Hi all.

What I'm doing is creating a selected object display. This is when a user selects a game object and a window has its detail and a image,
That may show its health status.

I'm working on the image part.
Each object has a .DDS icon image with alpha channel and its a image of the object rendered as a wire frame
the inner parts are coloured black, This is the colour I would Like to over ride.
I tryed three ways the last one works the best but it adds a line at the top and bottom.

I'm thinking its from the top and bottom of the image.

here is my HLSL pixel shader snippit of code
//any other ways I should try.

float4 texColor = gTex.Sample( TexS, input.tex0 );
float4 diffuse = Mdiffuse * texColor;
	
// Kill transparent pixels.
clip(diffuse.a - 0.15f);
	
	
// Interpolated normals can become unnormal--so normalize.
input.normalW = normalize(input.normalW);
input.toEyeW  = normalize(input.toEyeW);
	
// Light vector is opposite the direction of the light.
float3 lightVecW = gLight.dir;
	
	
//shadow stuff
float shadowFactor = 0.0;
	
float3 removethiscolour = float3(0.0, .0, 0.0);//this will be user set later

//if the colour is black then we want to change that colour
//to our new colour

//try 1
//float val = diffuse.r + diffuse.g + diffuse.b;
	//if(val <= 0.55)
		//diffuse = float4(0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0);
 //try 2
//find the colour to over write
	//if(diffuse.r == removethiscolour.r && diffuse.g == removethiscolour.g && diffuse.b == removethiscolour.b )
	//	diffuse = float4(0.25, 0.25, 0.105, 1.0);

//this one I like more
//this here has a nice look to it
float v1 = diffuse.r - removethiscolour.r;
float v2 = diffuse.g - removethiscolour.g;
float v3 = diffuse.b - removethiscolour.b;
float delta = 0.5;
if(v1 <= delta && v2 <= delta & v3 <= delta)
          diffuse = float4(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);

 float4 spec    = Mspec;
 // Compute the lit color for this pixel.
 SurfaceInfo v = {input.posW, input.normalW, diffuse, spec};
    
  
 float3 litColor = ParallelLight(v, gLight, gEyePosW, shadowFactor);
	

 return float4(litColor * gSelectedColour, gAlpha);
    

Just a quick question : how your sampler TexS is defined? Have you tried using point sampling?

Cheers!

Good point.

Totally sliped my mind to change the sampler hehe.

But I still getting the line but is smaller in length, going to look at it in pix see whats going on there.

it was MIN_MAG_MIP_LINEAR;

then I tryed MIN_LINEAR_MAG_MIP_POINT

and using MIN_MAG_MIP_POINT now.

sampler...

SamplerState TexS

{

Filter = MIN_MAG_MIP_POINT;

AddressU = Wrap;

AddressV = Wrap;

};

Heres a Image with three ways of displaying the objects health

A is just replacing the the colour with the health colour.

B is the image with the health colour added to it.

C is change one colour with the Health colour.

I like B. then again C is looking ok. What do you all think..

Ok I know what does it.

It's the Texture Address Mode

I have it set to wrap and it produces the lines all ways at the edge.

I change the Address mode to Clamp and the lines are gone fixed I think.

And after all that I think I don't like what the look of the health image looks like. may do a icon of the obejct and the health colour over the top with no wire frame.