question

[Master Shawn]

For my saber, which wil soon(hopefully) be done with its UVWMap stage, can I use a shader for my texture or not? If I could it would be nice, could make the saber shiny, if not, crap :(

[musashi212]

I think you'll have to do that in Photoshop. I know you can add a shader under the renderign engine in 3dstudio max. IF you want shine, try the motion blur and chrome combo. In photoshop that is.

[Master Shawn]

I was thinking of making the texture, then making a shader, and put a gleam texture(from EF) over it, id place all the stuff in the pk3, it might work, ill have to try...

[musashi212]

you make it sound so so so simple :( .... Well it probably is once you have done it ocnce or twice.

[CheshireKat]

Well, i've yet to get into shaders, but once UV'ed, skin it like metal, and you need to make the skin out of a TGA instead of a Jpeg, and do some sort of apha channel stuff (that's the part I've yet to mess with) then create a shiny shader (which also I've not done) and write a shader file to tell the shader to apply itself to the saber.