Had something weird crop up, hoping you can help.

I start a new PBR Workflow with a base colour image (a wee little PNG), but it is only loading the R channel in Shadermap, making it greyscale. The map information panel says the Tex Format is 8 Bit 4 Ch, which is correct - but it's an indexed colour image.

I've also tried manually adding it to my project as an extra texture, but it still loads as greyscale. What's curious to me is that Shadermap seems to be reading the R channel for values, so it's correctly looking at each index entry and extracting some information correctly. Just not all the information?

Is there a way to get ShaderMap to do more than read the R channel? I'm making a PBR resource pack for a rather hefty Minecraft mod, and there's approximately Too Dang Many block textures for me to be thrilled about manually inspecting each one...

Windows 10 Pro environment, ShaderMap Pro 4.3.8, PBR workflow.

Error text:

Copy File Failed

"C:\Program Files\ShaderMap 4\res\templates\" -> "C:\Users\Ejer\Documents\ShaderMap\SM4_3\Libs\Template\"

• copy_directory_contents_to_directory()

file_dialog_functions.cpp:853

I've been using Shadermap for awhile now, and find the program to be amazing speeding things up quite a bit, and it has become a highly favorite tool of mine to use.

However, after my complete system reformat and windows reinstall, i continue to have a error message with Shader map 4 Which looks like this:

https://ibb.co/TbLLDnR

It's a Screenshot uploaded to ImgBB to show the error. In short, SM 4 cannot copy the templates from the installation folder to my folder in my documents.

Things i tried:
Reinstalling multiple times
Checking if my antivirus isn't blocking or interfering
Manually places the template files in the location
Downloading an older version (which got the same error, but gotten past the template error, then gave another error)
Checking an topic from a person with a similiar issue, however, nothing seemed off and nothing has helped either.

Melvin

Also how to invert normal map in just a specific region how to do this? I need this bad for my video game i am making.

I'm just checking to see I'm correct. for UE normal I need to flip the green channel correct

My 3D software Lightwave uses. Y+ facing up X+ Z+ Far

TS uses Y+ facing down X+ Near Z+
LH uses Y+ facing up X+ Z+ Far
RH uses Y+ facing up X+ Near Z+

LH matches my coordinate system, but it generates a green normal map instead a purple normal map, so I always use TS and flip the Y and Z in my software. I've always wondered why I couldn't use LH since it's a match or use RH and flip the Z which is only flipping one coordinate vs the two that I have to flip using TS. The reason I don't use RH is I don't know what it means and have always assumed I needed to use Tangent Space maps.

I'm building my own automated scanner to scan surfaces using the multi angle light setup. I'm doing extensive tests to see what will give the best result but I'm not sure what Shadermap assumes the light positions will be. I'm used to using a reflective ball in my scans to point out the lights position exactly, which does not just give the angle between the lights but also the height position of the lights. I guess my question basically is, what is the optimal height position to have your light setup in? Or what position does Shadermap assume the lights are in?

A bit more information on optimal light positions would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Regards,
Joep Swagemakers

Bugs Fixed

• Multi page property control failed to update child controls when changed.
• Error running lua scripts using maps that add the property page control.

When switching the Type property (a Page Property type) from Base Model to Cage Projection, the properties UI are not recreated correctly. I have located the area where this problem is occurring and will post an update here soon.

Neil

Can i change the AO into a Different Shader ?

I have created 2 Template Libraries

1 LW_PBR Dielectric that uses Diffuse, Albedo, Roughness, Specular, Displacement, Normal, and AO with no Metallic

2 LW_PBR Metal that uses Diffuse, Albedo, Roughness, Metallic, Displacement, Normal, and AO with no specular

Currently the available PBR preset works with the metal setup and matches the control options but when I choose the PBR spec preset which eliminates the metal it matches my dielectric setup but it has the Gloss option instead of Specular. I know that Gloss is the inversion of Specular but I don't see a way to invert that in the Material Editor its reading Gloss but my map on the Project Grid is a Specular input which is what LightWave's BSDF node needs, it doesn't use Gloss. Is there a way to create a PBR material preset for the editor that replaces the Gloss input with Specular and uses the Specular map in my Project Grid?

