Bump Mapping

Azureus

Well, I was mainly looking for a more in-depth tutorial than a quick guide, if you have the time to write one, or anyone else who has this technique down.

It looks to me you are adding a layer of detail based on the shadows with the grayscale element of it.

Could that work with other types of image processing, such as psuedo-hdr in photoshop?

Thanks

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Well, a real tutorial requires a larger pool of experience. I posted this only day day after I discovered this and haven’t really worked on it since, I am however willing to write a tutorial once I’ve worked more on this topic. Give me one or two weeks and I’ll see what I can do.

Azureus

No problem, I understand.

You people just keep coming out with more awesome things I can add to my unofficial patch, things such as this may create problems for lower spec machines, but this is mainly an update to show off Freelancer to the people who are buying new games with higher spec machines.

If I can improve the detail, graphics, sound etc in any way possible without changing the main experiences, I welcome it, as I welcome the possibilities and potential of this technique.

SolCommand

There aren’t many ppl out there left with lower specs PCs so I wouldn’t worry too much about that. Many upgraded their pc when Crysis came out so if they can play that game they could play any version of Freelancer that will ever see the light of the day

StarTrader

Izz veeeerrry naaaeeeiisss, goooood yob!

cheeseontoast

CoT is a n00b

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w0dk4

Well, especially on the fighter picture comparison you can see that its clearly detail mapping. It doesnt look bumped at all, its just more dirty.

cheeseontoast

aye, also found this line in dacom.ini thought id check there first haha

name = ^detailmap_.* = BtDetailMapMaterial

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Well even if it isn’t bump mapping it’s a nice more or less new mapping technique for materials.^^ Maybe it’s possible to add real bump mapping to FL?

FriendlyFire

Simply put: I doubt it.

Also, this isn’t a new technique. Just read up on texture baking; you can do exactly the same effect if not much better with good knowledge of 3d texture making.

Bejaymac

Easy way to find out if you do have bump mapping is to apply a single color (white or light gray) diffuse texture to the model, that way any real bump mapping will show as lumps & bumps, and detail maps will show flat & smooth.

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I’m going to try this on some ships i just got hold of, they come with bump map textures so will use the guide to apply them.

This is an excellent little tutorial, simple to follow as well, can’t see the need for an in depth one, all the info is here.

oZed

If you want to see what this does to vanilla models look here at the pack I made of a whole heap of vanilla models with this applied to them, I think I got all the liberty and bounty hunter ship models plus most of the utility done.

Ozed

Dromedary

I’d like to know where i’m going wrong. Followed the instructions, and i end up with a transparent model for some reason. All the nodes are correct, they look like the ones in the tutorial at any rate

LiveOrDie

All done on the tuturial, but nothing is working, ships, stations and all the rest just transparent, tell me in what may be . Thank you.

Add later: it works, thanks. I would like to know how to apply it to 3db files.