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Brilliant Highlights NG (1.3)
Filename: brilliant_highlights_ng_v13_q4.zip


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Dafama2K7
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03-26-2008
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Brilliant Highlights NG (1.3) - File Description  


Description:
A modified shader for Quake 4 that gives high quality dynamic highlights and enhaces the 3D look of the surfaces.

- Dynamic highlights. Using the original specular mapping from the game, my shader adjusts the highlight falloff separately per pixel.

- Highlight masking. Like in the built-in shader, the specular map is also used to mask the highlights from less shiny surfaces.

- Removed plastic look & added Metallic look !!! (by DFM).

- Compatibility. Any hardware capable of the ARB 2.0 path can run this mod.

- Performance. BH mod favours math power over memory bandwidth as this is the current trend.

Warning!...: Please remove the old BHNG version of the same mod, before installing this new version.



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Brilliant Highlights NG (1.3) - Readme  
Readme File:
====================
Brilliant highlights NG
====================
Ver 1.3

###


Agreements...:

This mod has been updated with some of the latest BH Mod features made by original developer Maha-X !
This mod uses amazing TheRealSceneGraphManager's NEW Chromatic Dispersion Special FX !


#===============================================
# Brilliant highlights ver 1.3 3.7.2007 - 26.3.2008
#===============================================
#
# Version history
# ---------------
#
# 1.3 # (Public) Added latest Maha-X shaders techniques !
# Enhanced NVidia version with better refraction.
# Enhanced ATI/Generic version with steel effect.
#
# 1.2 # (Internal) Added Chromatic Dispersion shaders techniques by TheRealSceneGraphManager !
# Removed a bug and bettered the BH code a little.
#
# 1.1 # (Public) Fixed some small bugs in the shaders.
#
# 1.0 # (Public) Removed plastic look & added Metallic look ! (Updated by DFM from now).
#
# 0.60 # Lost cause makes a return, also a backlight idea...
#
# 0.50 # Redesigned specular lights to reflection vector model
#
# 0.40 # Redesigned whole lighting, now specular is independent of diffuse
#
# 0.31 # Finally a working result combining with .30 and .21 strenghts
# Also, no boosting or overshooting needed anymore
#
# 0.30 # Rewamped result compositing to MUL based (no glow in the dark)
#
# 0.21 # Spied the Quake4 shader and found some performance tweaks
# Few performance tweaks for my own code as well
#
# 0.20 # Finalized the pow range and overshoot/boost values
#
#-----------------------------------------------

So how do I install?
--------------------

Extract the folder named glprogs to your q4base folder and "Dynamic highlights NG" will be used for all the Quake 4's mods that do not use any other glprogs folder. The mod will then be automatically (and allways) enabled.

Bugs?
-----

Sometimes you might see yellow or green objects that are not supposed to look that way. Very rare tough. Just keep in mind, this is a beta release, it has been only tested in a number of levels.

You can use only the interaction.vfp, removing the other files that are inside glprogs folder, but the interaction.vfp file !

Warning!...:
------------
Remember that the glprogs folder is not a MOD folder, it's a folder to be added into q4base folder or into any other folder mod, ok !!!

What else?
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For the more tweaker in heart; you can adjust the minimum and maximum power and the minimum mask within the shader. The comments describe how.

Feedback?
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Sure; mail me at maha_x@hotmail.com

Disclaimer?
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See Quake 4 eula. Also, if you want to use my mod, ask. Not that I wanted to say no, just that I know. And credit me where required.


* The included comparison pictures have bhmod enabled on the left and disabled on the right.


Brilliant Highlights NG (1.3) - User Comments  
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Total comments: 6 | Last comment: 03-27-2008 at 14:46

 #1 - Nice Shaders, as Always :) - 03-26-2008 at 22:23
Slayer_2
From: (Victoria)
Joined: October 26th, 2007
Posts: 154
Quake 4 now looks much improved, good work! Mind if I use this mod for my Q4R Mod?

 #2 - Of course, you can use it !!! - 03-27-2008 at 02:10
dafama2k7
From: (Salt (Girona))
Joined: September 28th, 2006
Posts: 3069
But i think that i has made some things too dark, i have made another version with is less dark ! smile

 #3 - Thanks! - 03-27-2008 at 11:47
Slayer_2
From: (Victoria)
Joined: October 26th, 2007
Posts: 154
Ok then, but I might want dark... What do you mean by dark though?

 #4 - A little less dark ! - 03-27-2008 at 12:37
dafama2k7
From: (Salt (Girona))
Joined: September 28th, 2006
Posts: 3069
Very small changes i want to say.

 #5 - Maybe is mostly my problem ! - 03-27-2008 at 13:39
dafama2k7
From: (Salt (Girona))
Joined: September 28th, 2006
Posts: 3069
Because i have a good old Philips 107E5 model of 17" RTC monitor, but the contrast, the whites are very whites and the blacks very blacks, i hope to buy a better and newer LCD with at least 19" monitor with a much better contrast, because specially on NVidia gfx card, it seems the screen display much dark that with ATI, well, this is mt subjective opinion.

 #6 - Yes I Agree! - 03-27-2008 at 14:46
Slayer_2
From: (Victoria)
Joined: October 26th, 2007
Posts: 154
My friend has an ATI and a 17" CRT and they make everything seem so dark! I have an Nvidia and a 15" LCD (15 is plenty, believe me!) and everything is very bright! Well, email me when you're done please smile Your shaders make Q4 look much better!



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