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Duke3D HRP: new/updated art assets thread  "Post and discuss new or updated textures/models for the HRP here"

User is offline   The Commander 

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#31

Yeah, I can't seem to them quite as good as the ones that have been done so far. But im giving it a go any how for learning for future mod's etc.

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This post has been edited by The Commander: 14 May 2009 - 06:47 AM

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User is offline   Parkar 

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#32

View PostThe Commander, on May 14 2009, 04:45 PM, said:

Yeah, I can't seem to them quite as good as the ones that have been done so far. But im giving it a go any how for learning for future mod's etc.

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Note: That you don't need to have a specular map to get secularity. The one you posted here seems to just be a black and white version of the diffuse so the only thing it will do is darken the highlight in the already dark spots. Only time it should be needed is if different parts of the texture need different power and scale values to look right. For instance when the texture consists of two different materials and the diffuse does not supply you with the necessary difference. A perfect example is if you have a dark piece of metal and bright cloth. This one would tend to need a specular map where the cloth is darker and the metal brighter. The cloth should also have a low alpha value to make the specular size bigger then on the shiny metal. All this together with tweaking the specular power and scale values should give you metal with small bright highlights and cloth with bigger and darker highlights.
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User is offline   Tea Monster 

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#33

There are two schools of thought on the web. One says that you can only get decent results from building an actuall 3D model and baking off the normals. I personally think we are going to be waiting a long time for an HRP update if that were the case!

The other view is that you can fudge it or fake it by making a height map (black is farther away from the camera, white is closer) and then feeding it through something like Crazy Bump, PS or GIMP to get your normal map.

The problem with feeding ready made texture images through an automated normal mapping process is that the software just basically often gets it wrong. Usually it goes by the simpler the image, the better the results.

I'm not an expert in this but from what I've seen, it looks like we are going to be using a mixture of different stuff to get the results.

This post has been edited by Tea Monster: 14 May 2009 - 12:14 PM

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User is offline   Hendricks266 

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  #34

It seems I got it wrong. Whoever made the original renders did them incorrectly. Compare the highres tiles with the originals. comparison GIFs, set at the exact same speed:

Original HRP Order | 8-bit | Correct HRP Order
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1) They must be centered
2) They must be exactly 4x the original resolution
3) There must be no empty space
4) The shots must be at these EXACT angles: 0°, 22.5°, 45°, 67.5°, 90°, 112.5°, 135° (that's 7 frames looping)
5) Keep them RGB please, keep palettes out of HRP work.

This post has been edited by Hendricks266: 15 May 2009 - 05:00 PM

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User is offline   NightFright 

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#35

Well, what's right now? The edited version you posted? According to your last post, it seems that way. At least changed version it looks fine ingame.
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User is offline   Mia Max 

#36

I really don't know if I'm doing it right, but here is my first try of tile0000.

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I couldn't test it ingame, but if this is correct I could have found a easy way to make normalmaps.

EDIT:
Here's another example:

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I know there are still many little fields that still have to be removed, but it's only experimental.

I've made another one:

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It's not finished, but it looks already 3d.

I like playing around with normalmaps :P

This post has been edited by Mia Max: 15 May 2009 - 03:31 PM

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User is offline   Danukem 

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#37

View PostNightFright, on May 15 2009, 12:15 PM, said:

Well, what's right now? The edited version you posted? According to your last post, it seems that way. At least changed version it looks fine ingame.


Do you notice how the HRP versiondoes not animate smoothly even when the order is correct? I'm guessing that's because it fails one or more of those tests he listed.
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User is offline   Tea Monster 

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#38

If you look at the animation, it 'jumps' as if a frame is missing.
Thats apart from the fact that the specular on the model is way under what it should be.
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User is offline   Hendricks266 

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This post has been edited by Hendricks266: 15 May 2009 - 05:07 PM

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User is offline   Tea Monster 

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#40

If it were me, I'd just redo the damn thing.
This would probably look terrible, but you could try taking the next frame up from the ones that are missing, copy them and just shink them widthways to replace the missing tiles.

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Yeah, thats going to look terrible. Who did the original?
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User is offline   The Commander 

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#41

I always thought there was something wrong with that spinning nuke icon, after playing with the HRP and then pausing/quitting to the main menu, the icon would display a random tile near the end of the animation.
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#42

I thought I would post another higher resolution version of one of my older textures. This one is 8x bigger than the original texture, the one in the HRP is only 4x. I'll post more when I can. :P

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This post has been edited by Hectic-Zombie: 15 May 2009 - 10:03 PM

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User is offline   Mark 

#43

Here are textures 443 and 959
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User is offline   Roma Loom 

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View PostMia Max, on May 15 2009, 11:03 PM, said:

I really don't know if I'm doing it right, but here is my first try of tile0000.

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Hey there. Such textures as stones, asphalt, bricks etc don't need any handwork at all (in many cases). Either it's a job for CrazyBump or NVidia normal map filter or the plug for the GIPM here.

