Realtexture Game Packs

[Fingernail]

I had emailed him your address, so this is no REAL surprise.

 

But a glad one.

[Renzatic]

Now that we've got someone on the team with the textures, we can now start asking the new hard hitting questions..

 

..like..

 

HEY BT WHEN YOU GONNA UPLOAD EM OR SEND DVD'S OUT! I WANT EM TOO KTHX U CAN'T HAVE ALL TEH FUN! O.o

[sparhawk]

I also would like them.

[Renzatic]

What would be the best way to approach this would be to mail the copies to Spar, then let him distribute them to everyone else. Since he doesn't have a cap on his connection it'd be far more convenient for him to do it than it would be for BT.

[sparhawk]

No Prob. I can put it on Bittorrent for you to download. But of course it means that it will still take a lot of time. I guess it might be a good idea to extract some packages first, that we should share with priority.

[god_is_my_goldfish]

I hope someone at least sent this guy a 'thank you' email.

[Fingernail]

Yup, but since he hasn't replied to many other emails, don't expect anything soon. Also I only got back last night so he hasn't had much time to respond.

[Renzatic]

No Prob. I can put it on Bittorrent for you to download. But of course it means that it will still take a lot of time. I guess it might be a good idea to extract some packages first, that we should share with priority.

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At the very least we should put Game Vols. 1-3 up on the FTP since they're the ones we need the most. Everything else we can put up on the bittorrent.

[Fingernail]

You could send them to Dennis Nixon (in the US sadly) and he could install them straight to the ftp server as it's in his house!

[Dram]

Holy fucken shit! So we got the textures!?! *pops a champagne* This is sweet, sooo sweet (I can't believe I missed this before, sorry for my late celebration hehe)

 

Man oh man, can't wait to try them out...

 

 

Too happy...

[BlackThief]

ok I think I'll copy the dvds and send them to spar (just send me your adress via PM)

 

To provide you guys an insight into the textures I uploaded the first materials to my webspace - of course just preview jpgs - the full-scale textures would be arround 3,5 gigs!

 

http://www.thedarkmod.de//real_texture/materials_vol3/

[Fingernail]

Oh my lord, are we sorted or what!

[BlackThief]

a bunch of doors and stuff

http://www.thedarkmod.de//real_texture/materials_vol4/

[Fingernail]

Are these the normalmapped ones or not?

[BlackThief]

none of the textures are normalmapped....

[sparhawk]

ok I think I'll copy the dvds and send them to spar (just send me your adress via PM)

 

Just sent you my address.

 

The textures look cool!

[BlackThief]

ok I'll try to send them before sunday.

 

windows:

http://www.thedarkmod.de/real_texture/materials_vol5/

[Fingernail]

Ah, I guess that means he didn't send the game packs (which are normalmapped). Which is a bit annoying.

[BlackThief]

he send me all textures, that are offered on his website - don't know why you think they are normalmapped. there's no single word about normalmaps on the website. Guess you mixed that with bumpmaps, which are no use for use.

that's a bumpmap of one of the textures:

[Fingernail]

http://www.realtexture.com/

 

go to GAME EDITIONS

 

This modified version of our "materials" texture-CD-line contains the textures as proportional images with power of 2 dimensions with a border to keep the dimensions and as non proportional images with power of 2 dimensions without a border.

To get perfect per-pixel lighting results besides the grayscale heigh/bump maps we included the corresponding normal maps (normal maps give a per-pixel description of the surface normal vector of the texture).

[BlackThief]

oh, seems like I overlooked that...that's really a bit annoying

[Fingernail]

Actually we can make fairly decent normalmaps from a bump/height map anyway so it's not so bad. Plus they are good sources, stops us having to look around or take our own photos etc.

[sparhawk]

Isn't a bumpmap and a normalmap the same? Strange! What's the difference? IMO the bumpmaps are there to make the geometry stick out which is the same thing that the normalmap doesn, isn't it?

[Fingernail]

bumpmap stores height information

 

normalmap stores directional information - hence the term normal.

[oDDity]

- the term 'normal' meaning the direction a polygon is facing...

You can always make diplacement maps using the bump maps, and generate the normal maps from the displaced geometry.

We don't actually know how they generated their normals maps from the textures. Maybe they just used the photoshop plugin or something like it. I doubt they actually modeled everything out and normal mapped them properly.