2009-11-06 snapshot (updated again and again...)

[Duckstream]

Possible to add to helmets? iv done my redbull fox v3 and would like to see it in normal mapping, but i cant figure how to add it? S;S

[Wes Wamsley]

ok the 11-7 update works now... WOW amazing thanks jlv!

I can\'t follow a thing you guys are talking about all i know is it looks fantastic haha.

[Yahama7]

Ive made a quick normal map outta dj's template.
Use it if you want.

[Duckstream]

only thing is i dont get all your saying, or... how do i make it work?
I just paste that to my personal folder or?
or place on the helmet?

[Yahama7]

paste to personal folder

[Garasaki]

Got mine working now.

See screenshot thread

[yzmxer608]

I have a few questions about the spec maps, I think I have a pretty good handle on everything else though. When there is a transparent area on the spec map, it uses the regular specular mapping from the game, and when it doesn't have 100% transparency it uses whatever RGB value you used?

[Yahama7]

i made some test with spec maps too and if you put alpha then the parts which you alphad out on the map will be like gloving...

[yzmxer608]

So what doesn't have alpha "blocks" the specularity from showing in game? I'm trying to see if you can just take the shading off of a bike, the use only the shading as a spec map and have it look right in game. Might be an easy way of making the bikes look better.

[Atown_Ottowa]

My driver info is:

Intel
Intel Cantiga
1.5.0 - Build 7.15.10.1518

My shaders dont work. My card doesnt support them?

[Duckstream]

Umm heres a normal map (or is it anyway close? i dont get how to make them but i tryed to make something like it)
Witch is a tire track, i was just thingkin it would be cool to normal them out too?
Possible Y/N ?

[Garasaki]

I was sort of wondering that too...normal maps on the tracks, like for ruts...

[ddmx]

One thing I think some of you are failing to realize, is that the shading templates need to be redone before you can make a legit normal map out of them. Either that or you need to bake the normal map in 3ds max or blender. I think you guys are missing the purpose. Since we now have full on shaders, the only parts that need to be faked with normal maps are the parts on a low def model that aren't modeled. The overall shadows and highlights should be taken off first. Get what I'm saying?

[Duckstream]

so you mean that the base shading isnt important and by that base you cant make a normal map?
You need a model with that righ? correct if im wrong:
So the model need to have the shadingin it ? like holes and stuff,
So then you do the normal for IT not for the shading of a template?

[Yahama7]

You use the shading in which you shade parts like bolts which are not modelled as a model. With that you make a low poly model look high poly.
The basic shading will be done by the shaders.