User:Cvoxalury/Sandbox

$additive

$additive is a material shader parameter available in all Source games. It specifies that the material should be rendered additively; that is, its colour values will be added to underlying pixels. This means, among other things, that the material will always brighten the world behind it. This is useful for effects like volumetric dust, light sprites, etc.

The amount of brightening depends on the brightness of the texture. A fully black texture will become invisible, which can be a useful exploit (see below).

This does work together with $color and $color2, allowing to control the strength of the additive blending, and change it with Proxies.

$additive is supported by almost every shader (todo - double check which do and don't work with it, like water or refract), and does not require the texture to have an alpha channel. It also doesn't share the numerous caveats of $translucent and $alphatest, such as being mutually exclusive with $selfillum, or other shader parameters that make use of the alpha channel, for that matter. (todo - double check which do and don't work with it, like bumpmap)

Special uses

Because $additive works by adding colour values, pixels that have 0 colour (that is, RGB 0 0 0 - black) become invisible with it. However, this does not necessarily prevent other shader paramters from working, such as $detail, $selfillum, $emissiveblend, $envmap. This trick can be quite useful for creating overlaying effects, very clear but reflective glass, or even making translucent and/or glowing cables. In a way, this also allows for having a kind of masked application.

Document the 'tile' type of func_breakable_surf

Document its hardcoded pre-requesites and differences. Won't do much good until a leak-free pack of tile crack textures is made

draft:

So it relies on a bunch of things

1) the vmt of the undamaged tile, which, is simply enough, the green tiles here. LightmappedGeneric

2) the vmt of the damaged tile, which is a ShatteredGlass, with a proxy and $detail, same exact deal as the glass material, just tile instead. This vmt is referenced in 1) as $crackmaterial

3) a bunch of hardcoded mats

"models/brokentile/tilebroken_03a";

"models/brokentile/tilebroken_03b";

"models/brokentile/tilebroken_03c";

"models/brokentile/tilebroken_03d";

"models/brokentile/tilebroken_02a";

"models/brokentile/tilebroken_02b";

"models/brokentile/tilebroken_02c";

"models/brokentile/tilebroken_02d";

"models/brokentile/tilebroken_01a";

"models/brokentile/tilebroken_01b);

"models/brokentile/tilebroken_01c";

"models/brokentile/tilebroken_01d";

These had to be copied from the 2003 leak. But they're simple small cracked tiles to form the edges; the BrokenGlass folder can be used as reference in making substitutions for them.

The 3) is the biggest obstacle but other than it, it doesn't need much.

It can even very feasibly be un-hardcoded in a mod and turned into a setting of the entity.

Sky Lists

Rework of the sky list template so it's more compact and easier to read.

Todo: All the pics in the lists currently are heavy pngs (20kb jpegs were replaced by 100+kb pngs), they have to be replaced by optimised thumbnails.

