Import problem

jr9

Hi. I need help with textures import to Dota. I made textures as it write in specification. But after import, i loose texture detale. I do not understand what wrong. Color map tga 1024x512 24 bit, mask 1,2 tga 1024 x 512 32 bit, Normal map tga 1024x512 24bit. At the picture what should be, and what i take.

yakonusuke

Tidehunter:
Weapon

• LoD0 Triangle Limit: 600
• LoD1 Triangle Limit: 400
• Texture Size: 128H x 256W

ike_ike

did you max out your ingame texture quality?

jr9

128x256 Just a little bit better.

jr9

Yes. Everything is high.

GhostDetector

You lose texture detail because the map size is s suppose to be 128x256 The engine resizes the maps for you.

Also you should look the embed your images to your posts instead of using thumbnails. Use imgur or something.

jr9

Sorry. This is my first import as you guess I do not understand what resolution i hawe tu import 128x256 or 128x256 x 4 = (512x1024 sourse image. As is specification.
We author source textures 4 times larger than the in-game size for painting and promotional purposes. E.g. a typical weapon has texture resolution of 256x256 pixels in game but source art is 1024x1024)
This is 128x256 This is bad result textured too much squared and not sharp. 512x1024 textures

Noblebatterfly

Can you show UV?

jr9

Yes.

Zipfinator

They're saying they work in 512x1024 for a 128x256 texture. It still gets downsized when it's in game. The easiest way to get more out of your texture is to mirror parts of it.

jr9

I tried a lot of ways but i don't understand how to make textures and normals sharpen. I watched webinars and some lessons. But result is still bad.

jr9

I want to receive something like this.

yakonusuke

Well, you can't. In-game it get's down sized and that is for all textures. Compare tide hunters body texture from marmoset with the ingame viewer; it's blurry too. Because every texture get's rescaled. Only thing you can do is to use the UV space efficiently to max the quality. You still got to much blank space in your UV space.

Baddcog

I think your graphics setting are low, sure stuff is pretty small but should be pretty decent looking n game anyway.

You also don't appear to be using one smooth group (let normals do the work) so you have the sharp angular shading.

Make your texture 4x the size, downsize to half when done, run sharpen filter and downsize again to final n game size , that works pretty good for me.

jr9

Thank you for your answers it is really necessary for me.

down_limit

smoothing groops

pior

This does not look like a technical issue to me - it probably has more to do with how you built the asset in the first place. As a matter of fact the problems are noticeable in the UDK and Marmoset screenshots : as mentioned earlier, your uvs are quite inefficient at the moment. It takes practice !

jr9

Yes i did a lot of mistakes yet. This is just a hobby for me. I have no any education as artist or something like this. But it is interesting for me. Thanks for your answers.

pior

Of course - we all have to start somewhere

If you want to be absolutely sure about the nature of the problems you are running into, you could always take the original TH weapon from the hero model page and export it to the game as a test. If it ends up looking just like the original, it will mean that the issues you are having are coming from your custom asset, and not from the export process. It's a very straightforward way of debugging this kind of problems - like materials behaving unexpectedly or rigging/scaling issues.

Good luck !