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Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
Hi there, I'd say you are thinking about this backwards. You are assuming things about the past based on what you know of game art and 3D software of today, which I suppose is an intuitive thing to do ... but this leads you to imagine things about previous tech and workflows that just don't apply at all. - First off,… -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
Hello, "How do these textures look so real on the colormap alone?" These diffuse textures look real because the artists who painted them understood the properties of a given material (similarly to how someone would assign roughness values), but *also* knew how to represent these materials like a figurative painter doing… -
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I tried borrowing it, but I am not applicable, and where on earth did you mind that download?! I've been looking everywhere. -
Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
How/what software was used to create PBR textures in the 2000s? For example, Iron Man. The reflective metal is something I've always been curious on how it was done for the time period. Another example is the older GTA's and Half-Life's. How do these textures look so real on the colormap alone? -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
if environment cube reflections been added to spec/gloss I saw no much of a difference with PBR contrary to all those before/after pictures . And it had been sort of more flexible. No special hacks was necessary to fight this PBR plastic look on flat 2d grass base for example. You could use whatever Fresnel style mask you… -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
Yeah there was a lot of dirty tricks, sometimes baked lighting was added to textures, sometimes it roughly matched the ambient lighting of the games. Often times photo textures had no strong directional lighting, but they did align the lighting that did exist to the scene so it looked more natural. -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
This is all so-so-so incredibly useful, I have another question regarding early 2000s workflow, Theres a video that talks about the development of God of War 2005, but it skips a part of the whole reason I was looking for it, character modeling. Was ZBrush or something used back then to make these models?… -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
Alias Maya and Kinetex 3Ds Max as they were before Autodesk, offered built-in baking. Its still there now Render to Texture afaik its called where you can choose types of maps you want to bake including lighting. Unreal Tournament baked lighting info on the base texture to have that distint look. Below is an example,… -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
Zbrush appeared around 1999 maybe or early 2000 after some Siggraph presentation or something. First it was almost purely 2,5 painter with ability to drop small meshes on 2,5D canvas . I recall I instantly suggested to buy it for $900 but our management refused saying why would we need this weird soft doing weird stuff… -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
Heh, that's funny. I was there when the deep graphics were written. In the early 2000s GPUs didn't have enough VRAM for baked normal maps, and didn't have enough zoomies to run more than 1 simple shader calculation per pixel. When you did see normal maps, it was only as tiny tileable detail normal maps that would help sell…
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