I see that in the plugins/materials folder contains all the presets as xml's is the only way to get what I need create one from scratch? If so I have no idea how to do that

Features Added

• Two new options to set Main Window and External Material Visualizer UI Scaling. These options are found in Options / Settings -> Environment
• New resource system implemented to support UI Scaling graphics at various sizes.

Bugs Fixed

• Bug stopped interaction with the Material Visualizer when in an external window and on a different monitor than the main window.

• "Start LUA Script Thread" - lua_script_thread() lua_script_thread_functions.cpp:5483
  [** ERROR ** "LUA Script Error"] "sm_add_source_map_node() - Failed to create new 3D Model object. See main log for additional details." - lua_script_thread() lua_script_thread_functions.cpp:5793

I recently upgraded to the pro version and its been working fine, up till yesterday. I don't understand it? Please help!

Regards,
Gary

The beta version can be downloaded via the link below or on the main ShaderMap downloads page.

Beta version B adds 125% scaling and fixes various bugs.

https://shadermap.com/downloads/_d/ShaderMap_v4_3_7_BETA_B.exe

Please do it

Is there a way to change the size of the fonts who is too small for my last screen (QHD) ?
Maybe there is a scale UI things to do it ?

Regards
Phil

1.-Choose the textures.
2.-Select Options and Settings.
3.-Save Format MAP Blank PNG 8 RGBA.
4.-Open a Blank Project.
5.-Select a node and choose SRC: Disp / Grayscale Map.
6.-Repeat the process with the other textures.
7.-Select a node and choose MAP Blank.
8.-Select a node and with Shift + Drag drag to MAP Blank.
9.-Select the channel and activate Mix in Texture.
10.-Check if the textures are correct.
11.-Save as a template. C:\Users\name\Documents\ShaderMap\SM4_3\Libs\Template
12.-Open a new project and choose new textures.

How can I create a preset to save all the maps with the following format?

Save all maps

Albedo_________PNG RGB 8-bit
Metalness______PNG RGB 8-bit
Roughness_____PNG RGB 8-bit
Normal________PNG RGB 8-bit
Displacement___EXR RGB 32-bit
AO___________PNG RGB 8-bit
Gloss_________PNG RGB 8-bit
RMA_________PNG RGB 8-bit
RMAD________PNG RGB 8-bit

In setting Save formats does not change the output format.

Thanks.

Any advice y'all can give is much appreciated!

I work with Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition purely as an amateur. As such there are six texture maps that I may need to create - Diffuse (the input colour image), Normal, Specularity, Roughness, Height (Displacement) and (occasionally) Self Illumination as shown on this wiki page. As I need both specularity and roughness maps I created a custom template derived from the PBR template. I derived the specular map from the metallic and albedo maps. All works fine in the program except when I come to save the image files using the save all button, when three annoyances (not problems, annoyances I can work around but shouldn't really have to) -

I work with TGA images but the displacement and normal maps insist on saving as PNG files. The other map files that save when pressing the save all button all save as TGA. I have not changed anything via the settings.

Save all doesn't save the specularity map. I have to save it separately.

As I have image files that are in various places on my 3 drives, I tend to work in various folders. Annoyingly it seems that the template file has a save location baked in from its creation and save all places the maps it saves into that location instead of deriving the save location from the input colour image like programs I have previously used. Is there no way to set the save all function to use the location where the input colour image is located instead?

Thanks for any help.

TR

Features Added

• Option to select a different location for the user Documents directory. Remove to return to default. Found in the Environment page of Options and Settings.

Bugs Fixed

• Crash when unable to find user Documents folder. This can happen when the Documents folder has been moved or deleted. A prompt to select a new Documents folder will be shown at start.

I love this program and its a daily use of mine. I hope this can be resolved. Thanks for any assistance anyone might be able to provide.

Gary