Striker
Created 13 years ago2010-12-28 20:20:21 UTC by
Striker
$basetexture test_textures\ground_test_texture
$surfaceprop gravel
$bumpmap test_textures\ground_test_texture_normal
$ssbump
$envmap env_cubemapmanipulate source materialsThis is where I stopped. You can't mind control source materials, they're just a bunch of 0s and 1s that make pixels, and the pixels make colors, and the colors make a fake texture on a computer. It's really advanced stuff to manipulate those, so I'm just gonna step back.
I'm not entirely sure I see what the problem is. It's rendering correctly, isn't it?I mean, look at this:
Gray scale the image and mess with the contrast to get a more defined bump map. That's how I do it but I use Photoshop's normal map plugin.Photoshop normal map plugin? Hmm... I used the VTFedit tool to do this. Btw, Archie, if you're not using this what are you using? I read something about scripting this on the valve wiki. Don't tell me you are really that hard-core lol.
If you want more depth, you can change the height map scale from the default value of 2 after picking an image to import.How can I do that?
$ssbump^^ Problem.
How can I do that?
And Urby, I think I understand what you're saying. But I still need more info about that normal map plugin smile - :). (btw is there one available for GIMP ?)I believe it works similar to the VTFEdit tool. I've never used VTFEdit to make normal maps so I'm not the best judge.
Furthermore, the reflection mask for textures utilizing normal maps is located in the alpha channel of the normal map. I'm not certain if that is ignored if no alpha channel is saved in the normal map, but you may want to try adding just a completely white alpha channel to the normal map, and adding "$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" to the VMT somewhere.It's ignored if there is no alpha and you're not using the $normalmapalphaenvmapmask parameter. You can define an external specular mask with $envmapmask. The only caveat is that $envmapmask doesn't work on model materials that also use $bumpmap and so you have to put your spec mask in the alpha channel of the normal map to get them to work on models.
Well, you could try to carve out some of them and then set them to seperate heights on a scale to 1-3 so that it looks jagged.
Dimbark, it's time to stop posting.
"$basetexture" "test_textures\brickorange"
"$surfaceprop" "brick"
"$bumpmap" "test_textures\brickorange_envbump_map"
$envmap env_cubemap
"$envmaptint" "[ 0.7 0.7 0.7 ]"
"$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" "1"
//"$parallaxmap" "brickorange_heightmap"//"$parallaxmapscale" "0.08"Rabid, CrazyBump costs money. VTFedit is an all-in-one, and it's free .It's free, you don't have to buy a license.
The effect shown ingame is just what's being caused by your spec map. The white bricks are really white which means they're going to be very shiny.But the most shiny part are the unseen bricks!
It's free, you don't have to buy a license.You mean the demo version is okay?
"LightmappedGeneric"First of all, you've told your normal map to also act as a specular map. That's what $normalmapalphaenvmapmask does, so just take that line out all together.
{
"$basetexture" "test_textures\brickorange"
"$surfaceprop" "brick"
"$bumpmap" "test_textures\brickorange_envbump_map"
$envmap env_cubemap
"$envmaptint" "[ 0.7 0.7 0.7 ]"
"$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" "1"
//"$parallaxmap" "brickorange_heightmap"
//"$parallaxmapscale" "0.08"
}
You mean the demo version is okay?Should work just fine.
First of all, you've told your normal map to also act as a specular map. That's what $normalmapalphaenvmapmask does, so just take that line out all together.No, it tells the material that the specular mask is stored in the alpha channel of the normal map. In this event the specular mask generally has to be inverted because it's in the alpha channel. You can either use an external spec mask ($envmapmask), a spec mask in the alpha channel of the normal ($normalmapalphaenvmapmask) or a spec mask in the alpha channel of the diffuse texture ($basealphaenvmapmask). $envmap defines the particular reflection map to use; in most instances you want env_cubemap because it will use the nearest cubemap as a reflection source.
