Shotgun's textures

[shotgun]

yup, still here. taken by freelance work, will be back in operational status shortly. if u have a task for me though lemme know.

[greebo]

Oh, that's cool - I just wanted to know whether you vanished or not. We've seen it happening many times before, so it's cool to see you're still around.

[shotgun]

Ok, I'm getting back on the TDM texturing track. Here's one for the morning, something for the richly decorated yet old and neglected mansion houses:

 

 

 

Download - stone_tile_starpod_incl_vars [updt. - 11/5]

[Tels]

Ok, I'm getting back on the TDM texturing track. Here's one for the morning, something for the richly decorated yet old and neglected mansion houses:

 

Stone_tile_starpod

 

Cool to see you back The texture looks like it as no normalmap, tho? Or is it supposed to be perfectly flat?

[shotgun]

Cool to see you back The texture looks like it as no normalmap, tho? Or is it supposed to be perfectly flat?

 

I enhanced it slightly and moved the lighting so it's more visible.

[Tels]

I enhanced it slightly and moved the lighting so it's more visible.

 

Cool, thanx! (Although I think it would have been better to post a new pic and leave the old, so one can see the difference. I viewed the first on yesterday on my laptop and the new on now on the CRT, so it is really hard to say how it changed

 

Anyway, do you have access to the mod to include the textures directly, or should someone from us handle this?

[shotgun]

Anyway, do you have access to the mod to include the textures directly, or should someone from us handle this?

 

Anuga was taking care of this so far, I rather naively pretend the paperwork doesn't exist (until the cops arrest me, basically). Here's a 256 Trim version. For some reason I'm not quite able to pin-point, it didn't come out very well.

 

I feel what we need is more texture sets for mappers to work with, filling more 'sets' and less stand-alones. Watcha think guys?

[SneaksieDave]

I feel what we need is more texture sets for mappers to work with, filling more 'sets' and less stand-alones.

This is precisely what we need, yep. Especially finished wood sets; right now we just have a bunch of different hued, different detail leveled, different patterned mishmash of standalone woods. Others too (stone trims are very limited) but especially the woods.

[Baddcog]

YES YES YES!!!

 

We are very lacking in 'texture sets'.

 

I'd like to see a full range.

 

Stone wall, same stone wall with dirt on bottom, same stone wall with drips at top (that could be made into a 3 story building, a two story, whatever.)

 

Same stone wall again but maybe some damage marks, chipped or missing blocks.

 

Same stones with trim along top and/or bottom.

 

Most games have stuff like this. We really don't.

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Nice tile tex there. Very fitting for an old manor.

[shotgun]

Oh, you mean it has to be the *same* stone wall? no cuz your post was somewhat ambiguous

Yes ok I'll do that. Is there a particular texture we have / I made that you'd like variations to?

 

I completely forgot to fix the trim version above. I'll do that tomorrow. I worked on this wooden.. pre-set (meaning, I'll trim it down to stand-alones to create a set). Still in-da-works.

 

[HappyCheeze]

Beautiful

[SneaksieDave]

I like the wood grains a lot. The top and the bottom strike me as odd though.

[Tels]

I like the wood grains a lot. The top and the bottom strike me as odd though.

 

Me likes the wood grain, and the top, it is unique. The bottom seems not yet finished

[Baddcog]

Seems he might paint in greyscale and multiply layers on top

 

Yeah, basically have one tiling stone wall tex. Tiles in ALL directions. (Base Tex)

 

Then make a variation that is dirty along bottom. This one only tiles horizontally because of the dirt along bottom. But for a tall wall you just put the base tex above it. Then they both look like one seamless vertical texture.

 

Then have another of the base tex, but put some drips down from top (not all the way down). You could then place this above the base to make the wall even taller, but appear to be one texture.

 

 

Obviously this is crappy and doesn't tile. But with this set you can stack textures to get a full range of effects on a wall and they all match and line up good. Either just use the base for 'clean walls' or use the drip (maybe in sewer), or stack like above but have 3 base tex vertically in the middle for a really tall wall.

 

Other variations could be a base tex with big stones along the bottom (like a foundation), or one with fancy trim along the top (roof). These would need different normal maps, but the dirty ones above would only need different diffuse maps.

 

This is good for big buildings like a castle where you want the entire place built out of the same stone, but you want character in different spots. It all matches but doesn't all look like one repeated tex.

 

It would actually be good to do like T2 tex. Baffords brick was yellow, but they also had the same bricks in blue.

 

Not sure, but we might also be able to add the drips or dirt with an overlay in a material. This can be tough though 'cause I'm not great with shaders and sometimes that can make the tex 'glow' or get brighter.Tels might be able to help more with that, he's pretty good with shaders.

