That's great info.. which reminds me, do you think it's possible to do environmental bumpmapping just like what you did with the plasma effect? It's kinda similar and I see that with your water demo entry, but a bit more elaborate where you also use a normal map to help with the outcome of the effect.
Anyway, looking forward to the Blitz optimization update.
I just recently made some dot3 normalmap tests in Blitz. It was said it's static. I found a way to make it react on a moving point light, but it used up 4 texture layers.
You're absolutely right, having a mesh or terrain animated may be an unnecessary load on the cpu, it may be possible to make the cubemap take the bumpmap into account, so you could have nice water simply by animating the bumpmap. I suspect that's how the water in copperlicht works, it's one flat plane. I yet have to try it in Blitz.
A week ago or so I did try to mix them as described above, but the cubemap ignores any per-texel modulation of normals given by the normalmap. BTW do you know why my "jack airbourne" platform game for WebGL runs so slow on Blitzcoder.org? I'd be visiting more there but I felt like somebody gathered my IP and tried to hack me frequently after I have been there. They tried to erase/change my phones password and lock me out. I wonder who's the webspace provider there, but then again I'm sick and tired of any dealing with rats, as these times have revealed how many of them exist. Other than making Schwab, Gates and Fauci into hostile NPCs in a standard FPS, I haven't got much motivation to deal with that "imperial" issue.
