I feel kinda sorry for this topic having 4 pages with little actual OS shaders being posted, so I'm just gonna repost this for the sixth time already:



This one does NOT use OS, it was done professionally using lens flares, and specular generating shader_environments:

Edited by OrangeJuice on May 8, 2013 at 12:12 PM

I HAVE to admit those are extremely impressive. I actually think I've played this map before, too.

It runs just fine on a slightly overclocked FX5200(the PCI version;)

I don't see how it's bad for performance, lol

Didn't even have to use the FX5700 I had laying around ^-^
trytta live a little, maaaaan! I try everything
Edited by OrangeJuice on May 8, 2013 at 01:35 PM

lol, hardly professional. SuperSunny was just messing around with a bunch of stuff to see how pretty he could make it. None of that was made to be realistically integrated into a map, or even as proof of concepts.

Mirror reflections and lights.

> Open Sauce Shader post
>Argument about Open Sauce

Excuse my Green-textory but we've appeared to have Kareem off the beaten path of topic land.

And there's a message from Dennis up there that threatens bans for anyone who talks off topic.

I personally love seeing what can be done with OS, and I don't understand how anyone can not see it as a positive.

all of my shaders over the time of using OS ranging from crappy to marginal quality(not in order):

WARNING PIC HEAVY

with bloom

without bloom

Ambient Occlusion?

It's not Open Sauce





Yeah, it's a little dark and it's not so well configured right now.

I didn't take the pictures, a friend sent me those.

But how do you think it is possible?

Both the Nvidia Control Panel and Enbseries offer ambient occlusion settings. I believe there are other plugins that allow it but they're the most likely.

I thought it was impossible with ENB Series...

Since this topic seems to be so slow-moving, I figured I would post my take on shaders for the H4 Chief. I am trying to get a more metallic/ceramic finish than what is seen in H4.

The visor is still a WIP. I wanted to get a decent fresnel set up before attempting the hex pattern.






Edited by Alexis on May 27, 2013 at 12:48 AM

For some reason the metal is looking plastic-like. For as much damage and grime as that thing seems to have taken, it is shining WAY too much. Post the specular used please. Also, what cube are you using. Something is making it look off to me.

No cube used on the metal or techsuit. specular is the red channel of the original control map. I tried to get more of the original Reach trailer look as I am not a fan of the Halo 4 material setup, which seems far too waxy and dull.
Edited by Alexis on May 27, 2013 at 01:32 AM

Lookin good rippa, lookin good.

That's the problem though. While I don't believe it should be a dull texture, textures that become scratched or battered should have less specualr intensity in those areas because they are most likely places to catch dirt or where the finish has been rubbed or scraped off and would leave imperfections in the metal. Having everything shine takes away the fact that it is metal. Now looking back at some things, it appears some of the larger gouges have a lower sp[ecular level, but areas on the flat in some spaces like the shoulder plating and other large plated areas should have a brushed sort of feel so it's like they are worn. The way they are now, it almost looks like he just wen't in for a fresh coat of gloss paint on some parts. I just think perhaps the specualr, or whatever layer or whatnot you are using for the specular, should have more contrast in it to discern worn unreflective areas from places that should be more reflective.

I understand your reasoning, Matching H4's materials was the first thing I tried, as well as a less reflective setup, but they were not the look I was trying to get. I have always preferred Halo 1 and 2's shinier spartans over the later games...

The shine is really only present under harsh light. If you are indoors or under shadow, only the base metal beneath the paint shines. The specular map is pretty much black aside from some of the corner wear which are full white.
Edited by Alexis on May 27, 2013 at 12:55 PM

good job on the spartans so far.

OK since i would like to get a little critique on my os shaders i will repost some of my photos from wip's

Halo 3 ODST Barrier:

Thanks.

Your shader setup looks very close to the source! If anything, I believe ODST's highlights had a bit of a deeper gold... Though that may have been the color correction applied.

Can I ask what your specular exponent, and coefficient values are?

the concrete/foam is set to

exponent: 6

coefficient: 2

turned down both perpendicular and parallel brightness down to 0.4 because its a duller object

then for the main barrier

exponent: 4

coefficient: 5.5

perpendicular and parallel brightness to 1

and specular color exponent is at 1.5

i didn't think i was that close, i didn't even bother looking up and references, just went off of memory
Edited by killzone64 on May 27, 2013 at 03:52 PM

Its crazy that opensauce made this possible. I want to see ragnarok in HCE though. Itd probably look better with the halo 4 MC and the Halo 4 weapons

Thanks for posting that info. The metal was about where I was going to suggest.

Like I said, it looks pretty close to the source, aside from the reflection color.



I plan to start working on shaders for some Halo 4 weapons when I get a chance... I just hate the re-smoothing process. I am never content with the smoothing groups that were applied by the dev teams.

that's because the smoothing groups should be 180 degrees smooth and all the vertices welded. the normals handle the edges and such.

Yeah, I basically apply all my ports' smoothing groups by hand. Granted my process is undoubtedly inefficient.

-Import EMF
-Apply Normals and Specular map to a highly reflective grey material.
-Weld verts at .000001
-Clear existing Smoothing Groups
-Re-smooth, taking into account the normals and reflectivity to prevent conflicting normals, and odd reflections.

I would suggest adding the smoothing groups before welding verts at 0.0001
That's what I do, and it's a bit more efficient as you can just undo and change the smoothing groups if the welding messes up some smoothing groups.

Ah, Yes.. I don't know why I hadn't considered that! Though, if you clear the smoothing groups after welding, nothing is smoothed. Since I am not relying on the existing smoothing, would the result not be the same?

It would be much easier to apply smoothing groups since before welding, you can select polygon element pieces, much easier than selecting face by face after welding.

Whenever I import something, I remove all the smoothing groups on it, and apply them all to the smoothing group of 32. Then I start using polygon element select and assigning different smoothing groups, of course also deselecting group 32 until every face on the model has been assigned to something other than 32. Then I weld it all together.
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on May 27, 2013 at 06:48 PM

or you could just weld everything and set the smoothing angle to 180 since the normal maps handle the rest
I thought we were talking about halo 4 rips

Ah, I see, though I don't usually use their poly elements when applying the smoothing since I am re-smoothing it to my "standards" if that makes sense. I can see where it would be beneficial to do it your way when you want to keep true to the model's original smoothing.



I have done this in the past, but prefer to set the smoothing groups by hand, regardless of the normal maps.

Well, you know, here and there I would sometimes change the smoothing groups from the original poly element to match what I think would fit best. Well, it's just a suggestion that you can consider.

I definitely will! It may be useful when smoothing weapons with their dense meshes.

Excellent work as always Alexis and Killzone.

Just looking around OS features :)

tone down the shine on the armor, i like the visor though. looks like the H3 beta.

also it would be cool to see this stickied or whatever its called. if dennis were to rename it OS Shaders Work in progress thread bla bla bla.
Edited by MEGASEAN2812 on Feb 14, 2014 at 05:21 PM

Halo 2 Chief and my Halo 3 MP character.






Edited by Dumb AI on Feb 14, 2014 at 05:53 PM