[Baddcog]

Seems he might paint in greyscale and multiply layers on top

 

Yeah, basically have one tiling stone wall tex. Tiles in ALL directions. (Base Tex)

 

Then make a variation that is dirty along bottom. This one only tiles horizontally because of the dirt along bottom. But for a tall wall you just put the base tex above it. Then they both look like one seamless vertical texture.

 

Then have another of the base tex, but put some drips down from top (not all the way down). You could then place this above the base to make the wall even taller, but appear to be one texture.

 

 

Obviously this is crappy and doesn't tile. But with this set you can stack textures to get a full range of effects on a wall and they all match and line up good. Either just use the base for 'clean walls' or use the drip (maybe in sewer), or stack like above but have 3 base tex vertically in the middle for a really tall wall.

 

Other variations could be a base tex with big stones along the bottom (like a foundation), or one with fancy trim along the top (roof). These would need different normal maps, but the dirty ones above would only need different diffuse maps.

 

This is good for big buildings like a castle where you want the entire place built out of the same stone, but you want character in different spots. It all matches but doesn't all look like one repeated tex.

 

It would actually be good to do like T2 tex. Baffords brick was yellow, but they also had the same bricks in blue.

 

Not sure, but we might also be able to add the drips or dirt with an overlay in a material. This can be tough though 'cause I'm not great with shaders and sometimes that can make the tex 'glow' or get brighter.Tels might be able to help more with that, he's pretty good with shaders.

[Springheel]

Not sure, but we might also be able to add the drips or dirt with an overlay in a material

 

Yes, dirt can be done quite easily this way, using a blend modulate (IIRC) filter. Basically it darkens whatever is underneath, which is sufficient for dirt or stains.

 

It would be pretty straightforward to take an existing texture and make new shaders that blend our existing decals into it.

[Tels]

Yes, dirt can be done quite easily this way, using a blend modulate (IIRC) filter. Basically it darkens whatever is underneath, which is sufficient for dirt or stains.

 

It would be pretty straightforward to take an existing texture and make new shaders that blend our existing decals into it.

 

Had started to work on it, but the decals we had seemed to be all from D3 so I got sidetracked making new decals, and they look well..bad

 

If some artist makes a small set of decent decals for walls, we can easily create "_dirty" versions of bricks, woods etc.

[shotgun]

If some artist makes a small set of decent decals for walls, we can easily create "_dirty" versions of bricks, woods etc.

 

What's that? alpha channeled stains, basically?

I think in some instances decals work, when they are really superficial. Water streaming down on a surface is a good example, but anything more integrated, like mud or dirt, I believe should be diffused for best looks.

 

Badcog: I getcha, I'll make such variations once I'm done with the current wood set. If there is a specific texture you want variations to - tell me, or I'll either make a new one or pick-up an existing one. Btw, the greyscale is the hightmap initially laid out.

 

Looking at it now I think I over-did the normals, the geometry design is more suitable for actual map geometry than normals, it just doesn't hold too well. Will know better for next time!

 

 

 

Download - wood_trio.incl.vars.WinAll.working-PARADiGM [updt. - 11/5]

 

Next I'll disassemble the parts for smaller trims as we talked.

[Springheel]

If some artist makes a small set of decent decals for walls, we can easily create "_dirty" versions of bricks, woods etc.

 

Why would we make new ones when the D3 ones work perfectly well? (though there are at least a dozen ones in the our decal folder as well)

[Flanders]

yeah, just checked. There are 23 useful dirt/stain decals in doom 3 plus the ones in tdm, I think there are other textures we need more.

[Flanders]

Now that I think of it. A decal that makes surfaces look fungi might be useful. That might eliminate the need of making special fungi textures like the ones in the wood tex folder.

[shotgun]

Updated the wood_trio set (scroll above) and the stone_tile_starpod (scroll really above, like top of page) with size variations (download links included). I wish to come up with more 'props' to go along, matching carpet / tapestry / etc.

 

I'll see to this and then take a rock texture and start adding the moss / mud / etc. variations. Actually I was tinkering with this earlier - mostly testing out some normals -- here's a really early WIP.

 

[Dram]

That rock texture looks awesome....and it's a wip??

[shotgun]

That rock texture looks awesome....and it's a wip??

 

 

Yes it was just thrown together ::

the cracks red underlight = kill

the cracks consistency = randomize (larger blocks, varied)

color adjustments

sharper normals

specmap

seams

will do it later

 

Here are a carpet and a painting I thought would go along with the wood_trio set. Does this work guys? any suggestions? other 'props' you think I should tag along?

 

[Crispy]

Nice stuff. Where's that painting from?