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Enhanced Player Showcase

This is a small collection of overrides for the Generic Male Character with Studded leather Armor created by an artist at Beamdog.com to showcase what is made possible by improvements opened up to the modding community in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition.

Will continue to add to this Workshop file.

This new character model takes advantage of the new material system that is available for use in NWN:EE to enable us to use the color scheme, which previously made use of PLT textures, to properly color a character model. By using this material system, we are able to use custom shaders that sample from various mask textures and a color palette in order to determine the correct coloring of a surface. The custom shaders are variants of our normal and specular mapping solution.

The material system mentioned above allows content creators to specify a material file for each mesh from inside a model file. A material file allows a user to specify, for the mesh to which it is associated, the vertex and pixel shaders to use, the textures to bind (up to fifteen of them), and any shader parameters that should be set. An example of how to specify a material file (which will have a suffix “.mtr”) from a model file is as follows:




A sample material file, showing all of the currently supported features, might look like the following: