Vulkan support

[Vincent]

yes I was thinking about normal on terrain, I added them when implementing dynamic lighting. When Vulkan branch get merged I can start to import dynamic lighting related code again.

BTW there should be some appveyor generated installer for the vulkan branch soon.

[Vincent]

As for the terrain, yeah, I think we could generate normals at load time and place all map's tris in one smooth group (no sharp edges). When I will get a test build whith these improvements, I can start to work on terrain normal maps.
When I was creating current diffuse textures for terrain, I did some experiments in editor with normal maps, looked awesome and was easy for me to edit them in a 2d software.

Do you have a normal map (in tangent space) for the terrain of the main map of campaign alpha ? Something crude, I need a map to check that everything works correctly.

[MaNGusT]

Do you have a normal map (in tangent space) for the terrain of the main map of campaign alpha ? Something crude, I need a map to check that everything works correctly.

Hmm. I could make one, but I need to know directions of +-xyz(rgb). I could make a texture with a classic directions, btw.
I think 1-2 textures will be enough for your tests.

[MaNGusT]

The 1st one. Just for your tests, not final.
Sorry, it's not that fast to create NM from diffuse maps that will look good enough.
I will make and upload two more textures later.

It can be normalized to reduce the strangeness of a bump effect.

[MaNGusT]

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[moltengear]

it seems to me that it would be nice to create a 4th version of the pie format.
It would be nice if there was a numeric identifier, not just the name of the texture.
Does the texture need a full range of transparency? + normal vectors.

[Vincent]

I'm a bit busy atm so I didn't make any progress but I'm still interested in the feature