POM Problem

joshschmitt

I was following tutorials for POM in CRY and for some reason it does not turn out the way I wanted it to, getting all sorts of problems.

If I don't have the Height bias all the way up to 1, I get texture popping that moves when my camera moves. For the displacement I followed a tutorial, I have tried two ways in which one way was how CB does theirs, and I am currently using this one for the bricks shown in the picture.

The normal is not how I wanted it to be, but stupid NDO2.









Any help would be great, thanks

-Josh

SlyRipper

How are your textures named? You need _ddn at the end for normal maps and _displ for the displacement map that works with POM. Also did you copy the displ map into the alpha channel of itself (the displ map has the height map in it's alpha)? HAve you set the settings to Very High? Else it won't show, too.

The Height Bias is just the height the POM will work with, normally you would set it to 0 so it starts at the mesh and gets a bit heigher (you will notice this when it ends on other meshes).

Another important info is that, it mostly works well with just plane meshes or on terrains (therefore use the terrain shade instead of illum).


If this doesn't help you, then show us your texture names and tell us what you've pasted into the alphas and how your mesh looks like, or where you want to use it (like terrain).

joshschmitt

Thanks for the reply, I am just starting work so I cannot give you every detail until later. I have made the normal as ddn and made the displacement map as displ, I added it to the alpha of its self, but by very high what exactly do you mean? When exporting I selected displ, and alpha with a 2k resolution.

SlyRipper

I mean the Editor, in the menubar at the top there are "settings" or "Config Spec" (dunno) and you need to set it to "very high" to make POM work properly.

joshschmitt

I tried using the terrain.layer and all I get is a black texture, while still using illum I tried with very high spec, set the height to 0 and what I got was an overlay of my displacement on the bricks.

joshschmitt

For instance, this is what I am currently getting.

SlyRipper

It's kinda strange ^^ the displ seems to have bigger tiling, but you can't change it because it's used from the folder and not loaded into a mapslot..

Maybe this helps you a bit, try to check every step and make sure u did everything right.
http://www.simonfuchs.net/folio/tut02_pom.htm

AlexCatMasterSupreme

When you try and tile a displacement it usually doesn't work well.

joshschmitt

Ok, I fixed it... Apparently I had to switch my bump map from normal to stream, sort of weird considering shouldn't it be normal? Thanks for everyone's help.

AlexCatMasterSupreme

That's not normal.
jokes.

joshschmitt

AlexCatMasterSupreme wrote: »

That's not normal.
jokes.

Why I outta (Insert Homer strangling Bart picture)

Dibbz

Have you tried going into your diffuse and normal slots and setting the tile for u and v back to one, then set it again to how many tiles you want?