Fill Spectre v3.1

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Re: Fill Spectre v1.1

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Cheers, I'm glad you like it :D

Keep your eye out in a day or so <scratch that it's the weekend> because I have something near complete to address Nash's concern above. While I cannot remove the original sprite, I think I've improved the way it's hidden...
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Re: Fill Spectre v1.1

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There is one thing you can do. You can still use FF00FF as a key color, but leave the green channel completely empty. Then set the sprite's renderstyle to be 90% opacity, having the shader cue off of any color that is within 10% of FF00FF. (can be done if FragColor.r >= .9 && FragColor.b >= .9 && FragColor.g <= .1 - might lead to some false positives but hopefully not many)

Inside the shader, you remove the F000F0 from the sprite, and then multiply the result by 9 to restore the original image underneath of it.
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Re: Fill Spectre v1.1

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Ooh I see what you're saying. The green channel is used for the contour information so it might end up looking flat if I can't work something else out. I'll definitely give it a try :thumb:
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Re: Fill Spectre v1.1

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Well I can confirm that absolutely works, thanks Rachael! It does lose the contoured look but still succeeds at lensing the background (which I might be able to use for a bumpy contour anyway). What's really intriguing me about this revelation though is it's potential to achieve the original DOS Doom effect :ugeek:
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Re: Fill Spectre v1.1

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For some reason, I'm seeing pink blood when I shoot the spectres as if the color was not being caught by the shader.

Also, a small request, can you do a version of this for the Doom 64 spectre? Probably Nevander's Retribution mod can be used as a base.
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Re: Fill Spectre v1.1

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That's weird, I thought i disabled the line which made the spectre's blood pink before uploading. Is your tolerance setting at 0.51?
Also, a small request, can you do a version of this for the Doom 64 spectre? Probably Nevander's Retribution mod can be used as a base.
I can't believe that hasn't occurred to me! I'll be doing that next chance 8-)
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Re: Fill Spectre v1.1

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I figured it out, it was because I had the Blood type setting set to Sprites and particles. The particles have pink color, the sprites are ok.
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Re: Fill Spectre v1.1 + DooM 64 Sprites

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I'm glad it's ok...

The DooM 64 spectre's sprites are in the opening post now :)
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Re: Fill Spectre v2 + DooM 64 Sprites

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1) Setting "Tolerance" to 0 makes everything all warpy.

2) I am getting a magenta highlight around the spectres.

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Re: Fill Spectre v2 + DooM 64 Sprites

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The warpy effect is normal. Think of this effect like a "green screen" that's tuned to magenta but can be made to see all colours with a low tolerance. I call it Spectre Vision (tm) :P

I can't guarantee the outlines can be totally removed under all situations, but if you disable the settings in the added menu's "shortcuts" section that should improve things. Add them back one at a time to see what works for you. The default for Tolerance is also 0.51 for a good starting point.

In the first picture you've posted you can see the problem mentioned in the OP where when Spectres pass in front of each other they gain an opaque shape. This is because the alpha value needed by the shader changes when the sprites combine. Originally it was a bright white shape but the workaround I've used inverts that.
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Re: Fill Spectre v2 + DooM 64 Sprites

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This mod is producing some strange results for me. I tried on both 3.2.3 and the latest dev build. Same results. It's like theres a different effect applied in each of the 4 quadrants of the screen, split by the crosshair. Any ideas?
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Re: Fill Spectre v2 + DooM 64 Sprites

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That looks like you have the depth control set very low, try 1.0. It's basically a pinch/punch effect 8-)
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Re: Fill Spectre v2 + DooM 64 Sprites

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Same problem regardless of the settings I use. It does change how it looks, but it still shows the 4 different effects in the 4 quadrants of the screen
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Re: Fill Spectre v2 + DooM 64 Sprites

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That's interesting. When you type "gl_fillspectre_depth" into the console what value do you get? I'm thinking it could be a menu problem...

Is anyone else having issues?
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Re: Fill Spectre v2 + DooM 64 Sprites

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I tried that and got a value of "1". Here's a video of the problem at different settings
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