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Oh, and are you doing roof materials? I’d like to put in a request for terra cotta tiles.

zigraphix - 20 December 2012 01:59 PM

Looks great!

My only concern is that the damaged concrete shows a perceptible pattern. But other than having really huge tiles, the only way I can think of to get around this involves layers or procedural shaders, which would interfere with the preview.

(Oh, and the moss looks a little bright, but that may just be the lighting in the scene.)

Let me know if you need any extra help with displacement.

It looks like she’s using variation 7 of Carl’s concrete, if she upped the overall size of the tile that filter forge kicks out to 2000px or 3000px (up from the 600px preview tile from the filterforge website that it looks like she’s using now)  she’d lose a lot of the repetition.  And I wouldn’t think of that as being “really huge”, most Vicky maps are 4000px.

Yes, Ziggy, the terracotta roof tiles are already done, along with thatching, corrugated iron, wooden shingles and a few others. I’ll post more previews later today. The ivy may be a little bright. I was concerned about the darkening effect of heavy displacement and may have over-compensated. But then again, it may be the lighting.

Yes, Joe, I’m using Filter Forge to generate the color maps for the first batch of these so that is indeed the concrete. I’m then making my own displacement/bump/normal, spec and reflection maps to make them really pop in 3d. The second batch will come from texture resources I own and can make my own tiles from, and the third batch will be from photos I take of building materials.

I’m doing a first draft of all the textures first, all at 600 by 600. When I’m done, I’ll go back to the ones that are not quite working and generate bigger tiles and use smaller tiling rates.

My plan is to allow this set to be used as a merchant resource, provided the textures are baked onto a map or a model and not redistributed as tiles. This could be a great boon for modellers, who could apply the texture in DS, then use Shader Baker to generate a mapped version of it.

Joe, I go for small size, hi-res as much as possible and use bigger tiles only when absolutely necessary. It’s the notion of producing the equivalent of 10,000 by 10,000 with a single 600 by 600 tile that makes shaders exciting to me. If I had to go up to 4000 to make it work, I’d delete the texture as unsuitable for tiling.

Here are a couple more examples. The first is Storm Castle with its original (very nice) textures.

The third uses a seamless stone and terracotta roof tiles. The second uses wattle and daub with a wooden shingle roof. There some other textures changed as well on some of the smaller surfaces.

...wow, a fabricator for buildings.

Marieah - 20 December 2012 09:38 PM

Joe, I go for small size, hi-res as much as possible and use bigger tiles only when absolutely necessary. It’s the notion of producing the equivalent of 10,000 by 10,000 with a single 600 by 600 tile that makes shaders exciting to me. If I had to go up to 4000 to make it work, I’d delete the texture as unsuitable for tiling.

Here are a couple more examples. The first is Storm Castle with its original (very nice) textures.

The third uses a seamless stone and terracotta roof tiles. The second uses wattle and daub with a wooden shingle roof. There some other textures changed as well on some of the smaller surfaces.

Beautiful pictures! Those kinds of textures were just what I was hoping for.

Thanks Sikeus. I knew we were on the same page, but had to show you.

Here’s another example:

Yay!

(Pity about the UV mapping of the roof, but it still looks pretty darn good!)

Marieah - 21 December 2012 12:15 AM

Thanks Sikeus. I knew we were on the same page, but had to show you.

Here’s another example:

Ohhh, that stone looks great! I’m loving the texture/displacement. That will be great for closeups! I have so many buildings that look a bit less than stellar when doing a high resolution closeup.

Yes, it is a pity about the mapping.but there always seems to be a trade off somewhere, Props often have fairly low res textures, so this will be a boon for close ups. Here’s a bit more before I find another model to play with….

One uses a nice bit of stonework and a rolled roof texture. The other is an amusing half-timbered Tudoresque look with mossy thatch for the roof. I’ve done a couple of kinds of lattice as well, with transparency, and you can see one of them on the upper shutters.

Wow these are needed.  I need to make buildings look similar to make towns even though the buildings are made by different people.  Thank you!

Wow, this is looking better and better. 

...oh my, what I could do to Stonemason’s “Big City” with this.

Kulay Wolf - 21 December 2012 10:40 AM

Wow these are needed.  I need to make buildings look similar to make towns even though the buildings are made by different people.  Thank you!

Yes, that was one of the situations I had in mind,

I’ve always wanted to use the top of the tower from Dragon Island for some ideas with figures coming out of the door onto the battlements, but every time I’ve tried, the low-rez stone texture is just soooo aweful when viewed up close, I give up.  Hopefully with this, that tower will become usable for closeups.