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Re: tf2 specs
Ahh thanks cheese that explained a lot. - Unique UV's huh... kind of a bummer but that confirms some of the tightly packed textures I've seen. - Mirrored UV's? Do you mean overlapping or flipped/inverted UV pieces - Spec Maps. For the life of me I couldn't find where they where hiding the spec maps. But in the alpha of the… -
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I'm not sure exactly what you're asking Vig, but I'll try to explain what I know. Normal maps still require unique UVs in Source AFAIK. There's one example where the normal is mirrored on one of the antlions, but I've not seen it anywhere else and I don't know how they did it. Most of the characters are pretty reliant on… -
tf2 specs
i'm working on a character in tf2 style for fun, i've read a bit about their specs, close to 13k polys teeth and eyes modeled . but i'm not sure, is it possible to put player models in tf2 at this point? and how would you do all the fancy shader stuff they use on the characters. any links to resources would be helpfull.… -
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Yeah, by mirrored I meant flipped UVs, like you would normally do for hands etc. You dont need to tell the engine that the spec map is in the alpha channel of the normalmap. It looks there automagically. If you're not using a normal map but still want spec, you can put it in the alpha channel of your diffuse map, but you… -
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I don't mean to thread high jack but this seems like a better spot to ask then starting a new thread. Does anyone know of a good place to find some info about how they handled normal and spec maps on characters and environment props? The Valve Wiki seems kind of light on that info, or maybe I'm not using the right words in… -
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I'm starting to understand why they didn't go for separate spec maps, when they have phong and env cube maps. I will have to give phong a try. I would like to use a unified semi glossy paint for most of the metal props on the blue base. I have a few pretty big props sitting out in a wide open area and it might be too… -
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That polycount you have is WAY off. I think that that might be the count for the high versions used in the "meet the" series. I've got the maya version of the heavy open here (without weapons), and he's only around 3700 tris. I'd aim for around 5000 polys or less for an in-game character. As prof 420 said, the shaders are… -
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I did some digging around today and found out some more stuff. There are two versions of each character - a high version and a low one (not a LOD of the high btw, it's got its own QC file to compile from). I think you're posting the LODs from the high one where they're too far away to warrant using the eye shader and also… -
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gfc is the format for compressed files for valve games. similar to quake pk3 if you're familliar with them. GCF requires special tools to browse/edit the packs, one called GCFScape. http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=25 -
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Rhinokey, any chance the poly count being displayed in the model viewer is also including the poly count for the bones and ragdoll/collision mesh on top of the player mesh? I don't know where to find the polycount in the model viewer, but my guess is it would be adding up everything since its all been compiled into one…
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