Im tryng to add normal mapping and phong shading on blood,to make it look like in Hitman Blood Money...

Decal texture
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/6/13/1171968/blood1.jpg

and Normal mapped...
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/6/13/1171968/blood1_normal.jpg

Here my edited VMT...
"VertexLitGeneric"
{
"$baseTexture" "models\materials\decals\blood1"
"$bumpmap" "models/materials\decals\blood1_normal"
"$phong" "1"

// "$phongexponent" "30"
"$phongboost" "1"
"$phongfresnelranges" "[1 3 6]"
// "$halflambert" "1"
"$phongexponenttexture" "models\materials\decals\blood1_exp"
"$phongalbedotint" "1"
}


And original VMT options
"DecalModulate"
{
"$translucent" 1
"$basetexture" "Decals/Blood1"
"$decal" 1
"$decalscale" 0.25
}






But,don't work,ther's something wrong but i dont know what...
can someone help me?

where's your Alpha channel for the normal map and your exponent map?

You will need those for phong shaders to work.

Also, don't take this wrong but I would tone down that normal map effect quite a bit to make it appear more flat..... on the ground it will look liked pooled blood but on a wall it it will like it is defying gravity

i already have this! :)

okay then it probably has to do with the fact you are not labeling it as a decal.... I don't have good answers I haven't attempted messing with the decals too much at all.

Also, don't take this wrong but I would tone down that normal map effect quite a bit to make it appear more flat..... on the ground it will look liked pooled blood but on a wall it it will like it is defying gravity

Wile,lol,you're right,its only an attempt!!
Thank you really!
:D


Anyone else know more about this? :(

Anyone else know more about this? :(

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Phong

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Phong

Uhm,interesting,but don't explain how to make a decal...

Anyone else?please!

What is actually wrong with it, screenshot?
And I have my doubts about phong and decals.

i think that my VMT are wrong!what you think?

I'm pretty sure that decals don't support either phong or normal maps (my normal map attempt failed on one). Envmaps map work for shininess, though.

Well bullet impacts use normalmaps so that is possible if that is considered a decal.

I think phong is only supported in the VertexLitGeneric shader though? Don't decals use a different shader, hence phong isn't supported.

I think phong is only supported in the VertexLitGeneric shader though? Don't decals use a different shader, hence phong isn't supported.

Yeah, I think until the engine update with Ep.2, decals and map textures can't support phong.