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Specular texture items with Toribash Next
Specular maps would allow artists to define a material or texture a lot more. A specular map decides what part of the object that should shine whenever a light is pointed towards it. Could be useful for robot sets, sets with small details made out of a shiny material, shiny eyes or glossy lips etc. It will definately be possible with the new engine.
Discuss.
Discuss.
I would make suggestion for not only specular, but all the textures
for meshes in unity engine.
this includes:
-normal maps
-specular maps
-diffuse maps
-skyboxes
-lightmap
-maybe some more
for meshes in unity engine.
this includes:
-normal maps
-specular maps
-diffuse maps
-skyboxes
-lightmap
-maybe some more
Originally Posted by dengue
I would make suggestion for not only specular, but all the textures
for meshes in unity engine.
this includes:
-normal maps
-specular maps
-diffuse maps
-skyboxes
-lightmap
-maybe some more
I definately agree, but wouldn't skyboxes replace shaders in a way?
Originally Posted by Hypersaint
I definately agree, but wouldn't skyboxes replace shaders in a way?
Essentially "shader textures" lol
-normal maps
Would love to see these, but mostly because it would give 3d modellers a serious advantage hehe. A normal map isnt really something you can do easily with a 2d program, and almost certainly not by hand. Would be better than bumpmaps though, even from 2d sources (i remember gimp had a normal map filter plugin you could download).
-specular maps
Already mentioned, my vote for single best possible texture.
-diffuse maps
Ashamed to admit, don't know much about diffuse maps...
-skyboxes
If this were coupled with lightmaps and could achieve something similar to global illumination, that would be incredible. idk how unity works though, or any game engine tbf.
-lightmap
I would say this is a close followup to specular textures, especially if the light was dynamic and affected the tori's surroundings/other tori/uke. So many cool things could be done with light.
The biggest issue though is, and ill admit idk WHY it is this way, but a big issue for TB has ALWAYS been server space or load times or something. while all these textures would be cool, unless TB Next solves those problems then it would be the same as the 512 bumpmaps we'll never see.
Take all of this with a grain of salt, I don't really know a damn thing.
Originally Posted by Deridor
-diffuse maps
Ashamed to admit, don't know much about diffuse maps...
Diffuse Maps are the colors of the mesh,
it is all you see in toribash textures.
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Originally Posted by Hypersaint
I definately agree, but wouldn't skyboxes replace shaders in a way?
Originally Posted by Deridor
-skyboxes
If this were coupled with lightmaps and could achieve something similar to global illumination, that would be incredible. idk how unity works though, or any game engine tbf.
these would be great if shaders created adds the skyboxes automatically,
I know the engine and see this as complex feature,
but allowing to set skyboxes would make reflection of objects available,
wich would make possible materials, such as plastic and chrome metal.
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I would add with this:
-Visibility
-Emission
-Metalic
-Refraction (if it is not too expensive on hardware)
Last edited by dengue; Jan 6, 2018 at 02:34 AM.
