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Where is the shader library? About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Where is the shader library? // Archive: Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by Michael Billard // Apr 15, 2007, 10:05am Michael Billard Total Posts: 125 I'm trying to understand DX material shaders and going through tutorials. The Artist's Guide says to go open the shader library and add a BackteriaAlpha Shader. The illustration shows a shader library but for the life of me I can't find it. Where is it? I see no library with thinks like "Normal shaders" "Color Shaders" or "Alpha Shaders" This is a very frustrating program. http://www.spellflight.com/images/ShaderLibrary.jpg Post by stan // Apr 15, 2007, 11:26am stan Total Posts: 1240 :icon_Player_Materia <- this is the icon you are looking for :D after clicking it those dx shader libraries will load in library section of the stack Post by Michael Billard // Apr 15, 2007, 3:23pm Michael Billard Total Posts: 125 Thank you, that is helpful. When I look for the BacteriaAlpha shader, I find the material itself but am not sure how to apply its alpha channel function to the ThinFilm material. Any ideas? Post by Cayenne // Apr 15, 2007, 8:48pm Cayenne Total Posts: 144 Hi Michael, when you're inside a material in the LE , you should see two icons in the low far left of the LE window , one is for components and one is for shaders . If you click on these they will open up context sensitive libraries which contain the different shaders you can use to link to the material. thanks Paul Post by Michael Billard // Apr 16, 2007, 9:07am Michael Billard Total Posts: 125 I will take a look tonight at the earliest opportunity. I think I found in the manual what icon I need. If the icons aren't there, what would I need to do to make sure they show up? Thanks again. http://www.spellflight.com/images/ShaderLibrary2.JPG Post by Michael Billard // Apr 16, 2007, 6:14pm Michael Billard Total Posts: 125 I checked out the two icons and sure enough, they aren't in my lower left corner. Is there a way to make them appear? I am looking at the ThinFilm material mentioned earlier. Thanks for your help! Post by Cayenne // Apr 17, 2007, 12:32am Cayenne Total Posts: 144 Hi sometimes these do not show if a secondary LE window has focus but if you only have one LE then that is not the case and it may be there has been some corruption with the layout. If they're not showing when you create a new scene then enter the material and only have a single LE window, then you may have to first try the default layout to see if they show up. If that doesnt work then save any scene you may be working on and try a reset to default.ctx . Post by Michael Billard // Apr 17, 2007, 4:45pm Michael Billard Total Posts: 125 Eureka! I was about to send another message about what I tried when I finally realized I should try deleting my default.ctx file. That worked, and now my icons show up. Thanks for your help!

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