Ryse Moss Tutorial

Nuclear Angel

Pretty pretty, useful reading is good for curious minds

Thanks for sharing.

RC-1290

Very nice technique. I only ever tried the shells technique with multiple shader passes, each using a different offset in the vertex shader.

Do you blend between the moss layers, or if that only an alpha test?
If you use alpha blend, how do you sort the layers?

Madosho

Thanks Zenpat for this excellent tut . This reminds me of how they did fur in Shadow of the Colossus, somehow.

nbac

did somebody already wrote a maxscript for that?

NB-DanTE

nice trick, thanks for sharing dude

gutty333

Hey everyone having an issue with the texture. not sure if is the alpha or the shader

Here is my diffuse



Here is the Alpha,(I am inserting it into the alpha channel as usual)



Here is my export settings, as you can see from the preview, the alpha is not represent the information correctly.



Here is how it looks in the engine



Help on the issue, would be very much appreciated guys, hoping to utilize this great technique "zenpat" was kind to share.

e-freak

your CryTiff preset is set to Diffuse with AlphaTest, which, essentially, is a threshold for a 1-bit alpha channel. You want to set CryTiff to Diffuse with Alpha (no test) to get a 8-Bit Alpha

Technical explanation: CryTiff is Tiff with a meta-header that stores what DDS compression the engine can apply to a texture. Both resolution as well as DDS format are specified to be the most optimized without requiring the user to deal with too much technical setup.

gutty333

@e-freak thanks a ton. Fast reply and great info, very much appreciated

Played with the alpha a bit.

AlexKola

Epic stuff.

lewist

Very cool solution for approaching moss. Thanks for sharing!

Ootrick

Thanks for taking the time to share a great technique!

Ra6ga5ka

Hey Pat, thanks for that tutorial.. i picked the workflow and rebuild it with a shader to save Texturespace and make it much faster to work with it.. if i find the time i cobine the technique with a Blendlayershader. but for now my progress.. sorry for using ur textur examples. i just use one square of ur texture and combine the 4 Alphalayers by simply multypoly them and set the alpha value to 0.25.

Thanks Man !!!

LuCh!

nice, big thanks for the pdf,
now I don't have te find this thread again if I need a look at this again! ^^