Question?

[Hunter]

On most default textures in Halo the bump maps are always enabled without the flash light shining on them.

But when you make your own textures and put a bump map on in the shader you have to shine a light on it so you can see the bump map

How do I make the bump maps like the other Halo textures? So I don;t have to shine a light on them?

And what is the alpha for on the Halo textures? Extra detail?

[MMFSdjw]

you need to add a cube map, down at the bottom of the shader.

The alpha channel affects the brightness of the cubemap.

[Hunter]

I have done that, it just makes it shiny. It dunna make the bump map work.

[MMFSdjw]

In Halo, only dynamic light affects bump maps.
you cannot have bump maps cast shadows. bungie didn't do it either.

[Hunter]

Ok, I have made a box level to test. All I have in it is 2 spawn points.

Look:
http://gamerscreek.com/users/WMHunterTLS/pics/sdasdasdsadsdasda.JPG

I have used the clear afternoon sky.

Bumpmaps are working for one texture... but not for the ground...

[MMFSdjw]

No you are missunderstanding, that's just the defuse texture and cubmap you're seeing there. bump maps do not affect standard light, only dynamic light. that's just the way the engine works.

[FRain]

If you would like something along the lines of fake bumpmaps that show all the time, I would bake the bumpmap onto the diffuse. Hit me up on MSN if you need it.

[kid908]

that's just the the diffuse map. if u want it to be like that, u might want to look up a few texture creating tutorial to add effects(different shade of colors) to immitate that effect.