Texture Presentation

[BlackThief]

Is there any way you can clean up the lumpiness around the trim designs on the normalmap? It mars the diffuse texture up and makes it look a little weird.

which texture do you mean?

[Renzatic]

Your windows.

 

The little bumps are holdovers from the texture you based the normal off of...they're really tiny, but to me they can make a great texture look kinda low res.

 

lol, I'm probably being overly picky about it here, so bear with me.

[BlackThief]

ah, ok now I know that you mean and you're right - the normalmap of the windows doesn't fit 100% to the diffusemap - I'll overwork that

[Fingernail]

If we had all the time in the world I'd probably model all those details, but for one texture, it's not worth the effort.

[Renzatic]

We need quality of presentation, man. The better everything is the better the entire mod will look..I wouldn't wanna skimp on something simply because we don't think we have the time.

 

Course that's alot easier said that done considering we don't have a dedicated texture team...almost all of us making them do something else as well.

[BlackThief]

haha you thought the normalmap of the texture above is a pain in the ass - what do you think about my new one:

 

 

 

I guess that'll be a real challenge - but it'd worth it, wouldn't it?

Edited May 8, 2005 by BlackThief

[Fingernail]

yeah, it would. I'll add to the list.

[Macsen]

That's great. Sneak pagan imagery into everything you can.

[BlackThief]

tried to make a 2nd one with a griffin, but I'm not happy with the result...

 

http://www.thedarkmod.de/darkmod_files/paneling_griffin.jpg

Edited May 10, 2005 by BlackThief

[BlackThief]

ok tried to make the normal myself - turns out ok imho:

http://www.thedarkmod.de/intern_screens/pa...ng_rendered.jpg

a modelled one would give the face more depth maybe

so the normal for the other wallpanel and the ceiling are more urgent.

[Renzatic]

If that texture were a woman, I'd want her to bear my babies...then I'd have kids with awesome normalmaps.

 

Did you do that in Lightwave, or did you make a really good heightmap?

[BlackThief]

lol I've done it with a simple heightmap - wasn't that much work.

[Darkness_Falls]

I need to visit this thread more often. There's some cool stuff in here!

[Springheel]

That looks great BT! The wood looks really rich.

[BlackThief]

thx

 

finger you posted the normal of the thief 2 style wallpaneling on the beta-forums - is this the final version? if it is I'll pick it up and combine it with the photoshoped normalmap.

[Fingernail]

Ok, I'll make another file that's got no compression (still a JPG so you can just copy it off the forums)

[Fingernail]

http://img98.echo.cx/my.php?image=btwoodpanel1local5qp.jpg

 

Doesn't have any artifacts I can spot...it's quite simple so it compresses quite well. But yeah, combine it with the 2D one for more detail.

[BlackThief]

here's a stone-tile like texture

it's made of a source photo I found on a free-texture homepage. I think you can use that in almost every kind of map - it'd fit into a mansion basement, into a castle, into a factory etc etc.

 

the normalmap is very subtle but I think it's ok like that - it looks much more 3d when you walk around than on that screenshot.

[Springheel]

How do we decide which folder to put multi-purpose textures like this in?

[New Horizon]

Mmm, that's a yummy stone tile. I like it. Hmm, don't we have a miscelaneous folder for those?

[Renzatic]

It looks more dingy and dungeony to me. For a texture like that I say just pick a theme that fits it the most and slap it in there..or flip a quarter.

[BlackThief]

I finally put it into castle/floor

[Fingernail]

 

Cathedral window - needs a proper stain glass diffuse map, as well as some other issues. I thought I might let one of our 2D artists come up with some nice scenes for the big panels. I'll give the template to anyone who wants to have a go.

 

The rest is just old/random cathedral stuff with too much lighting and the font model in the middle.

[Renzatic]

It's still not finished yet, in fact I'll probably have to redo the gottdamn thing a 5th time, but the end result should look something like this:

 

 

Only with more detail of course.

[Ishtvan]

Looking good!