You normal map (without heightmap) should look like this:
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This post has been edited by Roma Loom: 16 May 2009 - 07:42 AM

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User is offline   Parkar 

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#45

View PostMia Max, on May 15 2009, 10:03 PM, said:

EDIT:
Here's another example:

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I know there are still many little fields that still have to be removed, but it's only experimental.


Not sure what techniqe you are using but it doesn't look quiet right. It should look more like this (using crazybump and some image edting).

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Also just realised that this texture actually needs redoing as the original looks more like flat tiles then bumpy rough stones.

This post has been edited by Parkar: 16 May 2009 - 05:49 AM

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User is offline   Mia Max 

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View PostParkar, on May 16 2009, 03:48 PM, said:

Not sure what techniqe you are using but it doesn't look quiet right. It should look more like this (using crazybump and some image edting).

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Also just realised that this texture actually needs redoing as the original looks more like flat tiles then bumpy rough stones.


I cleaned the surfaces because I thought that it would look too bumpy. I did the same with tile0000, but that was my first try.
I think I did a quite good job on tile0812.
Don't you think that most tiles just look too rough-textured without handwork?

Also most tiles have already light and shadows. When I've made the normalmaps without handwork, Gimp wrongly defined lighter parts higher than the dark parts. @Roma Loom: That's why I think tile0000 doesn't look right.

This post has been edited by Mia Max: 16 May 2009 - 06:50 AM

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User is offline   Roma Loom 

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#47

I've made 2 shots ingame with grey diffuse to see the normal clearly:
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This post has been edited by Roma Loom: 17 May 2009 - 09:54 PM

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User is offline   Parkar 

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View PostMia Max, on May 16 2009, 04:48 PM, said:

I cleaned the surfaces because I thought that it would look too bumpy. I did the same with tile0000, but that was my first try.
I think I did a quite good job on tile0812.
Don't you think that most tiles just look too rough-textured without handwork?

Also most tiles have already light and shadows. When I've made the normalmaps without handwork, Gimp wrongly defined lighter parts higher than the dark parts. @Roma Loom: That's why I think tile0000 doesn't look right.


I think it looks just fine.

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User is offline   Mia Max 

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View PostRoma Loom, on May 16 2009, 05:19 PM, said:

I've made 2 shots ingame with grey diffuse to see the normal clearly:
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View PostParkar, on May 16 2009, 06:39 PM, said:

I think it looks just fine.

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Okey, you are totally right!
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User is offline   ReaperTK 

#50

I checked the TODO list and didn't see anything about this issue.
The SLOTDOOR switch (tile 132) HRP model is reversed The off position should be to the left. Here's a comparison.
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I also noticed that all of the other switches have a transition animation whereas this one just changes states. Also, the entire lever isn't drawn (the top and back portion when in the off position).
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User is offline   TerminX 

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  #51

None of the switches actually have an animation, it just looks that way because of EDuke32's badass frame interpolation feature. :P
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User is offline   chicken 

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#52

Can this be switched off for a single model (not all)?
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User is offline   NightFright 

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#53

The switch only has two states like TX wrote: ON and OFF. That's two frames. You can hardly speak of "animation" there. :P

Anyway, if you want to criticize anything regarding that switch, I'd rather say it's the missing "border" you can see on the original sprite. But besides that...
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User is offline   Master Fibbles 

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#54

No, he is right, it is backwards and that is a problem. One would think that that is something the artist would have been able to check.
It is an easy fix though...change the skin a little and reverse the frames.
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User is offline   Parkar 

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#55

View PostMr.Flibble, on May 20 2009, 02:33 PM, said:

No, he is right, it is backwards and that is a problem. One would think that that is something the artist would have been able to check.
It is an easy fix though...change the skin a little and reverse the frames.


I made that and never noticed it before. it's a simple thing to fix, just mirror the model. The model will probably get remade now anyway though.
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User is offline   escapist 

#56

View PostParkar, on May 20 2009, 06:32 AM, said:

.... The model will probably get remade now anyway though.


.... :P Really?! ALL the models? :P
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User is offline   Master Fibbles 

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#57

he is talking about the one switch.
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User is offline   escapist 

#58

:P
well, just wondering...
how much of the current HRP will have to be remade?
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User is offline   Tea Monster 

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#59

View Postescapist, on May 20 2009, 04:22 PM, said:

:P
well, just wondering...
how much of the current HRP will have to be remade?


Quite a few of them, if not most of them. Nobody has done a head count yet. Way too early for that.
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User is offline   NightFright 

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#60

That was actually the main reason why the Polymer thing was kept under wraps for so long. If it had become public large parts of HRP contents would need to be recreated, some guys maybe might have lost their motivation to go on "old-style". But let's just wait till the new engine is finished before speculating too much.

This post has been edited by NightFright: 21 May 2009 - 09:57 AM

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