HL2

Preview	Name	Maps	Angles	Pitch	Brightness	Ambience	HDR Brightness (Scale)	HDR Ambience (Scale)	Sun Spread Angle
	sky_day01_01	background01 d1_trainstation_01 to d1_trainstation_06	0 165 0	-35	237 218 143 800	190 201 220 100	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day01_04	d1_canals_01 d1_canals_01a d1_canals_02	0 165 0	-55	248 234 205 1000	194 236 252 175	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day01_05	d1_canals_03	0 165 0	-83	243 224 158 1200	194 236 252 225	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d1_canals_05	0 104 0	-35	248 233 186 800	140 167 174 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		background02 d1_canals_06 d1_canals_07	0 104 0	-35	248 233 186 860	140 167 174 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d1_canals_08	0 104 0	-35	243 219 143 860	140 167 174 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day01_06	d1_canals_09 to d1_canals_11	0 148 0	-35	240 187 117 1000	135 172 180 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day01_07	d1_canals_12	0 108 0	-35	235 166 71 1000	135 172 180 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.5)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day01_08	d1_canals_13 d1_eli_01	0 108 0	-35	235 155 71 1000	105 142 165 120	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day01_09	d1_eli_02	0 12 0	-45	175 230 239 65	83 104 130 50	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d1_eli_02 d1_town_01 to d1_town_03	0 12 0	-45	175 230 239 50	43 45 57 5	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
Preview	Name	Maps	Angles	Pitch	Brightness	Ambience	HDR Brightness (Scale)	HDR Ambience (Scale)	Sun Spread Angle
	sky_day02_01	d1_town_05	0 225 0	-25	254 242 160 400	172 196 204 80	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day02_02	d2_coast_01	0 225 0	-20	255 244 213 700	172 196 204 50	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day02_03	d2_coast_03	0 280 0	-45	243 238 224 500	172 196 204 100	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d2_coast_04	0 290 0	-45	243 238 224 500	172 196 204 50	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day02_04	d2_coast_05	0 240 0	-45	243 238 224 400	172 196 204 50	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day02_05	background04 d2_coast_08	0 135 0	-30	255 255 249 448	172 196 204 100	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day02_06	d2_coast_09	0 270 0	-20	255 252 230 475	172 196 204 120	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day02_07	d2_coast_10	0 225 0	-15	255 252 230 500	183 204 210 140	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d2_coast_11	0 230 0	-15	255 252 230 400	175 199 205 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day02_09	d2_coast_12	0 200 0	-5	237 232 209 70	122 140 169 60	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1.3)	0
		d2_prison_01	0 200 0	-5	217 226 234 0	122 140 169 20	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	0
		d2_prison_02	0 200 0	-5	221 232 240 20	103 143 184 125	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.5)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d2_prison_03	0 200 0	-5	221 232 240 20	103 143 184 125	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d2_prison_04 to d2_prison_08	0 200 0	-5	221 232 240 20	103 143 184 125	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	0
	sky_day02_10	d2_coast_07	0 135 0	-30	255 255 249 448	172 196 204 100	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
Preview	Name	Maps	Angles	Pitch	Brightness	Ambience	HDR Brightness (Scale)	HDR Ambience (Scale)	Sun Spread Angle
	sky_day03_01	d3_c17_01	0 165 0	-35	237 218 143 800	190 201 220 100	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d3_c17_02	0 126 0	-25	245 200 150 1000	148 173 205 60	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d3_c17_03	0 150 0	-30	236 218 145 600	160 184 211 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day03_02	d3_c17_04	0 140 0	-35	236 218 145 650	160 184 211 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d3_c17_05	0 120 0	-35	236 218 145 650	160 184 211 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day03_03	d3_c17_06a	0 120 0	-40	236 218 145 700	160 184 211 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d3_c17_06b d3_c17_07	0 115 0	-35	236 218 145 700	160 184 211 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day03_04	d3_c17_08	0 53 0	-60	239 207 141 350	75 96 116 300	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d3_c17_09	0 50 0	-35	237 218 143 650	190 201 220 100	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d3_c17_10a d3_c17_10b	0 50 0	-20	238 207 142 600	190 201 220 100	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day03_05	background06	0 82 0	-12	238 200 128 450	75 96 116 250	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
		d3_c17_11	0 82 0	-12	238 200 128 450	75 96 116 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1.3)	0
		d3_c17_12	0 82 0	-8	238 200 128 450	75 96 116 150	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1.3)	0
		d3_c17_12b	0 40 0	-8	239 207 141 350	75 96 116 300	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1.3)	0
		d3_c17_13 d3_citadel_01	0 82 0	-12	238 200 128 450	75 96 116 250	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1.3)	0
	sky_day03_06	d3_citadel_05 d3_breen_01	0 280 0	-21	221 112 13 300	255 255 255 20	-1 -1 -1 -1 (.7)	-1 -1 -1 -1 (1)	0
	sky_day03_06b	N/A
	sky_wasteland02	N/A
	sky_borealis01	N/A	0 185 0	-2	245 255 168 40	120 226 255 10	N/A

---