Max 2008 viewport shadows with normal map

solar

I don't seem to be able to get max's new viewport shadows working with materials that have an .fx shader or a normal bump material applied to them. They work just fine with standard materials. Has anyone got this working?

Rob Galanakis

Check out the new ShaderFX release from lumonix.com. Otherwise, that's correct, real-time shadows don't work unless you are using an fx shader that uses them (and only a few max shaders use it do to the specifics of how these things are often set up, though IIRC there is a sample max shader with shadow mapping).

Ben Cloward

Solar,

If you'd like to get your hands dirty with a little bit of shader coding, I can probably show you how to edit your shader so that it will support shadows. You have to add a couple of lines of code to it in various places so that shadows will work.

Otherwise, your best bet is probably to grab the new version of ShaderFX - which will allow you to create any shader you want and then just check a box to add shadows to it.

Let me know.

-Ben