Texture Tweaks

[Baddcog]

Some of our textures have major tiling issues.

 

Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes it's not. It can be a problem in diffuse or normal. I suppose specular but that would be less noticable.

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I've really noticed it mainly on tex I have used on models.

 

So far I have fixed issues with about half of the vases and the gold plate local.

[Springheel]

Most of the model textures aren't designed to tile at all.

[Baddcog]

No doubt. The problem is that certian textures should tile.

 

Like I said the vases were a major annoyance to me. If they don't tile you see seams where the edges come together. That leaves ugly lines up and down the sides of each vase model. That's why I stated fixing them.

 

I also fixed te urn tex in which one of the four designs (look like carved hanging cloth) was almost twice as wide as the other 3 on the tex, again giving a really ugly spot on model. The author wuld have to either rotate it to face a wall or deal with a really bad looking tex.

I think it's best not to make authors have to selectiely place objects based on obvious flaws.

 

I just thought this thread would be a good plce to keep track of textures like this that are very obvious and need fixed.

[Baddcog]

Ah well, I was gonna post some screens but I'm tired and not sure when it happened but I can't use my lantern.

Too tired to mess around with lighting models.

[PinkDot]

I also fixed te urn tex in which one of the four designs (look like carved hanging cloth) was almost twice as wide as the other 3 on the tex, again giving a really ugly spot on model. The author wuld have to either rotate it to face a wall or deal with a really bad looking tex.

Thanks Baddcog! I never noticed that...

[Baddcog]

No prob Pink,

I did go to take a screen in game of it, but it looks like no model uses it? I looked in vases and graveyard. It's a cool tex so I lan on making an urn to use it on unless I missed what it was used for. I think it would make a cool stone carved urn anyway.

 

I noticed the prob with the antique vase (tan texwith bumps) was that it had 'smooth' pixel edges, that was probably from being painted at a larger size and shrunk. Photoshop tends to mess up edges during resizing. I think it's when you resize a psd with layers, bt not an image like a tga. Been awhile since I've messed with that stuff though.

[PinkDot]

I did go to take a screen in game of it, but it looks like no model uses it? I looked in vases and graveyard. It's a cool tex so I lan on making an urn to use it on unless I missed what it was used for. I think it would make a cool stone carved urn anyway.

Actually that urn1_d.tga file is not longer used anywhere since I made new skins for graveyard models. I should have deleted it from SVN. Now that urn model (currently it's part of a grave only) uses urn1_f and urn1_local (and common gravestone texture) and they have the same tiling issue since it all comes from that screwed up normal map. Sorry for that confusion. If you don't feel like doing it again for those other two textures that's fine but I will be able to correct it only somewhere around the middle of September .

[Baddcog]

Actually that urn1_d.tga file is not longer used anywhere since I made new skins for graveyard models. I should have deleted it from SVN. Now that urn model (currently it's part of a grave only) uses urn1_f and urn1_local (and common gravestone texture) and they have the same tiling issue since it all comes from that screwed up normal map. Sorry for that confusion. If you don't feel like doing it again for those other two textures that's fine but I will be able to correct it only somewhere around the middle of September .

 

 

Ah, I didn't even notice Urn_f. I will fix it so it matches the others, will only take a few minutes.

 

I would like to keep urn1_d.tga also though. I have an idea for a 'flower pot' that this tex would be perfect for, great for graveyard and we have nothing like it, please don't delete.

 

While looking at the graves I noticed a couple things.

 

1-now that I've looked at em again with all the textures I have to say these are VERY sweet models.

2-But it looks like the tex on the icon atop of gravestone _5 is messed up. Must have wrong shader on that part. (grave simple_5 also)