[Jadehawk]

Humm, I checked the launcher and there is nothing to turn on Normal maps in the feature section. I believe my launcher is out of date!

[TrashMan]

maybe your .exe too... do check.

[Jadehawk]

Here's the insignia for the Ezechiel, ready for PCS1 importing.

You don't need that green faces with 01 anymore. You can just delete them.

Thanks for that! Now I need to update my launcher.

[Jadehawk]

Launcher is 5.5c as in the current open Installer that's available. Is there an updated one?

[TrashMan]

I have 5.5a and I have normal maps as an option.

That option should be at the bottom of the Graphics features list.

EDIT - there is a 5d version AFIK, but you don't need it for normal maps.

[Droid803]

You need 3.6.10 for normal maps.
Launcher version shouldn't matter.

[Jadehawk]

Yup, your right about that. I had the 3.6.9 and just updated the launcher, the new 3.6.10's as well. Should I remove the 3.6.9 exe files from the Freespace2 folder and leave the 3.6.10?

[TrashMan]

You can, but you can also leave them.

They won't interfere with eachother, since you choose which exe to use in the launcher anyway.

[Jadehawk]

ok 10-4  Still working on getting the game launched.

[Jadehawk]

Got the 3.6.10 Beta working finally.  Went into Freespace2 and still did not see the normal map rendering. Back to checking out my settings. Will post when I get the dam thing working.

[Galemp]

You also need the shader VP... and a video card that supports them

[Jadehawk]

I got a ATI X1800XL  256mb DDR3 PCI Express Crossfire card. Will look into the Shader.vp.

[Jadehawk]

ok got the shader.vp and yes my card supports Shader Model 3.0. I even updated the ATI drivers too. I'm going NUTS trying to find out why I cant see the normals for the Ezechiel. 

[Hellstryker]

If my old x1300 could you -have- to be able to

[blowfish]

ok got the shader.vp and yes my card supports Shader Model 3.0. I even updated the ATI drivers too. I'm going NUTS trying to find out why I cant see the normals for the Ezechiel. 

Make sure you have -normal enabled in the launcher.  Also check if normals maps appear on other ships.

[TrashMan]

Maybe the shading and lighting doesn't bring out the normal map (if it's not intensive enough). Try turning the diffuse map OFF under Render Options in the F3 tech room. The normal map is pretty visible then.

[Jadehawk]

Yeah I tried that and I still cant see it. Just a smooth POF model.

[Galemp]

First let's make sure normals are working, then we'll handle the Ezechiel.

Are they working on other ships?

[Jadehawk]

Funny thing is, I can see the other models with their normal maps. So it must be something else. The fact you can see it in yours and I can't makes me think so. I placed the normal map with the diffuse map in the same MAP folder so I dunno what's going on. 

[blowfish]

Well, firstly, it's maps, not MAP.  Secondly, are you sure it is named correctly (it should be ezec01-normal.dds, though capitalization doesn't matter)?