you can adjust the minimum and maximum power and the minimum mask within the shader. The comments describe how.
Feedback?
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Sure; mail me at maha_x@hotmail.com
Disclaimer?
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See Doom 3 eula. Also, if you want to use my mod, ask. Not that I wanted to say no, just that I know. And credit me where required.
* The included comparison pictures have bhmod enabled on the left and disabled on the right.
