Sprite effect needed

[MolokoTheMole]

I've asked for help before but I couldn't manage to do it.
What I need is a sprite effect using normal mapping. The effect can be explained and seen in this sample:

http://creators.xna.com/Headlines/devel ... ample.aspx

It uses Xna, if you don't want to install it, here's an avi I made of it:

effect uses Xvid codec

So I want this implemented in Irrlicht. If you provide me with a complete solution for this, I'm willing to pay money for it.

[Midnight]

how much money?

I'm guessing you don't have enough.

[bitplane]

Is that simply a normal-mapped billboard sprite?
It should be pretty easy to edit CBillboardSceneNode.cpp to use the EVT_TANGENTS vertex type and use the built-in bump/parallax map shader to get this effect. In fact, we should probably add a setVertexType method to IBillboardSceneNode for this purpose (and for lightmaps/detailmaps of course)

[MolokoTheMole]

how much money?

If you can prove you can do it, we'll talk about how much. I'm serious about this so don't worry.

bitplane:
I forgot to mention, I can't use EVT_TANGENTS cause I dynamically change the vertices and from what I know the tangents would need to be recalculated everytime.

[bitplane]

how do you change the vertices? is a billboard not appropriate? calculating the tangent and binormal isn't hard, just use the code from the mesh manipulator.

[MolokoTheMole]

I got it working, thanks. Tangents aren't hard at all since it is 2D.
My next problem is proper alpha channel for the sprite and the bump map, any tips?

[MolokoTheMole]

I got alpha channel working.

Now what I'm struggling is rotating the sprite. The bump map doesn't work at all with rotations on xy plane.