Just registered. My son and I evaluated a variety of map engines and are experimenting with Sauerbrauten because it's looks great.

I'm just wondering what the turnaround time in here typically is in case he needs some help. How active are these forums?

much thx,
-Paul

Hi everyone. Nice to see Quad has its own forums now!

Basically I'm working on an SP map, and I'm using quite a few custom textures. I'm currently adding specular and normal maps, but the weird thing is that these effects don't seem to show.

Well, they rendered once - and there was so much glare that the map was burned into my retinas for a week. I'd like to make these effects a bit more subtle, but the engine isn't applying these shaders any more. Thus progress is kind of on halt until I can see the changes.
Does anybody have any ideas as to what's going on? Pixel shaders seem to work with the default textures, so it's probably the way I've packaged it. The only thing is that it did work once. Then never again.

I've got a nvidia 9600gt gfx card, and all shader effects are enabled.
Map config and texture package files are attached.

Thanks.

I got bored and made a size 16 map, put a huge hollow tower (as high as it could go). Inside it is an escalator which spirals up around the walls eventually to the top. Each wall had 9 escalator pieces, and there were obviously 4 walls. Each escalator piece took 40 seconds from beginning to end. Based on this I calculated that it would take roughly 1,440 seconds, or 24 minutes for the escalator from beginning to end. It took quite a long time to build, even with copy/pasting.