Hi-Hair [Download]

[Aeon]

Edited 29/05/2010 - open source​

Some people don't have karma to become modeller.
I've understood I was one of them,  but if my early work from could be re-used by other, please be my guest !

• hair_blonde.dds
  (512*512 texture, alpha channel)
  
• gray.dds
  (512*512, alpha used to fade-in hair while defined older aspect)
  
• hair_blonde_norm.dds
  (512*512 normal, didn't yet figured how to use it...)

For image editing :
hair_768.psd
(.psd texture 768*76

Feedback welcome !

 

[Barf]

Stick with the dxt5 the texture sizes are the same and the dxt5 is superior quality when using blended alpha maps (which you are).
I think 1024x is alright, it is 4 times more memory than 512x texture so you may want to consider 768x768 because it is only a little over 2x file size....I think...ugh math but either way you are only changing 1 texture things like this only cause problems when people start using 2048x2048 or using 1024x1024 on everything.

About the normal map I am somewhat confused since it appears to be using one in-game already but I cant find any connected to the hair material or in the textures folder.

Edit: noop doesn't already have a normal map and attaching one to the hair material wont work so your only hope would be if specular_shader_noskin_bump_high supports an alpha....

edit2: specular_shader_skin_bump_high_aniso works with a normal map and alpha.

 

[xenoargh]

1024 is fine for LOD0, just do all lods with half that or smaller (I'd go 256 + sharpen, I bet you can't tell).

 

[QuailLover]

I have to say that this is a great idea. The hair looks alot better in the after picture.

 

[FrisianDude]

Your improvement does look really rather good.

 

[Barf]

1024 is fine for LOD0, just do all lods with half that or smaller (I'd go 256 + sharpen, I bet you can't tell).

this is what mip-mapping is for, automatic decimation of texture at distance.
(plus the whole anti-grainyness thing).

 

[Aeon]

Thanks Barf, I've followed your advice to preserve usage memory and I've drawn a 768*768 texture but alas I can't use it since DDS Converter 2.1 fail conversion : "Error : Not a power of 2"

Does anyone know another tool to convert ?
And more worrying... Such texture size will be supported by game ? 


Edit :
Ok, I tried to use Gimp+DDS plugin.
It can save/convert image non-power of 2 , but ! :
- If compressed (DXT), mipmaps cannot be generated.
- If uncompressed, I loose alpha channel.

 

[iggorbb]

I saw that texture size somewhere, but it is used for horse and it is working fine.

 

[Emfromkraland]

Thanks Barf, I've followed your advice to preserve usage memory and I've drawn a 768*768 texture but alas I can't use it since DDS Converter 2.1 fail conversion : "Error : Not a power of 2"

Does anyone know another tool to convert ?
And more worrying... Such texture size will be supported by game ? 

It's because of texture in game developpement have to be a power of 2.
128x128, 512x512, 1024x1024, 2048x2048 are the main sizes used by games. but you can make as you want a 128x1024 px texture size. It just have to be a power of 2.

 

[Aeon]

So I could either stick with 768* DXT5 and smallers ones to commute mipmaps (assigning them to LOD, as xenoargh told). That's too much for myself since I'm a noob.
Or I could donwscale 768* > 512* (texture result will look more crumpled whereas if I had drawn it natively 512*  ).

But anyway, I won't draw it again , I'm quite fed up with that one.

 

[Emfromkraland]

768 is a power of 3. i guess that would explain it.
Use only 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,512,1024,2048,4096 sizes.

 

[Barf]

Well I'll be, go with the 1024 size texture, honestly for 1 texture its perfectly fine.....this is worrying me since I have been using 768x768 for a great many things....****.

 

[xenoargh]

768 will fail on many video cards.  Expand the 768s to 1024s, run Sharpen, it will be OK.

 

[Arch3r]

This looks a lot better indeed.

 

[Aeon]

I give up that hair/face hi-resolution project, I have no skill enough to handle it. 
>> Source realised, check first post.


Oh, and if someone could post ingame screenshots with normal map working. Thanks !

 

[Slog]

The links appear to be down. Anywhere else I could download this?

 

[King Berend]

I've got the same problem

 

[DOMA_]

Let you revive links!