grain layer above textures.. <what is it called> ?
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Hello
I found this technique used in Bayonneta
it puts a grain layer over the blury texture < more obvious when the camera is near a wall>
what is this technology called?
because I want to use it in unity.
I found this technique used in Bayonneta
it puts a grain layer over the blury texture < more obvious when the camera is near a wall>
what is this technology called?
because I want to use it in unity.
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details for other people who want to know
http://www.moddb.com/games/overgrowth/news/detail-textures
any website that tells wether if an Iphone can withstand these things?
iPhone 4 uses the PowerVR chipset IIRC, which is a decent amount of rendering power. But whether it does detail mapping simply depends on which game engine you're using. If it supports custom shaders, then you can probably make your own.
Just a litte calculation + some detail textures blended into the original ones tinted in the original color will give relatively good results and should be less costly compared to adding normal maps.
http://www.malcolm341.com/ruckerdlc35big.htm
http://www.malcolm341.com/ruckerdlc04big.htm
But with UDK its easy enough to just fade the detail in by getting camera distance from pixel and making that into a falloff range and threshold.
it is pretty easy to remove or add things from the distance, just using the camera position node and comparing it to the world potion of the mesh, which can be done via a lerp to fade out the detail normal, but it wont save you any resources, since the material will still be using the detail normal texture sample, it just wont be visible on screen.
if you could find a way to trigger the state of a static switch paramater that bypasses the whole detail normal part of the network it could be done, but i find static switch parms tend to lag udk out for a sec when there state is changed, and i also dont know how you would trigger one to change state in the material network via distance, since im sure it is olny possible to change the state of a static switch parm, via kismet or uscript
It's one possibility but more materials mean more drawcalls, and one extra material just to fade out on a detail map sounds like pushing it.
I'm not sure about UDK but CE3 does this automatically, you only start to see the detail NM when you're close to it.
http://www.lumonix.biz/Media/ShaderFX_DetailNormalMapping.wmv
This is untrue, at least on PC. The most noticeable detail normal in BF3 is the tiling finish they have on all of the FP weapons - on some weapons it will visibly repeat when you are using iron-sights.
What you will find, however, is that detail normals are not tossed about on every environment texture, which is something that used to show up a lot more - they are not universally applying detail textures, but they are still using them often.
Yes you can clearly see detail textures on every single character in BF3, it's how they get that fancy high res cloth pattern on the soldier's cloths. I didn't really notice any on the environments in Crysis 2, Rage, and BF3 which I played all on the pc. If there were some here and there I still see a trend where they are not used at all, or used sparsely.
What I did notice on BF3 though was the cloths looked great because of the detail map, but for up close shots the faces looked blurry by comparison, I wonder if a light noise texture could be used to get some grain/skin pores on the faces without looking like shit to fix this texel density mismatch. Could be a cool experiment.