Splatoon syle ink coverage

ZombieGraves

I've been playing through Splatoon this weekend, and I've been trying to figure out how they manage such a huge amount of constant ink coverage. Can't be decals, there's too much of it and it's seamless over curved surfaces. I doubt it's vertex colors, the polycount would be out of control to get that kind of definition. Anybody have theories?

ZacD

I haven't looked too much at Splatoon, but isn't the effect similar to the gels in portal 2?

http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2011/gdc_2011_grimes_nonstandard_textures.pdf

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JordanN

You're in luck. Someone on Neogaf recreated the shader for you. Even including a playable demo.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=116699387&postcount=235

Also, here's a follow up post by M3d10n (who's a developer).

"Correct. The levels already need an unique texture wrapped over all static geometry for lightmaps, they can just reuse the UV coordinates and add a dynamic layer on top of it."

ZombieGraves

Great resources guys, thank you!