shader

Shaders are an element of visual rendering that controls how something appears on a screen via coded instructions. Shaders dictate how something appears lit or unlit, transparent, or how it visually behaves in the world on your screen. Star Wars Galaxies' shaders are very exposed and easily...

This started off as a small side project for my roleplaying server, as I am working on implementing a great deal of planets, but it snowballed into a more in-depth shader project that brought a higher fidelity to the planet textures found in the user interface. These might be just too fancy for...

This is a repacking of two very noteworthy mods made by Kayliaah and Rinzler at ModTheGalaxy.com, with a couple of bugfixes included. This mod reintroduces the species revamps from the NGE for the Human, Zabrak, and Twi'lek. During the NGE, SOE released an enhancement that brought new textures...

Detailed tree sway and movement wasn't overly common in games from SWG's age. Typically you might have the entire tree move, or not at all. While grass and some forms of foilage do have sway in SWG, trees do not, nor do their leaves. This can make scenes look static and unmoving, and as a...

Inspired by the improved water shaders given to Neverwinter Nights for it's enhanced edition, I've went and worked to give new life to the water shaders within Star Wars Galaxies. One of the most glaring issues with water in SWG is that it would seem the water is not affected by the light of...

I was curious as to the exact reason why the Seeker Droid had a bugged out texture, and has had that texture since the dawn of Star Wars Galaxies. It turns out, instead of having the correct texture applied, the Seeker had the texture for the Probot Probe Droid instead. Clearly an oversight by...

Curiously, in Star Wars Galaxies, Protocol Droids do not have emissive eyes, as they do in Star Wars films and other sources. This is likely a result of the fact that there is no shader that supports both reflective textures, and emissive textures at the same time. This mod swaps out the parts...