Nifty greybox auto-material
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Hey guys!
I've just finished making a material that automatically textures faces differently depending on which way they're facing, ie) 1) floor, 2) wall, and 3) ceiling. This is very useful for when you're quickly creating some greybox geometry, but don't want the ugly grey textures everywhere. This material by default uses the nice biodome textures, but it can be modified to use any textures. It's not meant to replace actual detailing, but just meant to provide a fast, easy way to put some texture into your map for testing. Nobody likes playing on the grey textures!
NOTE: biodome/eclipse/descent textures are made slightly different from the old refinery textures. The "old" style of textures has the specular map as a greyscale image in the albedo map's alpha channel, so these materials only have 2 textures, the glossy map is a constant value. The "new" style of textures has 3 textures: albedo, normal, and specular, where the specular map is RGB, and the glossy map is greyscale in the specular map's alpha channel. In order to get the older materials to work with this materials, some modification would be needed in the shader file.
That is ONE material, assigned to all faces, and I didn't have to do any texture mapping whatsoever.
Two files are needed:
Material file (this is what is assigned to faces in the editor): https://www.dropbox.com/s/jgoqd4sqany6at6/auto_greybox.material?dl=1
Shader file (this is what the material references, it MUST go into your "[mod/map directory]/shaders" directory): https://www.dropbox.com/s/3351fu141s7ef2o/Model_Three.surface_shader?dl=1
Enjoy!
I've just finished making a material that automatically textures faces differently depending on which way they're facing, ie) 1) floor, 2) wall, and 3) ceiling. This is very useful for when you're quickly creating some greybox geometry, but don't want the ugly grey textures everywhere. This material by default uses the nice biodome textures, but it can be modified to use any textures. It's not meant to replace actual detailing, but just meant to provide a fast, easy way to put some texture into your map for testing. Nobody likes playing on the grey textures!
NOTE: biodome/eclipse/descent textures are made slightly different from the old refinery textures. The "old" style of textures has the specular map as a greyscale image in the albedo map's alpha channel, so these materials only have 2 textures, the glossy map is a constant value. The "new" style of textures has 3 textures: albedo, normal, and specular, where the specular map is RGB, and the glossy map is greyscale in the specular map's alpha channel. In order to get the older materials to work with this materials, some modification would be needed in the shader file.
Two files are needed:
Material file (this is what is assigned to faces in the editor): https://www.dropbox.com/s/jgoqd4sqany6at6/auto_greybox.material?dl=1
Shader file (this is what the material references, it MUST go into your "[mod/map directory]/shaders" directory): https://www.dropbox.com/s/3351fu141s7ef2o/Model_Three.surface_shader?dl=1
Enjoy!
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Heck, i might hunt you down to make tools for me for games that aren't moddable to make my life easier
*tips hat* don't thank me, it's my job.
Nah, I was just joking. Pretty sure CDT actually can't accept money... not 100% sure though, but either way my answer is the same.
lol.
Making stuff for my games has nothing to do with the CDT though... :P
I am also not benefiting from your current whirlind of wonderful updates, as I no longer use NS2. Your work is commendable none the less, even if currently of little value to me
Aww... that makes me sad.