[Help] Push/Pull effect

[edeholland]

When you use push or pull a circle appears that deforms the environment as if you were looking at it through a glass of water. Now is there a way you can use that effect in a shader, for example for glass?

[AshuraDX]

Originally Posted by edeholland

When you use push or pull a circle appears that deforms the environment as if you were looking at it through a glass of water. Now is there a way you can use that effect in a shader, for example for glass?

search through the shader files of the game you might find the shader and then you can copy the coding from the shader and paste it in your new shader (of course you have to edit it)

[Raz0r]

I'm pretty sure that's done with coding. I do recall seeing a bunch of code about the push/pull refraction effect.

[Jonny2199]

The force push effect is controlled by a picture (assets1.pk3/gfx/effects/forcepush) and a .efx file which controls the size etc (assets1.pk3/effects/force/pushblur).

The only way I can think of making a distorting piece of glass is a custom-made shader. Maybe try taking the forcepush picture from assets1.pk3 and 'applying' it to a glass texture already made, using a similar technique to making a glow shader. I'm no shader expert, but find a skin on jk3files.com with glow and see how the author did it on that to get the basic idea if you're stuck.

[heavymetalgungan]

Actually, through experimenting with the efx and gfx files I've found that assets1.pk3/gfx/effects/forcepush.tga is actually the blur around characters when they get pushed. Also assets1.pk3/effects/force/pushblur.efx is completely pointless as far as I know, it is not either the pushing effect or the being pushed effect. Sorry mate, as far as I know, there is no easy way to create the zoom effect created in-game.

[AshuraDX]

In the KOTF launcher you can disable the force push/pull effect and the grip effect
I wonder how that works ?

[edeholland]

Well, grip is simply an image in gfx/effects (black out to make invisible), but it seems the push distortion is more complex to disable.

[N-7]

Originally Posted by -=*Ráz0r*=-

I'm pretty sure that's done with coding. I do recall seeing a bunch of code about the push/pull refraction effect.

Yup, part of it is coding (cg_players.c / CG_ForcePushBlur), part of it is the refraction shader to be found in effects.shader.

And the effect can be disabled by setting cg_renderToTextureFx to 0.

[loda]

Originally Posted by edeholland

Well, grip is simply an image in gfx/effects (black out to make invisible), but it seems the push distortion is more complex to disable.

the red grip effect is done with coding also, not an image.

[heavymetalgungan]

Actually its a mix of coding and an image, the assets1.pk3/gfx/effects/forcepush.tga file is used, then coding dyes it red.