WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!
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Also, for the above image, I'll be writing a tutorial in the near future about ssbumps, and using a 3d software to generate excellent quality ssbump maps from either a flat, 2D image via normal map, or sculpted/geometric meshes. SSBump Generator 5.3, while a nice software for what it provides, is shabby and useless compared to results of an ssbump rig in a 3d software. Valve's own built in command line-based ssbump generator also didn't provide any satisfactory results, and took nearly 3 times longer to generate than SSBumpGen 5.3. The usefulness of a tutorial like the one I'm talking about will hopefully be a much needed thing.
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You should use the mirrored version of those rocks , from what it looks like they aren't and they look a bit funny.
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Huh. I didn't know there was a mirrored version of the rocks, I should look harder lol.
Thanks for letting me know that.
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Does ssbump are just normal map with heightmap in blue channel or something else ?
And lemminnes I really like your building in the first screen
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Pool party baby, it was a cool party, cool pool party, la la la la.
If I can't bounce up and down on that diving board, you will have failed not just me, but the entire world.
Looks sweet.
The difference is in effect, mostly. Normal maps can give the illusion of depth, by means of highlighting areas of a normal map that 'pop' out along with directional shadows as determined by light sources. I like to describe ssbumps as a sort of pre-rendered ambient occlusion per-area as determined by light sources, and the given color directions of the map to create the illusion of depth.
I took this screenshot a while ago trying to figure out if I wanted normal maps or ssbumps for my world textures, and this is the result:
The ssbump is much more subtle, and the normal, while already pretty strong, is a little jarring and I ended up going with the ssbump--and also because you can use $seamless_scale, which I'll probably need a lot of inside caves in the project I'm working on.
If you ever want to know the extent of how much each kind of map is used, fly around goldrush or badwater with "mat_normalmaps 1" and take a look. I think you'll be surprised, I was. Here's just a small part of goldrush I took a screenshot of and marked all the ssbumps with a red x and all the normal maps with a blue x:
Edit: Supersandvich says seamless scale doesn't work in TF2, which if true is sad, because I haven't needed it yet, but I sure will. :*( Just like how I need refraction and selfillum to work together too. :**(
I took this screenshot a while ago trying to figure out if I wanted normal maps or ssbumps for my world textures, and this is the result:
The ssbump is much more subtle, and the normal, while already pretty strong, is a little jarring and I ended up going with the ssbump--and also because you can use $seamless_scale, which I'll probably need a lot of inside caves in the project I'm working on.
If you ever want to know the extent of how much each kind of map is used, fly around goldrush or badwater with "mat_normalmaps 1" and take a look. I think you'll be surprised, I was. Here's just a small part of goldrush I took a screenshot of and marked all the ssbumps with a red x and all the normal maps with a blue x:
Edit: Supersandvich says seamless scale doesn't work in TF2, which if true is sad, because I haven't needed it yet, but I sure will. :*( Just like how I need refraction and selfillum to work together too. :**(
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2nd point of a 2 CP A/D map. (Granary Theme)
my... "shits getting serious" map.
Red arrows are reds spawn
Blue are Blue's enterences into the area
Yellow circle is the point. its sitting upon a top of a pile of grain.
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