Shaders / Specular Maps

[Dogmatic]

I think hes talking about VMT code.

Heres how you make things shiny--

"VertexLitGeneric"

{

"$baseTexture" "foldername/texturename"

"$envmap" "env_cubemap"

"$envmaptint" "[ .36 .36 .30 ]"

"$envmapconstrast" "1"

"$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" 1

}

I dont know what the hell you other guys are talking about.

Any other texturing questions should be directed here - http://www.hl2world.com/wiki/index.php/ ... :Texturing

[Zacker]

How was that not constructive.:roll: He clearly ask how to create shaders.

Didn't ask how to use them. So If he didn't get the hint. He needs to learn c.

C is for sure not the language to learn for shaders, you are maybe thinking of Cg?

afaik, shaders are written in hlsl, half-life shader language. i think theres also cg, which is nvidias shader language.

Yes shaders can be written in HLSL, but it stands for High Level Shader Language:)

[InsaneSingingBlender]

oh, i thought i heard half-life shader language somewhere, thanks for the correction

[kleinluka]

What do you mean, other way around

dark = more specular

thats weird and doesnt make any sense

damn valve. everybody else does it right

[Pericolos0]

yus it confuses me every time ;(

[kleinluka]

do you have a sample specular map from valve anywhere?

I'd like to see it

[Pericolos0]

im made this one

for this texture

[kleinluka]

that almost looks like an opacity map to me o_O

[InsaneSingingBlender]

awesome texture peri

[U37]

Hey Peri, how do you create specular maps for Source? Take selections that are relevant, and simply lower the contrast and desaturate?

[mikezilla]

holy hell peri when did you get so good and do you have a portfolio?

[Campaignjunkie]

I'm pretty sure lighter = shinier. Here's an example of a texture I did (although it's not anywhere near as great as Peri's):

I saved the specular as an alpha channel in the normal map. It works great in-game.

[st0lve]

holy hell peri when did you get so good and do you have a portfolio?

I smell that mike wants you.

peri go update ur folio.

[Pericolos0]

I'm pretty sure lighter = shinier. Here's an example of a texture I did (although it's not anywhere near as great as Peri's):

I saved the specular as an alpha channel in the normal map. It works great in-game.

hmm i saved mine as an alpha channel in the diffuse map and it works fine too ;o

maybe it's different when you save it with the normal map.

holy hell peri when did you get so good and do you have a portfolio?

i should really finish off my portfolio site

Hey Peri, how do you create specular maps for Source? Take selections that are relevant, and simply lower the contrast and desaturate?

yeah thats pretty much what i did with that texture

[FrieChamp]

mmmh I luv the peri~~~