Arcturus textures

[Crispy]

Don't worry about it if it's too much work, it's a good texture anyway.

[Arcturus]

I'm trying to improve a look of tree_dm models. Original texture is 512x512. It's highly stretched which makes it look bad. I was aiming for more photo realistic appearance. New version is 1024x1024.

 

old:

http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=old2ay5.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=old1lm0.jpg

 

new:

http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=new1bn4.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newhm8.jpg

http://img237.imageshack.us/my.php?image=new2ql6.jpg

 

If you think it is a real improvement, I'll upload it tommorow.

[Springheel]

Yes, I think that's somewhat better. The models themselves could use some work...I've made touch-ups to one of them, but the uvmaps could be much better designed.

[Arcturus]

Ok, uploaded.

[Arcturus]

Pine family of tree models was using 256 x 256 and 256 x 128 textures. I replaced sequo1.tga with tree_branch_03_pine.tga and seqbrch1.tga with old_rough02.dds. I placed the second one under dds\textures\darkmod\nature directory as it can be used as a normal texture.

 

old:

http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pineold1th5.jpg

http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pineold2wu0.jpg

 

new:

http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pinenewqz2.jpg

http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pinenew1lo4.jpg

http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pinenew2cd3.jpg

[greebo]

Cool stuff, as always, Arcturus!

[Springheel]

Yes, that's a big improvement, thanks.

[Arcturus]

I'm glad you like it, but you don't have to thank me  We all have the same goal here

[jdude]

This is great, I was just adding some tree stuff recently too wishing the pine trees looked better

[Arcturus]

I replaced normalmap for old_blocks_wornsmooth_dark with high res version:

old

http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lowcl2.jpg

new

http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=highqh5.jpg

[Springheel]

Yep, that's better.

[Arcturus]

I made a new group of church windows - pointedtop_big01: lit in three different levels of brightness (I used rgb values), moonlit in 2 versions and unlit. I packed it all under a one subtree in editor. I think this could be done with all window textures to avoid a mess: http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=treeua0.jpg

 

screenshots:

http://img166.imageshack.us/my.php?image=win1dp8.jpg

http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=win4st2.jpg

http://img166.imageshack.us/my.php?image=win2ch4.jpg

http://img166.imageshack.us/my.php?image=win3my9.jpg

http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=win5ux9.jpg

[Springheel]

Wow, very nice!

[Arcturus]

Thanks Funny how some unexpected things become usefull. I made this photo some time ago in my basement: http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=win6vw8.jpg It's a very dirty small window with a metal net between two pieces of glass  Effect reminds me a little of Thief 3 windows.

[SneaksieDave]

Thanks Arcturus, these are excellent (the result, the method, the organization).

[Arcturus]

...and some simple windows using the same method:

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=windowslitnc9.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=windowsuc3.jpg

[Springheel]

Nice. Is it just me or does the normal look inverted on the inside shot?

[Arcturus]

That depends.. I wanted the pieces of glass to be convex. I just thought it looks good, but it can be easily changed.

[Tels]

That depends.. I wanted the pieces of glass to be convex. I just thought it looks good, but it can be easily changed.

 

Is the "depression" in the glass filled with metal? In that case it would be concave (e.g. the metal sticking out), or?

[Arcturus]

Ok, I modified the normalmap.

[Arcturus]

I've made a highres normalmap for rough_brick_grey.

 

old:

http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=87984294bj0.jpg

new:

http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=60475762dn2.jpg

old:

http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=95500500xh3.jpg

new:

http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=75381820yr2.jpg

old:

http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=14376459pt6.jpg

new:

http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=52198888cf2.jpg

 

I can upload it if it's worth this 2,3 additional mb.

[greebo]

I can upload it if it's worth this 2,3 additional mb.

You're joking, right? Bring them on, I say!

[Arcturus]

Uploaded. It looks better when it's lighted like on the screenshots, but usually there's not much difference, like in tosl map for example.

I'm concerned about performance, because in tosl I have quite strong lags when walking into new areas. I have 1gb ram and 512 mb on graphic card and it seems that it's not enough to run smoothly. Changing seta image_useNormalCompression to "2" doesn't help much for me.

[Arcturus]

I uploaded new stone texture, stone\cobblestones\blocks_mixedsize02_multicolour

 

[Springheel]

Love it! Very, very nice.