What is wrong with this shader?

[Plague Bringer]

In game it displays the right texture, but bullets leave marks, it's solid, and it doesn't display the effects that water should when I noclip into it. Also, does deformVertexes work for Tremulous? I assume it doesn't, because you'd think that a lot more people would have egg transporting alien tubes.

Code:

textures/heatwave/lava.jpg
{
qer_editorimage textures/heatwave/lava.jpg
surfaceparm noimpact
surfaceparm nosolid
surfaceparm water
{
deformVertexes bulge <100> <100> <30>

}
}

[UniqPhoeniX]

It's 'nonsolid'. For solid surfaces if you don't want marks, use surfaceparm nomarks. Also I'm pretty sure you don't need < and >.

[Archangel]

deformVertexes works absolutely fine. Try removing the < and >s from your entry. You need to add the shader file's name to your shaderlist.txt (in your base/scripts/shaderlist.txt) i.e. you named it heatwave.shader, add 'heatwave' to the end of shaderlist.txt. You also don't need to specify file extensions on shader names. textures/heatwave/lava would be fine.

[Plague Bringer]

Now I'm back to my first problem, the brush operates properly (no collision, no marks, water) but it has that gray and white texture, implying that it's missing.

[Archangel]

Code:

map textures/heatwave/lava.jpg

after qer_editorimage.

[Plague Bringer]

In game, I meant.

textures/heatwave/lava
{
   qer_editorimage textures/heatwave/lava.jpg
   surfaceparm nomarks
   surfaceparm nonsolid
   surfaceparm water
   {
      deformVertexes bulge 100 100 30
   
   }
}

Will give me textureless brushes that have nomarks, nonsolid, and water (but don't bulge, as the texture is missing).

Whereas..

textures/heatwave/lava.jpg
{
   qer_editorimage textures/heatwave/lava.jpg
   surfaceparm nomarks
   surfaceparm nonsolid
   surfaceparm water
   {
      deformVertexes bulge 100 100 30
   
   }
}

Will give me textured brushes that don't do anything the shader tells them to.

[Archangel]

no. You add

Code:

map textures/heatwave/lava.jpg

to your shader.

Code:

textures/heatwave/lava
{
   qer_editorimage textures/heatwave/lava.jpg
   map textures/heatwave/lava.jpg
   surfaceparm nomarks
   surfaceparm nonsolid
   surfaceparm lava
   {
      deformVertexes bulge 100 100 30
   
   }
}

[Plague Bringer]

Ah! Heh. I had thought you meant directly after qer_editorimage, which would do nothing.

Thanks for the help, and sorry for being thick.

Edit; AAAAAAAAND it does nothing.

[Archangel]

Ah, my bad

Code:

textures/heatwave/lava
{
        qer_trans 0.4
        surfaceparm nonsolid
        surfaceparm trans
        surfaceparm lava
        surfaceparm nomarks
        deformVertexes wave 256 sin 0 5 6 0.5
        cull disable
        {
                map textures/heatwave/lava.jpg
                alphaGen const 0.2
                blendfunc blend
                tcMod scale 0.5 0.5
                tcMod scroll 0.5 0.5
        }
        {
                map textures/heatwave/lava.jpg
                blendfunc GL_SRC_ALPHA GL_ONE
                alphaGen const 0.8
                tcGen environment
        }
        {
                map $lightmap
                blendfunc filter
        }
}

Should be good. If it doesn't, I'm a moron. But, shaders are not my point of skill, so

[Plague Bringer]

Thanks.

I tweaked it a little to serve my purposes (those being pillars of magma, like in Hot Grounds for Nexuiz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zUcFi7VHZ0)

[Archangel]

Ah, so it worked. You're welcome

[Zero Ame]

texture is very very repetitive

[Plague Bringer]

Yeah. That's one from filterforge under "molten lava" (or something). I came across it looking for Q3 textures earlier in the day.

Anyway, I like the effect the magma flowing out of those pipes has. Someone should make some pulsing tubes carrying clone embryos, or something. I know that there's a small hose that has a bulge moving through it. It's blue. I think it's in a default map.

[Bissig]

Yeah. That's one from filterforge under "molten lava" (or something). I came across it looking for Q3 textures earlier in the day.

Anyway, I like the effect the magma flowing out of those pipes has. Someone should make some pulsing tubes carrying clone embryos, or something. I know that there's a small hose that has a bulge moving through it. It's blue. I think it's in a default map.

Nexus6?

[Plague Bringer]

I'll take a devmap run through it right now.

EDIT: I think it might be G2_B2 by Jex, but I can't be arsed to download and test right now (working on a map/textures/HUD catalogue).