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Re: [ TIP ] Handpaint normal maps with less effort
The haloing I'm talking about is because crazybump and the nvidia filter make up the angle by checking surrounding pixels for differences in "height". If you have a 3x3 pixel image, with a single white pixel surrounded by black ones, the nvidia filter has no idea what to do with that--you get a halo of angles of a single… -
Re: Vector Textures?
Vectors are in today's games, just not as 'traditional' textures. They're usually in there for use in some math-based operation for a specific effect; reflections, fresnel, screen-space shaders like SSAO and screen-space reflections (calculating screen normal, reflection vectors, distance to next 'collision', etc). What… -
Re: TexTools 3.0+
Since TexTools can space shells by pixels, how about a tool that would simply run a check on your uv map and detect spacing. So it would ask for a map size and a spacing value, and then run a check on your uv map, and select any shells for example that spaced closer than 8 pixels apart. Right now I do this, but in a really… -
Looking for an environment modeler
Hi! I'm laxeot, from Octothorpic, and we've been working on a 2D text based adventure with some pixel art. We have a region that is too large to properly convey with pixel art, and would like to have a 3D model which will be run through some composite stuff in Blender to make it look like pixel art. If you have a way to… -
Looking for an environment modeler
Hi! I'm laxeot, from Octothorpic, and we've been working on a 2D text based adventure with some pixel art. We have a region that is too large to properly convey with pixel art, and would like to have a 3D model which will be run through some composite stuff in Blender to make it look like pixel art. If you have a way to… -
Re: I'm after a very specific UV editor
When you say Pixel what do you mean exactly? Pixel - UV Editor/Monitor Space or Texture Resolution Space. Seems like you're trying yo match UVs, have you tried transfering UVz from one mesh to the other and using it as a starting point? You can move stuff in blender easy (by texture resolution pixel) Make Selection, and… -
Re: How many instructions?
The diffuse color, and actual texture sampling happen in the fragment/pixel shader which as you can see is rather light. A baseline static color into diffuse phong model generates 38 pixel shader instructions and 33 vertex instructions. ie this Changing THAT material to blend_translucent instantly increases the vertex… -
Re: poops substance fiddling thread
i did this primarily because I'm going to need it at work on monday but it's a neat enough trick that it's worth sharing here generally speaking I don't do a lot with fx-maps. most things can be done better in pixel processors if you apply enough maths but in this instance I will need to take advantage of their inherent… -
Re: TexTools for Blender
@Podolstein Have a test file that you can send me? Obviously hitting memory limits somewhere - perhaps a different strategy could be applied to avoid using that much memory at once. @FourtyNights I am aware of meshlint, 3dsMax had something similar of a mesh debug view. To be fair with UV's you have at least Angle and Area… -
Re: DISCUSSION: Is game art enough for a videogame to be "timeless"?
That's a good point. About a year ago I would have confidently said that pixel art will never go out of style, but after reading lots of iOS customer reviews for games coming out with pixel art and seeing newer generation gamers who didn't grow up playing pixel games in their childhood complain that everything looks "low…
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