If I want to use the HILO format instread of the usual RGB for normalmaps, then I have to change
glTexImage2D (GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, 512, 512, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, bump);
to
glTexImage2D (GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_HILO16_NV, 512, 512, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, bump);
right?
What else do I have to do?
Btw, is there anyone how have done per-pixel specular lightning with texture shaders or know where to find info about it?
//Regards, Ninja
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Normals are 3-valued vectors.
HILO textures contains 2-valued tuples.
Ergo, you can’t easily put a normal map inside a HILO texture.
actaully jwatte, you can, because there is a mode where it willl calculate a z value as a hemispherical projection of the x and y - giving you a unit length normal.
you must use a signed HILO format, though, and i think it only works for the dotproduct texture shader operations.
a normal is 2dimensional… it has latitude and longitude.
and yes, teh hiloformat uses 2 components for the normalmap, it calculates z = sqrt(1 - xx - yy) in the textureshader and uses it for a textureshader dotproduct. on a normalmap, all normals are facing upwards, => z always greater zero