Texture Presentation

[pakmannen]

And here I thought Spar was going to do that one

[sparhawk]

You think I should model a high poly version of the crate?

[Renzatic]

Man, this place be a ghost town all up in. I leave for like 4 days and everyone jitters away to do their own summer thing.

 

Anyway, got a couple of reference pics from Killed....damn good stuff. I'll upload em in one shot once I get em all.

[BlackThief]

a new texture I created totally from scratch:

 

used this photo from macsen for the "texture" for the bricks.

http://www.thedarkmod.de/intern_screens/mosswall_source.jpg

 

...the normal will be a pain in the ass

[Springheel]

Wow, that looks amazing!

[New Horizon]

Holy sweet lord. That's awesome. It's going to look amazing ingame.

[Renzatic]

You da man, BT!

 

That's gonna be a bitch to normalmap though. O.o

[god_is_my_goldfish]

Jesus man, you have some serious skills to turn that into such a beautiful texture

[sparhawk]

I wonder how you did that from this shot??? Great job really!

[BlackThief]

I wonder how you did that from this shot???  Great job really!

well it's not very hard actually. all I did was cutting out some good areas of the rock and used them as the "colour" for painting the bricks. I used some references for the shape of the bricks, so that they look natural (when you paint the shape totally from scratch you tend to make them look too uniform). the rest was just simple photoshopping - adding some shadows, moss and post processing.

glad you guys like it.

 

I started on the normalmap last night, but it's really hard to make it look good.

[BlackThief]

finished the normalmap

http://www.thedarkmod.de/intern_screens/moss_wall_ingame.jpg

 

took about 4 times longer than the actual texture.

[New Horizon]

WOW! Nice work.

[Springheel]

Fantastic, BT. I can't wait to use a vine arrow on a wall like that.

[Renzatic]

Doooooood. That's some quality work right there.

 

Did you use LW to make the normal, or did you do it with heightmaps?

[BlackThief]

I first tried to do it with LW, but it took me just too long to do one single brick, so I decided to go a quite unconventional way: I took Corth's brick normalmap, cut out single stones and tweaked them, so that they fit exactly to the bricks of my texture. Then I did a heightmap for my texture and combined both. It's not perfect but it works.

 

[Dram]

hehe, sweet

 

Nice work indeed

[Renzatic]

Hey, if it works it works.

[BlackThief]

a new window-texture, that could be used in a city, as well as in other places, like castles, mansions:

http://www.thedarkmod.de/intern_screens/city_window1.jpg

 

somehow my normalmap generated from a lightwave model turned out horrible, so the texture on the screenshot has just a photoshop generated normalmap.

[Springheel]

Very nice. Windows are in short supply at the moment.

[BlackThief]

haven't posted my textures for a while here, but I think you've all seen them on the screens of my map.

 

anyway while waiting for CVS I got bored and so I started to overwork my old crate texture, which was a little bit too clean imho.

 

1st version:

 

revised version:

[Ishtvan]

Wow, looks great! Maybe we can keep both versions, so the clean one could be used for valuable containers of museum items that have been transported with the utmost care, or something.

[Macsen]

used this photo from macsen for the "texture" for the bricks.

http://www.thedarkmod.de/intern_screens/mosswall_source.jpg

 

Wow, I actually did something useful. That stone is actually part of a Druids Circle.

 

I could get tons of shots of old medieval buildings, walls, windows, cathedrals, ecetra if you want them. The advantage of living in a non-economically prosperous part of Britain is that they don't have enough money to rip down all the old 13th Century buildings.

[oDDity]

Yes, that looks good BT, however, the problem with making it a strong pattern like that is that it really stands out that it's the same image plastered on all six sides of the crate, whereas the boring image isn't so obviously repeating.

[BlackThief]

Yes, that looks good BT, however, the problem with making it a strong pattern like that is that it really stands out that it's the same image plastered on all six sides of the crate, whereas the boring image isn't so obviously repeating.

 

of course that's always the problem with repeating or tiling textures - the more interesting the texture is, the more obvious is the repeating.

but in case of the crate is isn't THAT bad - I made a comparion shot - see the attachment. (Have to make a darker specular for the metal though.)

 

@isht yes I'll keep two versions of the crates.

[oDDity]

YEs, it isn't very noticbale, except for the top of the middle plank ,the almost black part, wehich although it looks good, really stands out.