Kiwi tea at 14:57, 17 September 2012

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2010-05-04T16:26:59Z

‎Questions? Problems?

EllaCharm3d at 15:12, 23 April 2010

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==G. Texture me beautiful==
===Interdependency===
G1. If you have been paying attention, (''Class, what is our next step?''), I have moved the steps around a bit from DeluxeDesign<nowiki>'</nowiki>s tutorial, because these next 3 steps (sections G, H & I) are interwoven as they are dependent upon each other. So, we will proceed to tweaking some textures before we start on our mesh.

===Image naming conventions===
G2. Understanding naming conventions of the *.dds images ('''00B2D882''' is the '''_IMG''' tag<nowiki>'</nowiki>s '''TypeID''' for dds images):

====Main texture of the mesh====

[[Image:EllaMeshTutorial_64.png|right|350px]]
# <code>S3_00B2D882_00000000_<your instance ID>_<resource hashed object name with '''_m_''' in the middle>_IMG.dds</code> 
# It is an RGBA mode image in shades of gray (aka a grayscale image). 
# Untick alpha layer in View → bump map in grayscale to view the image. 
# Sometimes has a matching "cousin" for its specular (shininess) – see next entry.

 
====Specular====
[[Image:EllaMeshTutorial_65.png|right|350px]]
# <code>S3_00B2D882_00000000_<your instance ID>_<resource hashed object name with '''_s_''' in the middle>_IMG.dds</code> 
# the hashed value matches your main mesh<nowiki>'</nowiki>s DDS image above 
# no need to untick alpha layer in '''View''' → specular in grayscale

 
====PartMask====

[[Image:EllaMeshTutorial_66.png|right|350px]]
# <code>S3_00B2D882_00000000_<your instance ID>_<resource hashed object name with '''_m_''' in the middle>_IMG.dds</code> 
# untick alpha layer in '''View''' → RGB part mask – in blocks of Red, Green, Blue → determines CaST recolorable parts. In this case, this dining table has 2 recolorable parts. The Red part is the top most entry in CaST screen, then Green is the 2nd and so on. 
# Objects without this are non-CaSTable – example: the Smoke Alarm, the stairs and fences, etc 

 
====DropShadow====

[[Image:EllaMeshTutorial_67.jpg|right|350px]]
# determines shadow of object indoors, coupled with "group00" of MLOD "00000" mesh and package resource GroupID "10000" – for this dining table object; different objects have different groupings in Milkshape.
# <strike>determines sunshadow of object outdoors coupled with of MDOL "10000" mesh and package resource GroupID "10001" and some mathematical calculation depending on the time of day and position of the Sun, done in-game.</strike> See Errata added below.
# untick alpha layer in '''View''' → blobs of grayscale shapes

 
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| [[Image:EllaMeshTutorial_10.gif|baseline]] Errata: 
Sorry, this paragraph was copied in error, the information has already been mentioned in '''[[Chapter E: Extracting]]''' section. ~added by [[User:Ellacharm3d|Ellacharm3d]] 04:25, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
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====Overlay====
(to be added)

 
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| [[Image:EllaMeshTutorial_10.gif|baseline]] Note: 
''Depending on the object you choose to clone, different object categories will have different naming conventions for the _IMG resource items. It is best to view all the _IMG resource items before you export any to see which needs modification for your project. ''
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G3. Prepping the stage for UV mapping, we first need to manipulate the bump map – the main texture for our object and copy the changes to the specular, too. Note that in Gimp, the alpha channel has full transparent pixels in Black and full opaque pixels in White.

 
[[Image:EllaMeshTutorial_68.png|right]]
G4. Load the dds (one at a time) into Gimp (or your image editing software), with the following options and make these changes to each image.
 

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| [[Image:EllaMeshTutorial 14.jpg|baseline]] Tip: 
''If we<nowiki>'</nowiki>re being lazy, we can just reuse the main texture, '' 
<blockquote>
# ''but save as – give a new meaningful name (still in .xcf format) and use the Color Picker and apply the specular<nowiki>'</nowiki>s colors to it (which is what I did with the resultant picture above) or '' 
# ''adjust its contrast and brightness etc etc. '' </blockquote>

''Yes, yes, I keep this to the last step because I<nowiki>'</nowiki>m ebil mwahha ha, but practice makes perfect.'' 
 
''No, really, adjusting it might not give the same effect as extracting bits of the original. You can experiment to see what works and what doesn’t for yourself. Doing that is beyond the scope of this tutorial. ''
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Kiwi tea at 14:57, 17 September 2012

EllaCharm3d at 06:06, 25 January 2011

EllaCharm3d: /* Questions? Problems? */

EllaCharm3d at 15:12, 23 April 2010

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