Vera Visions Material Manual

Revision #14

modified by Marco 'eukara' Hladik

Original version by Paul Jaquays & Brian Hook

(with additional material by John Carmack, Christian Antkow, Kevin Cloud, & Adrian Carmack)

Table of Contents

1 Preface: Making Your Own Materials
2 Introduction

2.1 What is a Material?

2.2 Material Name & File Conventions

2.3 Material Types

2.4 Key Concepts

3 General Material Keywords

3.1 diffusemap <texturepath/texturename>

3.2 normalmap <texturepath/texturename>

3.3 specularmap <texturepath/texturename>

3.4 skyParms <farbox> <cloudheight> <nearbox>

3.5 cull <side>

3.6 fogparms <red value> <green value> <bluevalue> <distance to Opaque>

3.9 polygonOffset <value>

3.11 sort <value>

4 VMAP Specific Material Keywords

4.1 vmap_tessSize <amount>

4.2 vmap_backshader <shadername>

4.3 vmap_globaltexture

4.4 vmap_sun <red> <green> <blue> <intensity> <degrees> <elevation> <deviance> <samples>

4.5 vmap_surfaceLight <light value>

4.6 vmap_lightimage <texturepath/texturename>

4.7 vmap_lightsubdivide <value>

4.8 surfaceparm <parm>

5 Editor specific shader instructions

5.1 qer_editorimage <texturepath/texturename>

5.2 qer_nocarve

5.3 qer_trans <value>

6 Stage Specific Keywords

6.1 Shader specification

6.2 Texture map specification

6.3 Blend functions

6.4 depthFunc <func>