Damaged Concrete by Carl

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ahimsa wrote: He is training for the kittylympics

Hehe, cute!

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ahimsa wrote: ou and your big smile critters. Big grin

Bet they make you grin too
Hehe, I got more, but I don't want to overdue it. Better to let them suddenly pop up in a post and catch everyone off guard

LMAO I can't trust you girls alone, smiley cats and pigs, push ups, what did I tell you both about macho concrete filters

Im going to do the unthinkable and actually try to drag this topic back to the filter itself

Had a freind that needed a good busted up concrete texture so turned him on to your filter --with out ever really usieing it my self --he needed it for a game texture. He noted a problem for game textures that I had not noticed before. shadows... The rebar shadown in 3d games that use normal and specular maps etc you really dont want to bake shadows into textures insttead you do it with normal maps etc.. So I tweaked it for him by adding a switch to turn off shadows and add rebar ties (pig tails to the joints) You might actually want to consider an option to turn off shadows for an update with this one..just an idea the effect is still incredible --Ill have to upload a pic from him with shadows off in the doom3 engine the rebar works great still

any how a fantastic filter

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voldemort wrote: He noted a problem for game textures that I had not noticed before. shadows... The rebar shadown in 3d games that use normal and specular maps etc you really dont want to bake shadows into textures insttead you do it with normal maps etc..

Having never done 3d art this is excellent feedback, I'm going to have learn and understand the maps far better obviously. I'll will add the switch for the shadow

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voldemort wrote: add rebar ties (pig tails to the joints

I had a fiddle with ties but couldn't get it to work, so I would be very interested how you did it.

Excellent voldemort

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Foxxee wrote: how and where to integrate it into one's filter?

Foxxee plug in what you want to turn off and on into the switch component, add a checkbox, remap to 1 on and 2 off [ or vice versus ], in the off position make the colour transperent, plug in the switch to what ever component your original was being pluged into and walla you can turn on and off the effect

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Carl wrote: OH foxxee you can also use a intslider in the switch component which allows you to switch between 12 different input [ or remapped for less choices ] Smile

Thanks Carl, I have used switches before but not for this. This is going to be very handy for me, I appreciate your help

You asked about 3d maps

diffuse map --this is a flat version of your picture from where the engine determines color
height map + bump map + normal map --a map from where it determines how light will interact with it to created depth and shadows

specular map---the way light will highlight and interact with it --you can use colored specular maps to give things a tint but they are normaly B+W for just light highlights

so you normally dont want shadows backed into you photo because the render engine will add them dynamically same with specular maps --it will do the highlights dynamically

its not to say you dont create a height map in FF yes you do but you leave the highlights and shadows for the render engine to provide

this allows for a lot of creativity

for instance since the diffuse and height map are seperate textures you can then animate them seperatly to get an organic feel

for instance I used a skew parm with rgb tables etc to give organic textures a organic movement feel and then add mathmaticall varation to the heightmap to look like its pulseing in 3d even though in reality it isnt

using the seperate stages gives you alot of power

I saw this one got updated, what didja change ? I ask since it already looked so darn good to begin with.

jffe

Cool, shadow bypass, gotcha.

jffe

Thankyou uuk - there was a bit of blood and tears in making this one

Thanks itsthatguy, it certainly was the longest in time to make so glad you've enjoyed it

Thanks Steve

hahaha I am the 116 post on this filter! I win, I win!