How to Make an Albedo Texture from a Diffuse Texture [HELP]

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  Eric Chadwick admin

  Nov 2017

  Show an example of your texture, and a reference image of what you're trying to achieve.
  
  Diffuse and albedo are pretty much the same thing in game art. Unless you have an old-school diffuse with lighting painted into it.

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  Hcn null

  Nov 2017

  Diffuse
  
  
  
  Albedo
  
  

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  Noth polycounter lvl 15

  Nov 2017

  The information you're losing is information that is supposed to be in other maps. You'll get it back later, in the final material.

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  Eric Chadwick admin

  Nov 2017

  The albedo example you show is not the true albedo. It should have NO lighting information at all. No shading, no smooth reflectivity. The overlapping boards are showing shadows, and the raised wood grain is showing lighting information. Just as Noth says, that lighting information should be coming from your normal map, roughness map, reflection map, and geometry. Not from the albedo.
  
  Here's an example
  https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/006/740/095/large/kem-yaralioglu-woodfloor-02.jpg
  
  

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