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Re: Ways to improve texturing skills
One of the most useful ways to practice texturing in my opinion is to do material studies. You can do them on just regular base meshes or actual objects, but the best way to make a texture look good is to get the material right. So what I mean by that is for example, look at a piece of metal. Can you break it up with your… -
Re: Multi/Sub-object in conjunction with Unwrap UVW
ah well, if you didn't assign the material ^^ Your texture file lies on a "bitmap" node, which has several parameters to control tiling, filtering, uv channel...This is where you get if you click on the diffuse texture (planktextur) in your material editor. It encapsulates your texture file and has a default name at its… -
Re: HandPaint Practice
here is my handpainted house started as arenanet test, but the test was then cancelled, so it became a little sideproject sculpted and handpainted, no phototextures thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106732 here is an update on my tree (in UDK) : simple diffuse shader (default tonemapping, first time I… -
Re: Wall Panel Help
Setup some manual lights, throwing your model in a scene with only a dominant light (especially what looks to be a Sci-Fi Corridor) isn't doing your model any favors, especially in UDK. Also, the other issue you have is the Diffuse, it looks like it's made out of jeans, or dry wallpaper, and the Normal Maps 'lumpiness' is… -
Re: SciFi Support Beam
Ok so heres the final assets for anyone interested in experimenting with them... Lowpoly - http://www.polycount.com/cottages/rorshach/pimp/SciFi_Support1_low.zip NormalMap LightMap HeightMap Diffuse And thats me done! The Diffuse is just a mask like base to make it easier for you to seperate pieces out from the whole. The… -
Re: Assualt rifle
The highpoly model looks good BUT it looks like you got some problems viewing it in udk as the smooth edges that are present in the normal map do not view in udk. e:// to clear this up they should but you did something wrong What did you use to bake the normal map? that might give us an idea of the problem. In addition… -
Re: suggestions for good grass planes?
Taken out of the context of this thread, I might agree. I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I guess we can get farther off track by widening this discussion to things other then grass? I was saying that the normal map was being used as a patch to prop up the diffuse. When in most cases the diffuse is strong enough… -
Re: tf2 specs
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… -
Re: Pimping and Previews/ Finished work.
well back in older polycount days no one was contributing to SDKs to get a job. It was for the fun and the weird 'art' of it. Nothing prevents that to come back, and the artistry involved in crafting beautiful diffuse texture would serve every aspiring modeler under the sun out there. I know character skintones because I… -
Re: Waterfall Environment
there are a couple reasons, instead of having a rock diffuse with no moss, and a rock diffuse with moss, you could easily use a smaller tileable moss texture and save some memory. but the texture saving thing wasnt the point of that shader idea, it allows you to get a lot more out of a single asset instead of having to…
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