Texture Presentation

[Renzatic]

Hey BT, if you can just upload your textures in their raw form and let me give you a hand in making em. I haven't worked on textures for a few and need to get back in my groove.

[BlackThief]

no problem - I uploaded some photos into Textures/Research_Cloister. have fun

[Renzatic]

Downloading them now.

[BlackThief]

texture test of a wall ingame:

 

http://208.49.149.118/TheDarkMod/screenshots/wall_test1.jpg

 

Renz - shall I create another texture category on the ftp ? perhaps 'Core' ?

[Renzatic]

Nah, that'd go fine in crypt/walls/brick.

 

It looks damn awesome, though. How is the normal on it?

Edited November 4, 2004 by Renzatic

[BlackThief]

well the normal was indeed almost the hardest part of the texture - I tried out about 6 normal maps and that's the only one I liked. You've to tweak the normal a lot in PS, otherwise it'd make the whole texture kinda blurry.

[Renzatic]

Here's my first texture sourced from one of your photos...

 

 

I experimented with heightmaps a bit, turned out pretty alright...I still need to get into more complicated textures, though.

 

Oh, and here's the normal and the dither...I'll upload the actual TGA files to the FTP once I'm done tweaking and playing with it.

 

[BlackThief]

oh, great work man !! looks awesome I quite like how you "moved" the stone forward and backwards !

[Renzatic]

Yeah, it wasn't all that hard to do either...all I did was change the background colors and delete individual bricks til I came up with this...

 

 

The normalmapper added the depth and made it perfect.

 

Oh, and I added a specular, improved the quality of the texture by quite a bit..

 

[BlackThief]

hm, not sure if I like the version with the specular. it looks good in a way, but it also looks unrealistic. rather hard to explain - surrealistic might be the right word

[pakmannen]

The one with a specular looks like something you would find in a sewer. More wet.

[Renzatic]

Which is perfect for the masoleum I'm building.

[BlackThief]

a new brick-texture (also from the Cloister)

 

http://www.dark-project.com/BlackThief/brick_test2.jpg

[Renzatic]

lol, I think you're getting better at this than I am.

[BlackThief]

lol - thx.

 

texture is on the ftp (crypt/walls/brick/brick02)

[BlackThief]

1st ingame test of my framework textures:

 

http://www.dark-project.com/BlackThief/framework_test1.jpg

[Fingernail]

simply bootilicious.

[BlackThief]

WTF is "bootilicious" ?

 

new test (still have to tweak the colour of the 2nd framework):

[Renzatic]

lol, don't ask. YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW!

 

Looking damn good, man. I'm impressed.

 

I've started getting into the materials a bit more deeply over these last few days, and I've finally discovered the joys of heightmaps.

 

I used my most recently wall as an example since I already had a greyscale height on hand....and this is what I came up with.

 

 

Doesn't look vastly different at first glance, but the sense of depth is a little better and the shadows seem to contour to it a bit more realistically.

 

I added this line to my bumpmap material to achieve it...addnormals blends heightmaps and normalmaps (or 2 normalmaps) together to achieve both a sense of depth and detail. I wanna get into more, but since the editor crashes or bugs the texture when I try something more spectacular out (even stuff I rip already proven to work perfectly) I'm stuck with the basics at the moment

 

bumpmap addnormals(textures/dark_mod/crypt/walls/stone/crypt_wall_stone02_local.tga, heightmap(textures/dark_mod/crypt/walls/stone/crypt_wall_stone02_h.tga, 25 ) )

 

Edit: The forum wrapped the text around...the bumpmap command above should all be on one string.

Edited November 6, 2004 by Renzatic

[Fingernail]

although the text wrapping shouldn't really matter.

 

So, who's up for parallax mapping? We could do it in a better way than the parallax mod, by using a separate heightmap image (does however bump up to 4 tgas per texture which uses it), instead of the blue channel of the normalmap method, which is unrealistic and dodgy.

 

Could look quite good on bricks and cobbles especially.

[Renzatic]

I dunno. Everytime I try to add "heightmap <map>" on a seperate string the editor starts reporting errors and won't display the texture in render mode. I've seen other material files on D3W that do it that way so I must be missing a step.

 

I'd love to see our own parallax map mod, but we gotta find someone that can write GLprogs to do it right. Spar might be able to, but he's already got alot on his shoulders already. Think Nex or Oof would be up to it?

[BlackThief]

I tweaked the colour of the 2nd frame work texture - now they fit better together:

 

 

 

edit: uploaded them to the ftp - City/Medieval/Facade

Edited November 6, 2004 by BlackThief

[Springheel]

This is dying for the glowy yellow windows.

[BlackThief]

ok - made a rust texture, so that renz can add some pipes, gears etc:

 

http://www.dark-project.com/BlackThief/rust_test1.jpg

http://www.dark-project.com/BlackThief/rust_test2.jpg

 

edit: made a blueish-metal version:

 

Edited November 6, 2004 by BlackThief

[BlackThief]

credits to oDDity, who send me the link to this wallpaper-page

 

I made several versions of it - with similar colours like in Thief 2

 

http://208.49.149.118/TheDarkMod/screenshots/wp_testblue.jpg

http://208.49.149.118/TheDarkMod/screensho...p_testgreen.jpg

http://208.49.149.118/TheDarkMod/screenshots/wp_testrosa.jpg

http://208.49.149.118/TheDarkMod/screenshots/wp_testred.jpg

 

I'll upload them to Textures/Dark_Mod/Mansion/Walls/Wallpaper/

the files are Mansion_Wallpaper06a - Mansion_Wallpaper06d