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Enhanced Hall of Justice

This download is an area to show off new engine features available to community content creators.

This is a small collection of overrides for the Hall of Justice created by an environmental artist at Beamdog.com to showcase what is made possible by improvements opened up to the modding community in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition.

• Illustrates new Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition graphical features:
  
  • Pixel Shaders
    
  • Full Screen Filters
    
  • Improved Lighting with per-pixel Normal and Specular maps
  
  
• Gives modders examples of what upgrades and features they can add to their worlds
  
• Shows a glimpse of the future of Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition.
  
• Pick it apart to create your own content!
  
• This is a stable version of an enhanced feature we are working towards.

Subscribe and find your way to the Hall of Justice to explore new possibilities for tileset creation. This is an in-development area that the team has been using to experiment with new rendering functionality.

When you enter the the Hall of Justice, equip your torch and see how the area looks with dynamic light.

The new tiles take advantage of a new normal mapped and specular mapped render path that will be available for new NWN content. This functionality calculates dynamic lighting per-pixel, rather than per-vertex, and uses normal mapping to modulate the effect of each light. In addition to dynamic lighting, we use the normal map in conjunction with any existing static lighting by using the average direction total static lighting contribution, which allows us to approximate the normal mapping component of static lighting.

To enable the new functionality, the content must specify normal and texture maps in the model file (in the texture1 and texture2 fields respectively), as well as specify a render hint, which tells the engine what render path to take. The following shows an example of how this would be done: