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Re: Tile Texture / How to make it more credible ?
Hmm, is the ground polished (EI: Waxed, etc)? A good and cheap/dirty way to break up the tiling on polished floor, is to apply a cube map and vertex blend it. So certain parts will have a little tiny bit of reflection, while other parts will be worn out. You could also put this idea to use:… -
Re: Weird UDK translucent/aplha problem.
There should be no reason to have alpha in a separate texture, to me it sounds like there is a problem with your material or texture. You can take any channel from any texture and assign to any of the material connections. Without seeing your material settings or seeing your textures alpha channel, it would be hard to form… -
Re: Cheap temporary DX 11 graphics cards?
I just bought a GTX 560 TI on amazon for $249 for our desktop. [ame="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004KZHRAM/ref=oh_o00_s00_i01_details"]Amazon.com: EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Superclocked 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card - Lifetime Warranty 01G-P3-1563-AR: Computers & Accessories[/ame] I have the same card in… -
Re: RAM or Video Card upgrade to run huge scenes in engine?`
d1ver - I just got windows 7 professional 64-bit and I have 8 gigs(giggety) of ram I opened 2 copies of 3dsmax both with shader heavy scenes,adobe cs5 with 20 x1024 textures, UDK with a heavy scene and firefox. It used about 5.5 gigs of ram and around 50-60 percent of my cpu(its a quad core). So yeah it kind of hard to max… -
Re: Where are the normal maps stored in Crysis 2?
correct me if im wrong, but to "compress" the normal maps, the texture exporter removes the blue channel, which leaves only the green and red channels (for normal X and Y) This effectively makes the normal maps look a bit odd. The way to fix it is to open up the normal map in photoshop, apply a levels modifier, and make… -
Re: Understanding averaged normals and ray projection/Who put waviness in my normal map?
It would help if you posted images of the problem in that case. The dithering improvement makes sense, when you make the normals completely flat, you're essentially matching the normals of the highpoly as closely as possible, this means the base normal map can be a flat neutral 127/127/255. Bit-depth issues are most… -
Re: Handpainted graveyard 2.5D Style.
Hey Antonio, I think your artstyle is great and looks very professional. Is it all handpainted in Photoshop or do you also use highpoly sculpts to bake maps? Could you please share a screenshot of how the normals of that pillar look before and after your custom edit? I guess you bent them upwards, but it would be awesome… -
Re: dxt1 compression alternatives?
Yeah it's weird, it not subtle changes that are causing the banding it's actually the value of the pixel relative to the 255 range, the brighter the pixel is the better the compression works. Looks nifty for colour maps, chokes on dark lightmaps, bright light maps look nifty as well. For those interested in the format>… -
Re: PS3- too expensive to develope for?
Have you ever heard of the Razor and Blades business model? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_and_blades_business_model The Xbox 360 supposedly has a manufacture cost of $550. Which is why they are going to be fabricating new smaller die parts. The Gamecube launched at cost, meaning it cost as much to buy as manufacture… -
Re: LOD - Technics - Insert Loop/Edge
Normal map baked into a specific vector data difference between your LP and HP, so unless you do some weighted normal edit on your LP mesh which will minimize (not eliminate) the gradient on your normal map, you cant edit the mesh without introduce some shading issue. So the general idea is that you want your normal map on…
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