Some Photos From Germany, Autstria And Italy

[pakmannen]

Can be downloaded here: Texturer.rar (28 megs)

 

23 photos (uncompressed, hence the big filesize). Renz has had a first look and seemed to think we could use em.

[Renzatic]

Why has no one replied to this yet? There are some damn good textures to be had in here.

 

Remember, just because we have the realtexture set doesn't mean we should stop looking for potentially good stuff to add ourselves.

[Darkness_Falls]

Yes, those are good. Thanks for capturing those!

[UglyEd]

I took 03.jpg and made a normal map for it:

 

 

 

Specular image

 

 

Normal image

[Darkness_Falls]

Sweet!

[pakmannen]

Wow! That looks real sweet!

[oDDity]

TJHat normal map isn't right though. The panels are sticking out when they should be indented.

Everyone doing them should learn to read what direction normals maps are in at a quick glnce, it'll save you time putting them in the game, noticing it, and then have to invert them.

[Fingernail]

Actually that looks right to me. With D3's Y-inverted normals, the indents look like protrusions etc.

 

The trouble we had with the Lightwave plugin was that indentations looked like indentations and came out in D3 as protrustions.

 

Trust me.

 

It's correct. And don't give me any of your GOT CHARACTERS INTO DOOM 3D MODELER KNOWS BEST. Just trust me. You can even see it in the plugin 3D view. I know when I am 100% correct.

 

http://wiki.doom3reference.com/wiki/Image:Normal_example.jpg

 

Observe how the grouting between the bricks appears somewhat protruded, like piped icing. Actually, ingame it appears indented as you would expect grouting to be.

[Fingernail]

http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=77148#77148

 

The handles look indented on the normal. They look protruded on the ingame screenshot.

 

And scroll down to a corrugated iron texture. Notice the same thing - just because the normalmap has lighter shades on one side doesn't mean that's how it looks ingame.

[SneaksieDave]

Nice looking stuff in that thread from rich_is_bored. If he's bored, he should join up!

 

Edit: Crap! I finally am seeing these shots - they're great!

[UglyEd]

It looks ok to me too. Here is an ingame screenshot:

 

[oDDity]

My renderbump normal maps don't look inside out. Things that should be sticking out, are sticking out.

In other words, there is obviously no way to tell by looking at a normal map if it will be correct in Doom or not.

Riviets which should be sticking out -

[Fingernail]

Those look indented to me.

[oDDity]

And see this thread. Renz normal mapped this and it looks like the mortar is protruding - and it was, it had to be inverted.

 

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=2137&st=100#

It seems that renderbumpflat makes them look inside out, and renderbump and the nvidia normal mapper makes them look 'normal'.

[Fingernail]

Question: was Corth rendering those in Doom 3? Because if we've learnt anything, it's that different renderers use different normalmap specifications.