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Specular Tex issue

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aeonios
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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err.. well, did I manage to fix it? :|
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zoggop
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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Ya, the metal spots are shiny now. It's pretty subtle b/c of the lighting angle and the fact that the heightmap is smooth & flat where the metal spots are (only one angle to glint).
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aeonios
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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awesome, thanks.
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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smooth & flat where the metal spots are (only one angle to glint).
... this is where you get normals :)
aeonios
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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The new skybox sets the sun directly overhead, which may help. :P

Normals would probably be pretty complicated and I don't think they'd have the effect you expect, but maybe.
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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i can confirm normals do have that effect. i once tried it:
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qray
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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aeonios wrote:Normals would probably be pretty complicated ...
Quick'n'dirty/poor-mans approach to normals: there's a Gimp plugin which converts greyscale image to normal map. If you just want to apply to metal spots, this might be an easy and quick solution...

And now I wait for the Blender users to hit me :wink:
aeonios
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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qray wrote:
aeonios wrote:Normals would probably be pretty complicated ...
Quick'n'dirty/poor-mans approach to normals: there's a Gimp plugin which converts greyscale image to normal map. If you just want to apply to metal spots, this might be an easy and quick solution...

And now I wait for the Blender users to hit me :wink:
I think I would still take easy and quick over blender as long as easy and quick works well enough. :P

After taking a look at it it seems like it should be more than sufficient. I threw together a dev version in only a couple minutes and it was really easy:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7k9m92z248isb ... 4.sd7?dl=0

Now I just need some confirmation screenshots and I think this map should be about finalized.
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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With the current normal map:
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A bit on the dark side (normals are quite strong) - even when chaging viewing angle.

So I quickly tested with 50% tranparency on the normal map:
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aeonios
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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hmm, that dark appearance most likely means the height contrast for the normals are too high. I was going based on the 3D preview in gimp, but it seems in game uses a different scaling.

I made up a new normal map with different settings. I'm linking the normal map only so you can just plug that in instead of downloading the whole map again:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sq2r6xbi01wgp ... s.png?dl=0
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qray
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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New screenshot with the new normalmap file:
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BTW: the slight 3D effect of the normals looks nice when changing viewing angle.
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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I figured it would. :)

That's still a bit dark though. I think when I figure out the proper scaling factor I'll post it on the wiki for future reference.

Here's the next version of the normals, using 2.0 scaling instead of 3.0:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sq2r6xbi01wgp ... s.png?dl=0
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qray
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Get 404 when trying to download. You still need a screenshot?
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Filename says "specmap.png" :wink:
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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better late than never :wink:
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aeonios
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Re: Specular Tex issue

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hmn, thanks for the help so far, but I ended up buying a gfx card so I can do this stuff myself. When I get that set up I think what I'm gonna do is try to make a normalmap for the entire diffuse instead of just the metal spots. I'm thinking that might look ridiculously awesome. :P
Orfelius
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Re: Specular Tex issue

Post by Orfelius »

These metal spots with normals look like 10 times better than without normal mapping :shock:
ME WANT

Also all things considered, I don't think this kind of metal spot indication is very fitting for your map :|
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smoth
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Re: Specular Tex issue

Post by smoth »

Relying on normal maps causes issues when you are doing larger or oblong maps. why not make a neutral, nondamagable, always visible unit with a better normal map?
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