Posts by PhilipK

Well, easiest way IMO is to just create a sphere, flip the faces and delete the underside so it is half a sphere.

Top down- Planar map it and then go into Unwrap editor and Relax the UVs.

Then simply export it as a regular mesh and import it as a static mesh in UDK. You can then set stuff like no shadow casting or collision on that object.

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Planar mapping the object will give you no seams automatically, but it can be tough if you want to paint in a city skyline or something at the horizon. Then you'd probably want to split up the UV into a side strip where you just paint your city stuff on a horizontal texture and then maybe only have half of the half sphere's top part planar mapped top down.

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nice! New videos looks awesome!

Damn, thanks man! I'll add that download to my posts as well, very appreciated!

Thanks!

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Awesome as hell Philip but I miss some extra such as a wireframe view between the mesh in max and the one in UE3 and the flat geometry in UE3...

Ah yeah, good points. I'll see if I can update that soon, thanks.

Looks really cool! Nice job in such a short time

Damn, that looks sweet. Nice with some colors.

Only crit I'd have is that the signs do not seem to emit any light, I think you could benefit by having a bit darker ambient and let them illuminate the scene more. Also it seems some models are a bit off in lighting.

Otherwise, kickass stuff!

Thanks guys!

Yeah it's a nice addition Mino. I think I mentioned it in the tutorial, tho I didn't really show howto do that in Max.

But yeah it can be really nice as you said to get a base up with that and then handpaint/fix up the rest by hand.

Thx!

I see with the specs Hmm I really think the old one has way too much spec.. But I may have went overboard with using lower ones on the new.. It's really hard to tweak for a general purpose as they are all recieving cubemaps. If you want to you can always do a search and replace in all vmts on this:

"$envmaptint" "[0.35 0.35 0.35]" If you instead use 1 1 1 or just remove the whole line it should give you a really different result.

Hi again.

I just finished up my second tutorial on the modular subject: Modular rocks (and other more organic stuff).

This is a bit more step by step but I tried to keep it as general as possible so you should be able to apply it on more things.

Anyway, hope it may be useful!

http://philipk.net/tutorials/modular_ro ... rocks.html

ty!

I reuploaded the source version now with compressed normals. The ingame difference was indeed minor. Wouldn't really matter much unless you've got something extremely clean, that also have a lot of subtle gradients in the normals.

Nice stuff! Looks interesting

Really like the environments as well

thx guys.

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Are uncompressed normal maps really worth the memory? There are some 5 mb VTFs here.

About that I was very unsure about going that way with it. I may as well just compres it with DXT5 tbh. I think the loss will be minimal espcially since I dont really have anything critical in terms of beveling or perfect gradients in the normal. So that is a good point.

On the other hand tex memory is a bit less of a problem nowdays. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't give a shit about older PCs etc when building stuff. So yeah, I think it might be a good idea just reexporting those with DXT5 compression and it'd minimized the file size significantly.

Thanks man. Brought up a good point there.

thx released it now: viewtopic.php?f=61&t=15428

Here is the texture set I was set to release today.

It is basically revamped versions of old NS textures I made a long time ago ((most) not used at all in NS anymore and I have clearance to release this).

I tried keeping a theme of mostly whiteish, blackish and yellow. There are also number and letter decals included.

I decided to release one HL2 Source version and one with just pure .TGAs for anyone to use as they want.

The Source set contains 98 materials.

DOWNLOADS:

Source version: http://philipk.net/portfolio/textures/pk02_source.zip

TGA version: http://philipk.net/portfolio/textures/pk02_tga.zip

Image of a few ones in the set:

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Hope there may be some people finding this useful

Yes, most are old ns stuff

Don't worry I asked Cory about it tho.

Some of them are actually originally older than my PK01 set

I know this isn't really level...

It's a selection of a set I should have out on saturday hopefully. It's tweaked versions of old textures I had, this pack will only be some of all ones I had with the same "style", there are just too many useless ones to make it worth updating them. Think the set may land on 70-80 textures or something like that.

And yes, I know texture packs aren't that cool anymore, but better get it out than just have them rotten away on my hdd I guess... may be something useful to find perhaps. Could also probably be used as base for some simpler meshes.

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Cosy, really reminds me of Quake 2 (in a good way)

Ah yes I saw those pics and even better, the video a couple of days ago. Fantastic stuff Rob! It's really impressive, especially in motion

Nice scores there! I'm a bit interested in checking this out. Just have a bit too many other games to finish atm.. but after that