Brilliant Highlights

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A modified shader for Prey that gives high quality dynamic highlights and enhances 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 favors math power over memory bandwidth as this is the current trend.

Warning!...: Please remove the old BHNG version of the same mod, before installing this new version

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Brilliant highlights NG
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Ver 1.3

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Agreements...:

This mod has been updated with some of the latest BH Mod features made by original developer Maha-X !
This mod uses amazing TheRealSceneGraphManager's NEW Chromatic Dispersion Special FX !


#===============================================
# Brilliant highlights ver 1.3			3.7.2007 - 26.3.2008
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# Version history
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# 1.3  # (Public) Added latest Maha-X shaders techniques !
# Enhanced NVidia version with better refraction.
# Enhanced ATI/Generic version with steel effect.
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# 1.2  # (Internal) Added Chromatic Dispersion shaders techniques by TheRealSceneGraphManager !
# Removed a bug and bettered the BH code a little.
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# 1.1  # (Public) Fixed some small bugs in the shaders.
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# 1.0  # (Public) Removed plastic look & added Metallic look ! (Updated by DFM from now).
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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 Prey 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 q4base folder and &quot;Dynamic highlights NG&quot; will be used for all the Prey'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 can 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 q4base 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 [email protected]

Disclaimer?
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See Prey 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.

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