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Posted: 7th Mar 2014 08:39
I am not a big fan of the current snow terrain, So I will be changing it out.



Though I am just getting my head around the transparency et al.Already have textures ready to add a proper riverbed sediment, and going to work on a proper beach textures :p



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Posted: 7th Mar 2014 20:32
thats looking nice

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Posted: 8th Mar 2014 10:13
Thanks want increase the size, and try again, perhaps little less blocky :p
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Posted: 23rd May 2014 09:57
Been playing around some more, with the textures.Think I am finally getting the hang of it :p



Just have to replace the moss and sedimentary then I will have a new terrain texture set to release There isn't a autumn based set.







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Posted: 23rd May 2014 10:02
First image is looking nice mate.



I know you said you are still working on it, but, the texture doesn't seem completely seamless. You might have missed a small section in photoshop when trying to clone and heal the seam out.



The seam is closest to the camera in the middle of the image.



I wanted to play with changing the terrain textures, but, not yet looked into it. How easy is the texture change over?



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Posted: 23rd May 2014 10:10 Edited at: 23rd May 2014 10:11
Oh the first image is meh first test I did



Second one is what I managed after a couple of tries. :p



Very very easy, however I sent an email to lee, there is a minor problem, you need to follow the way they produced the alpha on the original texture, as the shader creates is own specular as far as I am aware, however this specular map is stupidly high, and looks unrealistic.From I a look at the shader I didn't find and tweakables.



So it's no hard, just annoying working out how the alpha needs to be, also I am not using a Photoshop using, using a combination of gimp and a seamless texture generator
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Posted: 23rd May 2014 13:38
Well, I might have to have a go at creating my own terrain textures now!



I use Gimp mainly as well. Its quite good at creating seamless textures (obviously manually, the automated plug-in gives terrible results).



When you say working out how to alpha needs to be, have you found a happy medium that you might want to share? (yes, I am being lazy and trying to steal your many hours of trial and error!)



So, the alpha channel you refer to is the alpha of the diffuse? Or is it the alpha of the spec map?



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Posted: 23rd May 2014 14:29
Lol I figured it out after trying a bit



Alpha channel needs to contain specular map :p



Works like a charm now
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Posted: 23rd May 2014 14:32
I will have an experiment with it this weekend.



I assumed it would be the spec map. Any hints on what you did or changed?



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Posted: 23rd May 2014 14:45
Specular will use a greyscale masked layer and diffuse a masked white full transparency layer, obviously you need to open specular and diffuse as a layer, then apply the layers in gimp.



Took some time to figure that out.
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Posted: 23rd May 2014 14:51
Coolio. Thanks mate. I will have a play around with that later.



Good luck with your new terrain textures!



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Posted: 23rd May 2014 16:08
thanks first texture set Autumn is ready



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Posted: 23rd May 2014 17:52
Looking nice mate.



Is there a reason why your 'near vertical' angles have little to no texture stretching?



What is this voodoo magic?

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Posted: 23rd May 2014 18:12
No voodoo just texture magic

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