YakZSmelk's Powerhouse-ish Modular Wall Set


Diffuse Texture [Specular as Alpha]


Normal Texture [Specular as Alpha]


Screenshot


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The set can be downloaded here;
Rapidshare:
https://rapidshare.com/files/3712916779/YakPHWallSet.zip
or
MediaFire;
http://www.mediafire.com/file/pccam9plcaj8ppv/YakPHWallSet.zip

Includes;
2 - 1k Textures
1 - Straight Wall Model
9 - Various Curved Wall Models
1 - End Cap/Column Model

All of the pieces are modular so should snap together without and issue.

Import .OBJ file into the scene.
Delete any unnecessary faces and just weld the corresponding vertices.

These are free of charge! So if you use them please give due credit.
Anyway I hope you guys enjoy them and I'll get too see a cool map or two take advantage of them.

If there's any issues with the download please let me know. Also I'll bump this is I do any variations for the texutres which I'm planning on doing a few.


Edited by YakZSmelk on Jun 23, 2011 at 02:00 AM
Edited by YakZSmelk on Jun 24, 2011 at 04:05 PM

looks good. mediafire ftw (just saying)

Thanks, just added a MediaFire download.

Cool stuff! I'd love to see more from you like this - it's always nice when a talented person releases things.

ingame as scenery NAO

ftfy

fine as it was, I don't do bsps

you can use shader environments on scenery, and shader environments allow bump maps

check the gbx models

:/
Edited by Delicon20 on Jun 24, 2011 at 04:58 PM

No, gbxmodels don't use the bump maps from shaders. Go try it?
And bsp is better because it's bsp. It has bullet holes, uses bump map, and ai actually pathfind around it correctly.

glad to see some alternate resources being released. thanks.

well the world won't end if you don't have bumping and bullet decals now will it?

scenery is quick and easy to place and that's how I like my halo, and if you place the move points and firing positions right the ai won't get stuck in it

I had more in mind BSP when I made these, but use them however you guys want. There doesn't really need to be an argument/discussion about this.
Edited by YakZSmelk on Jun 24, 2011 at 08:29 PM

Make modular forerunner stuff babe, I'd love to see what you come up with. <3

Anything particular that's Forerunner?

i agree you shouldnt use it on a flatish surface although i havent seen it in game(walking up to it looking side to side with my hardware) using on cliffs and things that should pop out (grooves, indents, huge erosion, etc)when you cant over make polygons is necessary though

That's actually the point of Normal/Bump maps to give the illusion of depth where it can't be. Along with a good specular and diffuse texture a flat surface can look amazingly detailed.

lol i know but i meant like a what the object is suppose to be say like smooth flat concrete with little tiny holes doesnt need to be fake bumped i see some maps where i can only notice the bumps from a very close distance

very nice yakzsmelk, thank you :)

you should make a huge forrunner base with a platform below it that has multiple walkways leading to the base, and then in the back of the base platform have a structure similar to the control room structure in b40 in the center, along with a large defensive like walls on either side with out-looking perches that are attached to the control room like structure, sort of like a place where turrets and wraiths would be able to defend the structure

hawt.

can i make scenery out of em?

Bumps or more specifically normal maps, which these are, are not overrated... EVERY SINGLE game uses them, and without them objects would look flat and have NO DETAIL at all.

Do you understand what they do? And why?

I doubt it...

Just to clarify these are normal maps, bump maps are only used for still renders where as normals can be used on dynamic objects.

well done, so you have done some research, and they are effective in this engine if you model a map properly and add actual map elements to the BSP and not add it in as scenery which looks bad.

Basically. Yes.

umm parden me, but are we fighting over...erm... A WALL!??!

This is Halomaps!

Drama > Content here.

Though I think it was more a hey which is better scenery or BSP? And was a pretty legit argument I would have liked to see more facts brought to the table though...

Bump maps are not Normal maps, you of all people here should know that.
They are over-rated how ever as opposed to Parallax occlusion maps and tessellation maps.

Notable differences between bump-maps and normal maps is Bump-maps are usually in grey scale and only display displacement depth where as normal maps are a lot more advanced in that they use RGB data which directly interacts with the pixel shader whilst with the bump map you still need to look up the corresponding texel and then calculate the normal from there.
Edited by rassilon on Jun 26, 2011 at 03:21 PM
Edited by rassilon on Jun 26, 2011 at 03:21 PM