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- AnD4D
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R0J0hound
Sorry to bother you, but can you think of a way to have the canvas serve as a destination in effect. I've tried adding it myself but to no effect.

Also, I can't seem to figure out how to put a background texture in the example you've produced. Each time I do, the coloured lights just appear to wash away any detail.

Hope you can help. I've been working on this mini-project for the last couple of days, only to suddenly hit this potential roadblock.

If you'd like to see the capx I've been working on, I can pm it to you?
- AnD4D
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http://www.scirra.com/forum/topic76657.html

Looks like it's Chrome.
- AnD4D
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Got it working slightly using distance, but it's still not quite the desired effect.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50465867/Construct/NormalMaps.capx
- AnD4D
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jojoe - I'm afraid I'm not making a shader. Just using the built in bump mapping.
- AnD4D
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Still not figured out to get it to work with multiple light though. Any ideas?
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- AnD4D
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Turns out it was the normal map... I was using NVidia's photoshop plugin, and it's silly. Crazy bump works wonders though.
- AnD4D
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jojoe
I attach an example, trial version I'm working on:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50465867/Construct/NormalMaps.capx

I've followed an example created by another C2 user, but it's producing an unusual glaring effect. It may be due to the normal map I've created, but I was quite happy with it. More than likely I've done something wrong with it.

In this example, I'm just trying to get 1 light source working, but eventually I'm aiming for more. I have no problem creating seamless textures, but normal maps on tiled backgrounds simply don't work. They're inverted or something, so I'll stick with individual sprites for now (less efficient, but I don't have much of a choice ATM).

Do you know how to use normal maps?
- AnD4D
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Ulisses Check your system restore points. What was recently installed?
- AnD4D
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Ashley Just Chrome, but it's back to normal after I did a system restore to before a critical windows update, and a direct x update.
- AnD4D
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Does anyone have any experience using normal maps? I'd like be able get working. Thanks.

So far I can get 1 normal to affected by 1 light. I'm used to 3d where a normal map immediately works with light sources. It would be good if you could designate other sprites as light sources in the normal map behaviour.
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This was visual at first, followed by a text box with an fps counter, followed up by the debugger.

As I said, restoring fixed this, but I'm sure it'll be a problem again once I re-update windows.
- AnD4D
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I did a system restore to an earlier time, which was before a Critical Windows 7 update. It is now back up to 60fps!!!

Very strange. I actually started to doubt my memories.