totally random texture thread

Been playing around with SSbump creation, a new method of Normal mapping for the Source engine. You can read about it here actually: http://%7boption%7d

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Nice, MrTwoVideoCards!

mind explaining us what this technique is about? And what difers it from the "default" normal map? (Tangent space?)

I know you linked the .PDF, but still...

From what I got by skimming it for a few seconds, it's normal mapping with self shadowing information on it. Cool that it costs no more texture memory or anything. Definitely gets an interesting effect.

And if I'm correct Left4Dead also uses SSbump maps.

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":3mmx3tu2]Nice, MrTwoVideoCards! mind explaining us what this technique is about? And what difers it from the "default" normal map? (Tangent space?)

I know you linked the .PDF, but still...

oh come on, it says it all in the pdf. it's even elaborated so that regular people can understand it.

yeah, I gave it a read through now. I guess I got spooked at first when I saw those mathematical expressions!

isn't it most basically a different blue-channel which doesn't hold any height information but an directional (up-down) ambient occlusion render of the surface? at least that's what I worked out from the pdf and the tf2 textures

A better example, with Jitter calculations, meaning it adds dirt effect to the ssbump. This is the ssbump example straight from the PDF, but generated with a different Tool.

As far as I know, Valve may release theirs sometime this Year, or next . But theirs is tons better.

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How are you generating these? Ive tried a few methods, but they've all had extremely unsatisfactory results, or been extremely long winded. I haven't seen results quite as strong as yours before.

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How are you generating these? Ive tried a few methods, but they've all had extremely unsatisfactory results, or been extremely long winded. I haven't seen results quite as strong as yours before.

In due time, hopefully once I get the method down to a simple version, I can write up a tutorial.

A couple of modelled textures for an UT3 project. Crits are welcome.

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Oh wow dude, those are absolutely awesome!

Are those ingame screenshots?

Can you explain the worflow to achieve this kind of results?

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":8cdgx4bl]Oh wow dude, those are absolutely awesome!Are those ingame screenshots?

Can you explain the worflow to achieve this kind of results?

Thanks No, they are renders from Maya.

On the workflow, basically i just lay out som low poly stuff in Maya then model it into high poly stuff in Mudbox. Then I take the highpoly stuff back into Maya and project as much info I need about the stuff (normals, ao, color etc) onto a plane. Then I take those images into photoshop and make them tile (cause they usually dont tile 100% when I get them from mudbox) and after that it's pretty much just making a diffuse and specular+gloss+whatever as always.

really nice nurb! especially like the ground one

trying to create higher res versions of philipk's textures that i use for my map:

original:

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my version:

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c&c are very much welcome

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really nice nurb! especially like the ground one

Thanks

rockdude86 You are much better off reworking that from scratch in the higher resolution. The original underneeth has just gotten blurry and the photomaterial you put on there only added grain and noise.

Made a quick one of that for you rockdude86 if you wanna use. Sadly I didn't have any wacom tho so...

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http://philipk.net/other/AA3_Templebrick1A.zip

That looks awesome

PhilipK knows his textures.. awesomely.

Looks cool Phil, but what is it exactly?