Upcoming Skins and Shader Maps #2

[attacker5]

Its hard to explane with words, its best to use pictures as examples. But basically the colour is the colour of the light bouncing off the object, the opacity / alpha is the insensitivity of that light. The lower the opacity the less light you will see bouncing back.

Umm, not quite.

The color is the filter the light passes through on the rebound from the surface, the intensity is the amount of white, so generally by boosting the exposure, the alpha has nothing to do with intensity but rather exponent. The alpha will adjust how dispersed the light is, or how pin point it is.

[attacker5]

I read somewhere that a spec with a color that's the inverse of a diffuse looks good. I've never tried it, but I would just merge all of the colored layers and invert the hue. That might be cool to try out.

Sorry for double, but this is proof that the color is a filter rather than the actual color, because the inverse of a color mixed with the original color will give you a completely desaturated color.

[Boblob801]

The intensity is the amount of white, so generally by boosting the exposure, the alpha has nothing to do with intensity but rather exponent. The alpha will adjust how dispersed the light is, or how pin point it is.

That's what I meant bar the white part. I thought it was just how "pin point" as you say, it was. I just used different words, I was never good at English so what I mean by intense may be different to what you mean. Either way.

The color is the filter the light passes through on the rebound from the surface

But basically the colour is the colour of the light bouncing off the object

Same shit ah.

[suzukiozark]

Here's an in game pic of the gear.



Let me know what you think

[GoPro HD]

Here's an in game pic of the gear.

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/5393/fox180gear.png

Let me know what you think

super gangster.

[NAUpoiss75]

White is super dark,lighten it up a bit!

[BuddyTheElf]

Lower the opacity of the shading too.

[suzukiozark]

White is super dark,lighten it up a bit!

Lower the opacity of the shading too.

The white is as bright as white can be. If I lower the opacity of the shading that will brighten it up.

Thanks for the tips!

[KTM57]

Don't use 100% white. Use something more like 92% so you can get more variance out of it.

[suzukiozark]

Alright, thanks for the tip!
I lowered the opacity of the shading and it looks much better, thanks for pointing that out.

[Fransoo773]

Have you started on normal maps yet? Because I think that'll be the next step.

[suzukiozark]

Have you started on normal maps yet? Because I think that'll be the next step.

I have the norms for the wrinkles and stuff in the jersey and pants, but I have no norm's for the logo's. I actually have no idea how to make norms for the logo's. If somebody could help me out with that it would be great.

Also, I'm using gimp to make this and I'm quite sure you can't make norm's in gimp...

[KTM57]

You can download the standalone program xNormal and use that. It's clunkier than a Photoshop plugin, but it should work.

[Fransoo773]

I actually use Gimp for my normal maps too, since there's no xNormal plug in for Macs, and mine seem to come out good enough as long as you don't try to get too fancy.

[attacker5]

Zumzing different.