ji styles shader...QUICK question....

fritz

please disregard the first few posts....that problem was solved. what i'm wondering is...is there some way to hack in an opacity and color spec tab to this fx shader? i really like how things look in the viewport so far, but i only see diff, norm, spec, and trans here.

any ideers?

xysdf

inverting the green channel of the normalmap should help you out.

fritz

duuuuuuhhhhhhhhhh. jesus...i thought of that, but didn't understand why i needed to because it was fine in DX mode. oh well...that's what you get for starting w/o coffee.
haha. thanks man.

anyone have any tips for a ji styles shader newbie? let 'em roll.

indian_boy

how do u flip the green channel within photoshop? if i use xNormal to produce normals maps, i _always_ have to invert the green, but in all other programs i don't have to... so how do i invert the geen in photoshop? no... not in max

fritz

open your normal map in photoshop. in your layers window...open the channels tab. select the green channel.
then go to image>adjustments>invert.

indian_boy

thanks!

fritz

anyone?

MoP

I think it automatically does opacity if your Diffuse texture is a 32-bit TGA with an alpha channel - it will use the alpha channel for opacity mask.
And as far as I know, the specular is coloured by default... just feed it a colourful RGB 24-bit TGA.

fritz

perfect! thanks again MoP.