Any trick to control spacing between hard surfaces?

bitinn

Basically I want to use fill effect to apply a hard surface (normals) onto a layer, but because it's considered a texture, I cannot control the spacing between them.

Using paint effect with brush would work, but doesn't allow me to dynamically adjust spacing neither.

Is there a trick I am not seeing?

bitinn

Related question:

Is there any way to make hard surface at high UV scale look better (less wavy) ? The hard surface itself looks smooth at low UV scale.

Texel density is at 2.56 px/unit, so I can understand it's a bit blurry at close-up. But the wavy lines are killing my sights even at a distance.

poopipe

Painter doesn't mip.  Look at it in engine before you panic 

bitinn

poopipe said:

Painter doesn't mip.  Look at it in engine before you panic 

I did a quick test, indeed it looks better in Unity, though wavy-ness is still observable.



I am probably going to take the suggestion from allegorithmic forum: try to give it more texture space than 2.56px/unit (using an extra mat id).

poopipe

It's a pretty common problem with glossy materials.  simply reducing the amount of gloss based on distance from the camera in your Shader can be quite an effective solution.