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Spent a few days making custom effects for each and every material. My goodness.

It's kind of fun to try to design with effects in mind. I've got a build-your-own-bikini system, some shininess morphs, a couple of decals that only show up in specular. Instead of building a spherical eye, I built a spherical lens over the eye, with add blend sphere and specular. The eyes change color depending on the angle you look at them. A lot of it's probably too subtle, designed for close in work. It's not like I'm ever done anyways, I can tune later.

Figured out add and multiplicative blend without reading the screen, that's nice. Not really using any texture images, just building it all procedurally in the shader (well, other than the text). I was going to try to tune my WYSIWYG to make it better-- because I really did get a lot of use out of it-- but now I realize there's no point. If I'm going to build effects per-model like this, I can just pop a new vertex shader onto there and bake all the images to texture. Almost everything is using the same vertex shader. (That reminds me, I want to try eye/camera tracking in the shader. That would be so creepy cool if you loaded a model into PMXE and it kept looking at you....)

Is the hair too orange?

Edit: The orange was from a bug in how I handled gamma correction. But I liked it. So I created a hair gamma morph. Between it and a color morph that I didn't bother to constrain to reasonable values, you can make some pretty whacked out hair.

Description
Spent a few days making custom effects for each and every material. My goodness.

It's kind of fun to try to design with effects in mind. I've got a build-your-own-bikini system, some shininess morphs, a couple of decals that only show up in specular. Instead of building a spherical eye, I built a spherical lens over the eye, with add blend sphere and specular. The eyes change color depending on the angle you look at them. A lot of it's probably too subtle, designed for close in work. It's not like I'm ever done anyways, I can tune later.

Figured out add and multiplicative blend without reading the screen, that's nice. Not really using any texture images, just building it all procedurally in the shader (well, other than the text). I was going to try to tune my WYSIWYG to make it better-- because I really did get a lot of use out of it-- but now I realize there's no point. If I'm going to build effects per-model like this, I can just pop a new vertex shader onto there and bake all the images to texture. Almost everything is using the same vertex shader. (That reminds me, I want to try eye/camera tracking in the shader. That would be so creepy cool if you loaded a model into PMXE and it kept looking at you....)

Is the hair too orange?

Edit: The orange was from a bug in how I handled gamma correction. But I liked it. So I created a hair gamma morph. Between it and a color morph that I didn't bother to constrain to reasonable values, you can make some pretty whacked out hair.