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Re: Could use some crutiques on my forest WIP...
Alright, sorry for the delay but here are the flats for the mud ground texture. Workflow for creation (approx. 4 hrs): 1. Start with basic diffuse, something with enough detail in colours to bring out the normals/specular nicely. Make sure the map is at least 2k, you can always downres it... 2. Adjust diffuse colour… -
Re: Occlusion affects direct lighting?
This is not entirely correct. For Toolbag: * AO affects ambient image-based diffuse lighting (ie: Sky lighting) * AO does not affect direct diffuse lighting * AO does not affect image-based reflections / specular * AO does not affect direct reflections / specular It looks like that list suggests AO is multiplied on IBL… -
Re: UDK Physically Based Lighting!
Where we are talking about "IBL" here, we should be calling it "Ambient". There is Ambient Specular and Ambient Diffuse. Both should be part of the custom lighting, not the emmisive slot. This is an approximation we're doing here, so sometimes we have light sources that don't exactly match our cubemap. Another term for… -
Re: Light Mapping help
F1>vertexpaint ? I don't get what you ask. Assign a vertex paint modifier, everything is in there. You have to check the cube on the upper left of the vertexpaint window "vertex color display unshaded" to see it. You can paint manually, or bake a lighting ("assign vertex colors" using scanline renderer only). The vertex… -
Re: Somebody is up for a Civil War?
So, as far as a brief goes, I was thinking something along these lines, maybe? This isn't official by any means, just my own idea. Weigh in with your input. If we went for the fable/fantasy idea we could do something along these lines 14K tris for total character count. This can be for one character, a horde of characters,… -
Re: Is UDK's default AO different then baking an AO Map?
Not necessarily, when people bake out their AO for their diffuse maps it's generally used just to make textures pop more and it can be used as a guideline for painting your diffuse texture among other things. The main difference between UDK's AO and baking AO is that baking AO will act on each single object individually.… -
Re: Reflective metal in UDK / Alpha backfacing question
this would be your basic setup for a reflection. if you were using a cubemap you would skip the component mask, but since i want a 2d texture to be reflected it's needed. by multiplying it with the spec map we're determining where things should be more or less reflective - just like the normal use of a spec map is… -
Re: FF 6 magitek arrmor
Both. Overall you have very little material definition, few fine-level details, etc. Your darks are too dark. You have very little believable wear, grime, dirt, etc. You have colors, rather than materials, in the diffuse. It looks like you're painting a lot of lighting information rather than letting your lights and… -
Props and other environment stuff
I'm going to be doing some environment stuff, hopefully two or three nice props a week for the next two weeks or so. Did this 60s radio today, took about 5 hours. Crits, comments, optimization and workflow input much appreciated. I don't know a lot about environment and prop stuff, since my focus has been on characters to… -
Re: Normal maps, Engines and dull colour palettes!
I think a lot of the people who figure that pure diffuse is a thing of the past, and therefore don't ever bother learning it, fall flat on their faces. It's pretty hard to make good next-gen (for whatever that word is worth) models and textures if you can't paint a decent diffuse map. So I wouldn't say any is easier to…
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