I can see reflections but no refractions. I'm talking about distortion of everything under the water surface (while the camera is still above the surface), something like this:

As you see, the tiles of the pool are distorted.

How to enable that effect?

I see, current refraction affects only the reflection itself, but please wait for the next engine version, I hope there you'll have additional parameter for the refraction of the under water surface.

k,ty

More questions:

Which channels do normalmaps use? It looks like standard bluish looking normal maps
(which look like this:
)
don't work correctly.
From what I can see, those coming with the engine only use the green and alpha channel, the other two channels are completely white (the resulting image is somewhat pink). However, if I let the converter tool create a normal map from a heightmap, the resulting normal map will be bluish and therefore the result when applying it will look incorrect. Why that?

Change texture to Grayscale.

Which texture? The one I want to make a normal map from? It is already gray scale.
It's the bump map of the brick texture:

This is the normal map it creates from that one:


However, it should look something like (this is the included normal map):

Why doesn't it generate that from the bump map???

please use the mesh editor for normal map generation

ah, that works
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Omg, you already added resize-ability (APP_RESIZABLE). Thanks a lot!
// Edit: and you also added refraction. Cool.

• The documentation says networking should be done by the user (using RakNet, for example).
  However there appear to be networking commands in the engine (didn't look at those tutorials yet though). What's wrong with these?
  

they show only very basic networking, not enough for a game

• How do you add your own LoD meshes in the mesh editor (instead of letting it generate them)?
  

• What are the minimun requirements for esenthel apps? Do even programs with APP_NO_FX require a "real" graphics card (sm 2.0+)?
  

Quote:•How do you add your own LoD meshes in the mesh editor (instead of letting it generate them)?

currently this is not supported through ME, but you can do this in codes

Mesh mesh;
setup mesh.NewLod()
setup mesh.NewLod()

Quote:What are the minimun requirements for esenthel apps? Do even programs with APP_NO_FX require a "real" graphics card (sm 2.0+)?

yes, sm2 is always a requirement, and it will not be changed

(12-17-2009 04:39 PM)Esenthel Wrote:  

Quote:•How do you add your own LoD meshes in the mesh editor (instead of letting it generate them)?

currently this is not supported through ME

Will you add this?

• How do you increase the shadow map size (of directional lights?)?
• What's the fastest way to draw multiple like meshes? Is GPU instancing used/supported?
  I guess
  Code:
  

  REPA(boxes)mesh.draw(boxes[i].matrix());
  is not the best method, is it?
  

Will you add this?
not in the nearest future

•How do you increase the shadow map size (of directional lights?)?
D.shdMapSize

•What's the fastest way to draw multiple like meshes? Is GPU instancing used/supported?
REP()mesh.draw()
is ok
but you can also check InstancedRenderer class