followed some tutorial and this is what i got
some kind of hard ground texture.

regular texture


bump map if it works right :P i might need to invert it

it's very easy to see the repetition. I can see repetition in the really dark layer, the meduim gray, and the light. Try working with it more by reducing the opacity, and making some more similar layers.

mind if I ingame this then release it while giving you credit for it?

I already ingamed it but sure why not. I made some others that werent as blobby but they looked too round ingame.
I put a border on this to make it 400x400 when I converted to sprite.

Oh, also I gave it alpha, and made it more bluish, using curves for more contrast so it looked better ingame. Alpha blended decals are full bright, that works well with grunt blood... Better than component max.

But there is one annoying bug. It doesn't seem to spill over onto other triangles.
Edited by Alpha Series on May 16, 2010 at 01:26 AM

That thing reminded me more of a plasma bolt exploding on contact than blood.

Regular blood...

This one is meant to be blended with subtraction, so it's inverted.


This one is meant to be blended with multiplication, so it has a white background.


It's meant to look sprayed on.

I prefer subtract because as it overlaps it gets darker.

My attempt at dirt.
I still have the layers so I can change most anything that is in need of changing.


Also, to test the decals... I applied them overlapped on the left, alone on the right, to my dirt texture. I used multiply up top, and subtract below.

Edited by Alpha Series on May 16, 2010 at 04:51 PM

What do you think I should change?
Every different color you see should be in it's own layer, excluding shades of the same color..

Texture, in the realm of game design, refers to a set of data that creates an image to be used in shaders.

No... In most cases it's called texture.
Halo is an exception.
.bmp is an exception.

Fallout 3, it's a .DDS texture. Half-life, it's a .VTF texture. (Valve Texture File)

If you want to get technical, a texture can be an Albedo or Diffuse. This includes the pixels that are modified by the shader and the other maps. It is the base of the map.

Normal maps/bumpmaps are textures which modulate light.

Du/Dv maps are an old method (DX8) of making refractions. Normal maps have been adapted for this.

There are many other forms of textures. A lot of them are engine specific. For example, multipurpose maps are used in halo for several functions. In the source engine, they are separated into masks such as self illumination masks, specular masks, etc. Some are baked in as alpha maps for the Albedo or the Normal map...

Textures are also referred to as maps, but that gets confusing because of playable maps.

In my experience, very few engines refer to them as bitmaps. Although, technically they are a map of bits...
Edited by Alpha Series on May 16, 2010 at 10:31 PM

Anyone have a good cliff texture? I'm filling my bloodgulch with hi-res textures

You, stop.


http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/32/43/324337_324337.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_normal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmap
(people call them textures because we refer to texture in real life to the surface properties of a specific material.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo
"The albedo of an object is a measure of how strongly it reflects light" We use terms such as glossiness and specular now-a-days. Diffuse is the surface of an object when light is not a factor of its color. A lit model is done by multiplying the diffuse with its lighting. Which is why people multiply ambient occlusion maps over there color maps.

etc etc








hi
Edited by DEEhunter on May 17, 2010 at 08:54 PM

Take it to pm's , or drop it.
please

You referring to Maniac?

floyd.

actually someone should put a thread for this because the last couple days it has seemed to escalate on all the threads.

I keep coming to this thread hoping someone has posted another useful texture, only to leave shaking my head. I do like the textures that are here though :)

What were you looking for?
What style?

i too am looking for a good bloodgulch wall texture. i got the ground taken care of though ;)

Pretty much any detailed/ hi-res ground textures would be appreciated. Nothing special really, just something better looking than default.

Edited by lil_bankhead on May 22, 2010 at 01:03 AM

Scratches should be uneven also no patterns.

who wants to model a paper bag?

Get those in-game.
Do it now.

It doesn't even tile.

here is a rar of the actual .bitmap cubemaps ready to use.
http://www.filefront.com/16699159/maniac_cubes.rar

is that top one like for a scope or something if you are in a forest? Looks like trees in that one.

what's the command for building the cubemaps in tool?I tried tool bitmap but it says TIFF file doesn't exist.

sorry I'm stupid but still

on XP.....
Go to start --> RUN
type in CMD
click OK

In the DOS window, type:

cd C:\program files\microsoft games\halo custom edition\

(or where ever you installed halo CE. Make sure you use \back slashes\)
then type

tool bitmap cubemapdirectory\cubemapfile

You save your cubemap somewhere in halo custom edition/data... IE: halo ce/data/cubemaps....

So an example would be....

tool bitmap cubemaps\default_blue

At first it won't work properly. You have to load the new file in guerilla and change the type to "cube maps". Then enter the tool line again.
Edited by Alpha Series on Jun 9, 2010 at 07:14 PM

Hmm maybe this is a better place to ask this than the thread I made.

failed to add bitmap to group tag resize failed

does this mean the bitmap size is too big?

Or here better question yet, is there a different file type I can save to that compresses better?

Edited by eliteslasher on Jun 9, 2010 at 07:43 PM

i did
http://www.filefront.com/16699159/maniac_cubes.rar/

Great textures all. Quick question, as this is a texture-based thread. I have a predesigned map in gmax right now...it's almost done, but I just s--t myself when I realized that I didn't design my map around a bitmap because I was hoping I could model my map, then somehow construct a bitmap that looked nice. I have a few crash sites, so naturally I want to darken those areas up, and I have many, many cliffs, and I'd like to blend the cliff face with the grassy terrain that surrounds them, instead of assigning IDs and having it look sudden (cliff, cliff, cliff, cliff WHOA grass). Not to mention I'd like to add some splashes of browns here and there, to break things up, in addition to making dirt paths.

Is there any way I can make a bitmap that fits my map or do I have to ID all the faces with individual bitmaps (aka improvise)?

ground maps.

Pretty crappy, but ehh.

Edited by Malevolence on Jun 14, 2010 at 02:47 AM

Is that the earth in the process of exploding?

No , it's obviously the earth growing hair.