Shaders?

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Nov 25 2007, 7:41 am
Is there any hope that some form of shader system will be implemented? It'd make sense as an 'offloading graphics to the client' thing, and make stuff like cool night-vision and water effects possible without any server lag.
Nov 26 2007, 3:17 pm
You mean client-side pallete manipulation? That would rock.
Nov 26 2007, 8:23 pm
In response to Xooxer
Yeh - doing a similar operation to each pixel of any object applied with a certain 'shader'. I say shaders because I assume that there's some way BYOND could use something already existing such as Cg.
Nov 26 2007, 10:12 pm
In response to Hazman
ew...

i doubt tom will ever go that far

they love cross compatibility anyways
Nov 26 2007, 11:48 pm
In response to FIREking
Are you joking? There's just no way to run BYOND on anything other than windows, point-blank. You don't even get Dream Maker. Just the terminal compiler.
Nov 28 2007, 12:55 pm
Try MapColors()?
Nov 28 2007, 1:41 pm
In response to Koil
I think MapColors() would cause a lot of lag when a lot of procs are running and when there are a lot of players.
Nov 28 2007, 8:29 pm
In response to Kakashi24142
Exactly. Plus, I want to apply different types of shader to different clients, such as a NV shader or Infra Red shader - which can't be non-laggily done with MapColors().