Please +rep for this, took lots of work to do.

(rgb=red green blue, bgr=blue green red)

STEP 1. Open a shader file, read what each line does from my tutorial below, and edit numbers to suit your liking. then load the shader (/lws shadername.inc) and see what it looks like =p

background_color 1.10 1.00 1.00
~ If you make this dark it will darken whole landscape, if it's light it will lighten landscape. (rgb) it seems to determine fog colour too.

mirror_color 0.50 0.15 0.15
~ Reflections colour (rgb, except the colours are sometimes modified by

floor_color 0 1 0
~ Floor colour. (rgb)

sunshine_color 2 1.2 1.2
~ Light colour. (rgb)

ambient_color 0.4 0.4 0.4
~ Colour of the things that aren't getting any light. (dark areas =p) (rgb)

fog_distance 20
~ How far away the fog is (most of the time it's on horizon)

sharp_shadow 1
~ If you can see the tori's shadow. (if your shader is slow consider disabling this)


sky_on 1
~ If a sky hemisphere is drawn or not.

ambient_light_dir 0 0 1
~ (ty to pirate for figuring this function out) It seems to set how dark/light the shadows are.

sun_light_dir -23.5 -32.5 5
~ Where the sun is. (xyz axis)

sunbeam_color 0 0 1
~ The colours you find around the sun. (bgr)

sun_color 0 1 3
~ Colour of sun (bgr)

sky_color 0 0 1
~ Colour of sky (bgr)

polar_light_color -0.30 -0.20 -0.40
~ Polar lights look smexy, this is the colour of them. (brg)

polar_light_dir -0.69 0.69 0.21
~ This is the positon of the polar light. (xyz axis)

sky_blend_power 10.00
~ Play around with this, it seems to be how smoothly the different sky colours (the sun, normal colour and polar colour) mix togethor.

STEP 2. enjoy your shader and send me a copy! I want to see your shaders! (Don't send to me if you don't want your shader in a video, as if it's good I WILL use it)

Lol nice tutorial mate, seems logical. My graphics card is the computer equivalent of a piece of shit .. so my shaders don't work

Nice work mate, you deserve + rep for this
Here you go! *+ rep*

Come on guys, + rep Jam

nice tutorial jam +rep for you

+ karma

Wow, now I might actually try and make a shader now that I know what all this stuff does. +rep

very nice tutorial man ! +rep !

Jam, i forgot to mention, shard shadow also makes the sun look pretty.

If sharp shadow is off the sun will be pixelated. If it is on, it will be a perfect cirlce and shaded well.

kbai.

I wish i could give u more reps. oh well. PIE IS AWSOME!

Jam use mine in your video!

the one that hyperviper used in his screenshot.

very smexy. BTW, I'm working on a shader now, I'm messing around with the ambient light. I'll let you know wha ig et out of it...

THINK I GOT IT. It might reduce the ammount of sunlight put out! Look at the screenies and compare. It's very subtle, but there is a diffrence.

in the original blackholesun.inc shader it looks like this...


see how you can easily see where ukes pec joints are?

well now take a look at this one..



A-HA!

It to me seems that

the lower the number, the more prominent the shadow.

ambient_light_dir 0.71 0.00 0.71

^ blackhole

ambient_light_dir 0.00

^edited version of blackhole with ambient_light_dir changed to 0



If you doubt me, look VERY, VERY, VERY closely. The pecs are definately diffrent shades.

woot!

:P


once again....(next post.)

Sorry for souble post, it wouldn't fit. Also, links would be a hassle...

I think they would at least.



^NORMAL (blackholesun)



MY EDIT^(ambient on 0)