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GubbyBlips
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Posted: 30th Apr 2019 23:57
Anyone know how to fix the textures on them?
They are very bright. (At least most of them I've seen.)
Thanks. I'm complete noob @ modeling.

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99% of the classics only have a colour map and most of the material indexes are wrong you would need to create the rest of the maps required to get them to look anything like normal but I also assume most of the models are not up to scratch either. I can demonstrate this if you let me know which model in particular you are trying to use I will create the missing maps for you for that model
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It can also be because there is no shader assigned in the fpe of the items.
There are a lot of fpe with no shader assigned in the classic folder.
for example if you look at the below fpe in notepad

entitybank\Classics\Ancient Rome\fort_wall.fpe

the effect field is empty

textured = fort_entrance.dds
effect =

so if you change it to..

effect = effectbank\reloaded\entity_basic.fx

it will apply that shader to the entity.
Then it will look pretty good after that.
note: you will need to restart gg or start a new level for the change to take effect.
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Posted: 2nd May 2019 00:18 Edited at: 2nd May 2019 00:20
I was in the process of fixing most of those classics entities. But its extremely time consuming and I'm not sure if TGC will add the update to the Steam DLC if i were to do the work as I believe they are focused on PBR updates mainly now.

I might put a resource together on the external resource i run for this in the future:
http://www.freetoronto.org/gameguru/

But again its very time consuming and would be better if it was directly integrated/updated with the steam DLC. Or else the hard work may be for only a few rather than everyone.
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Thanks guys. I will definitely take you up on that offer
GraPhiX in time. Actually if you are interested, in the folder
"nature" are the rock/ cave items. In particular the large
"cave section 1" and the "rocky entrance". At least these
would be great to see not so bright-- particularly if one
entered the cave to explore!


Nice info, perelect. I will try what you suggested.

That's cool Teabone! At this point-- with most or all of these items,
standard textures is just fine over PBR anyhow.
Of course whatever happens here, happens for everyone!

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Posted: 3rd May 2019 01:31
Okay, perelect, so I tried that method
with a rock cave entity. Good and bad news.
It made it dark-- basically normal looking, BUT
it made it glossy like plastic! So many times
I've seen this happen to what should be
matte finish (dull finish) objects. Sandstone
should not glisten like glossy painted pots!
Lol

We're on the right track it looks like, just
maybe there's another setting I could check.
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Posted: 3rd May 2019 01:54
I believe the specular settings will fix that.
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Posted: 3rd May 2019 02:26
It seems to help a bit If you turn
global specular down all the way.
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Posted: 3rd May 2019 02:34
There is a specular setting in the fpe I believe you can adjust.
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Posted: 3rd May 2019 03:29
Nice. Thanks tdreisinger that will help!
Also, with a little experimenting then if you want,
you could tweak them further by assigning the fx
like mentioned above and replace with skycore,
(bright but not washed out) or shadowcore,
(like it sounds, a darker version) of original.
So Good News! No need to a great deal of
in-modeling work to get results!

........that's just for the couple models I tested on though.......

Thanks for all the help guys.
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Posted: 3rd May 2019 03:38
BTW, just one more comment, I haven't done a
Stand-Alone test on these, but let's hope that what
we see in the GG test level carries over. It should!
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not sure if I can post the fixed asset I will enquire this is with a PBR shader and all maps

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Posted: 3rd May 2019 12:33 Edited at: 3rd May 2019 13:06
Quote: "Okay, perelect, so I tried that method with a rock cave entity. Good and bad news.
It made it dark-- basically normal looking, BUT it made it glossy like plastic! So many times
I've seen this happen to what should be matte finish (dull finish) objects. Sandstone
should not glisten like glossy painted pots! Lol
We're on the right track it looks like, just maybe there's another setting I could check."


Now this is in the area of adjusting texture maps to suit your needs, as Graphix first posted.
This is the best option, and to get the best end result in this version of GG they need to be converted to PBR.
This is beyond my skill set.

But if you want to experiment you could try..

You could try adjusting the specular setting as tdreisinger suggested,
This can be done to some extent by clicking on the entity then going to properties and adjust the specular settings.

( This is what i do myself to adjust these older models to this PBR version of GG. )
If you have an app like Paint.Net you can adjust the texture itself,
I usually just adjust saturation, brightness, contrast and color levels.
If you understand how DNIS maps work you can make them in Paint.Net as well.
So if a texture is named xx_D.dds it will use xx_N.dds, xx_I.dds, xx_S.dds if they are provided.
Look at another entity that uses this, to understand its fpe settings and texture maps to see how it works.

The other option is to adjust/change shaders which i see you have already tried.
If you try to tweak some setting in the .fx files you need to change forceloadtestgameshaders=0 to forceloadtestgameshaders=1 in setup.ini and restart GG for it to take effect.

You can also go back to a non PBR version of GG on steam, if you dont want to use the PBR features.

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Posted: 3rd May 2019 22:13 Edited at: 3rd May 2019 22:16
Hi I have had permission from Lee to post the fixed models here I will upload them asap
Cave section 1 is attached to this post

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Posted: 3rd May 2019 23:12
That's cool. Thanks Graphix!
Our Mothers day in the U.S. is coming up in just a few days...
long story short, I thought a unique idea would be to make
a game for my (70 something... haha), Mother and see if I can
get her to play it! LOL So the game is just a walking around
maybe ride a horse or something game with as much pretty things
like flowers, birds etc I can find. I'm from the red rock country
of western U.S. desert but live 2200 miles/ 3500 km from my parents.
Thanks again!

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