[Tea Monster]

A number of the P-HRP texture artists are very new to normal and parallax map creation. A few of them have a bit of modelling experience though. So I've volunteered to make a quick tut on how to make a model version of an existing texture and bake a parallax map for said texture.

Here is a rough version. I've got to pretty it up a bit, but should get you going. Can you take a look and see if it describes everything that you need to know to do this.

ONE BIG POINT: This is NOT a modelling tut! I've included some basic stuff about subdivision modelling and how to set it up in Blender, but I can't really cover the whole Subsurf modelling thing in detail. Also, you could render a diffuse out using this model, but you would need to apply textures and set up lights and various texture maps - something that other tuts have covered properly already.

Again, the tut was requested for Blender 2.5 so that is what I'm using here. Please keep in mind that 2.5 is alpha and save often.

So, could the texture artists take a look at this and see if there is anything vital I've missed or anything else that needs more explanation.

Once everything is sorted out I'll post a finished version into the resources thread.

http://www.filedropp...rtexturetutbeta

[Plagman]

After 10 tries I finally managed to get your PDF. Attaching it here since Filedropper is apparently the worst site ever.

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[Plagman]

Great work! It's great that you stressed that sharp edges are bad.

I think "everything should be on the same plain" should be "same plane" instead, no?
Would it be possible to extend that tutorial all the way to the final in-game result? Eg. explain the DEF syntax, how to find the right parallax values using the override cvars, etc? Maybe this should be a separate document to keep the baking tut non-duke specific.

[Tea Monster]

Plagman, on Jun 9 2010, 08:48 PM, said:

Great work! It's great that you stressed that sharp edges are bad.

I think "everything should be on the same plain" should be "same plane" instead, no?
Would it be possible to extend that tutorial all the way to the final in-game result? Eg. explain the DEF syntax, how to find the right parallax values using the override cvars, etc? Maybe this should be a separate document to keep the baking tut non-duke specific.

Thanks. I think I might stress that a bit more about the soft shapes.

I could do a bit about def files and tag it on the end.

Yeah, that was a typo.

What I'd like is for one of the current texture artists to see if it helps them, and more specifically, if there is anything required to make it more understandable.

[Spiker]

Pretty good tut Tea Monster. Even a complete noob could follow it So are you planning to open a blenderguru-like site?

[Tea Monster]

LOL, I actually had produced a tut on how to use Plagman's MD3 exporter, so that would be two, so technically I could open a site! ( )

I used to have a site with all my Duke models on it and a progress thing on what I was working on. It's kind of fallen by the wayside.

[fgsfds]

What am i doing wrong?

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[Tea Monster]

I found out what the problem was. I needed to add a 'composite' node and have that as one of the outputs. Then, when I hit 'Render' it dropped the file. I've added a viewer window on this example, but you don't really need it.
Also, the file created had a "0001" on the end.



One big thing - If you are using Blender 2.57 upwards - you need to drop the two channel swap nodes. They 'fixed' that in 2.57.

Thanks for the feedback.

I might do a defs thing with it.

[fgsfds]

Thanks. And one more question.

How to set right parallaxbias and parallaxscale values in def?

[Tea Monster]

empy, on 18 May 2011 - 05:45 AM, said:

Thanks. And one more question.

How to set right parallaxbias and parallaxscale values in def?

I think you need to just try it out and see what you get. I'd choose a similar tile and copy the p/p line from that and use that as a jumping-off point. From there, adjust till it looks right.