Lights

[BlackThief]

Ok started on the fancy gas-light.

here's a early WIP shot. (of course we can have several versions of it - for example the same thing in gold)

Edited December 31, 2004 by BlackThief

[Fingernail]

niceness!

[_Atti_]

whoa..looks good..

but since its look changed from the original i will need to create a new high poly in order to create that normal map,or will you generate it from that with ps?

[oDDity]

Yes,that's great, It's a pity doom doesn'rt support reflection maps. Or does it?

[Fingernail]

not properly...cubemaps, or perfect mirrors only.

[TYROT]

dear Black Thief

 

 

NICE NICE NICE NICE !!!!!!! Look at those details...sweeeeeeeeeet

 

 

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[oDDity]

I supoose we could do a small animated cubemap to show a flame's reflection flickering in metal.

[DeepOmega]

Not worth the performance decrease. The flickering light itself will look pretty damn good.

[Springheel]

Agreed, if we can get a flickering light that actually flickers.

[BlackThief]

whoa..looks good..

but since its look changed from the original i will need to create a new high poly in order to create that normal map,or will you generate it from that with ps?

I'll try to generate it in PS...

[BlackThief]

since my Doom3 editor doesn't work anymore - here's a unrendered screen out of blender --> without any normalmapping

 

I thought about if it would be possible to fake the transparency of the glass with two textures - a lit one and a dark one. I think that'll look much better than with a glass-shader. here's the lit one

Edited January 2, 2005 by BlackThief

[BlackThief]

here's another screen. BTW I did add a sign to it yet , so one part is still transparent.

Edited January 2, 2005 by BlackThief

[sparhawk]

I thought about if it would be possible to fake the transparency of the glass with two textures - a lit one and a dark one. I think that'll look much better than with a glass-shader. here's the lit one

Looks good enough. Only problem is, if it is not transparent will it cause enough light? But I guess there have to be additional lights placed, anyway.

[BlackThief]

I think that the mappers will have to place the lightsource slightly above it anyway, so that wouldn't be a problem.

 

BTW still have the same problem with the d3 editor - that's really annoying

[BlackThief]

ok it's ingame now - unfortunately it looks like shit

there're two problems:

1. - the glass should really be transparent - it turns out pretty odd ingame. (don't know why it looked so much better in blender)

2. there're still black lines all around the glass (you can see it on the screen). they already appeared in blender, but I thought they are either a display issue caused by blender, or small edges that weren't textured.

Edited January 3, 2005 by BlackThief

[New Horizon]

Still looking pretty damned great BT. I'm sure these details will be ironed out.

[TYROT]

dear BT

 

It does look awesome in the game...And i believe you will solve those tiny black lines...It looks so cool...man!!

 

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[sparhawk]

ok it's ingame now - unfortunately it looks like shit

I guess the colour is wrong. Maybe it should be more gold or something. It doesn't really fit in this room.

[Springheel]

Everything but the glass part looks good to me, though I think Spar is right about not suiting the room. We should make a brass one as well for warmer rooms. This light made me immediately wonder where the Thief will have to aim his water arrow. Will hitting the wall do it or will he need to hit the glass?

[BlackThief]

a brass one would be no problem - that's 5 minutes in PS. however I'd appreciate if someone could get the glass-effect working. that's just not my field - maybe renz could do that - he doesn't seem to be busy with the mod ATM anyway

[_Atti_]

the part where it connects the wall looks awesome

[TYROT]

dear BT

 

i agree with Atti...Thatconnection part is even inspiring...So good.. I know may be this is a useless feedback but i really like it and wanted to write it once more...

 

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[sparhawk]

i agree with Atti...Thatconnection part is even inspiring...So good..

Which part are you talking about? It looks to me as if there is the base of th light and he just placed it in the circle of that hammer texture.

[oDDity]

Show us the material file you've done for this so we can see the glass shader (it doesn't look like there is any glass shader)

 

textures/glass/outdoor_glass1
{
   noSelfShadow
   noshadows
   twosided
   translucent
   glass
   forceoverlays
   sort decal

   qer_editorimage textures/glass/glass1
   {
       vertexProgram heatHaze.vfp
       vertexParm  0  0 , 0  // texture scrolling
       vertexParm  1  .5  // magnitude of the distortion

       fragmentProgram heatHaze.vfp
       fragmentMap 0  _currentRender
       fragmentMap 1  textures/sfx/vp1 // the normal map for distortion
   }
   {
       maskcolor
       map makealpha(textures/glass/glass1)
   }
   {
       blend gl_dst_alpha, gl_one
       maskalpha
       cubeMap env/gen2
       red     Parm0
       green   Parm1
       blue    Parm2
       texgen  reflect
   }
   {
       blend filter
       map textures/glass/outdoor_glass1fx
   }
}

 

This is a glass shader using the heat haze vertex program, I'm sure we don;t need to write our own. YOu could use those doom glass texture as well to experiment.

[BlackThief]

started to model the CLASSIC "Old Electric Wall Light" myself

 

ignore the rust texture - I have just began with it

Edited January 8, 2005 by BlackThief