Massive Environment Pack Milestone!
by Jacob Dankovchik · 10/24/2009 (11:49 am) · 4 comments
Finally, after more work than I'd like to even think about, I've completed all 50 textures for my upcoming environment pack. I've been falling behind from where I wanted to be lately so yesterday I told myself that no matter what, I WOULD FINISH. Only took 13 straight hours of working, but I got there...
So, a quick description of what I have to offer here. These are 50 textures, all 100% complete. Seamless with a diffuse layer, detail layer, normal map, and parallax map. Each and every layer was given specific attention and tweaks to make sure that it looked acceptable to me. For some of the layers they required me to do some special filtering of the stock image into a few other layers just to use them to adjust the main texture. Meaning some textures, just to make them look right, required up to 8 different images processed together and sometimes over an hour just for one. A lot of care and effort was put forth in this.
Each layer of the texture is provided in a 1024x1024 size and the normal/parallax map is in an uncompressed DDS format. This will provide you with the maximum reasonable amount of data to work with, leaving the size and compression to be set at your discretion.
This demo video shows all 50 textures in both a high and low light condition. This should give you an idea of their overall behavior in light.
The remainder of the environment pack will consist of multiple terrain files, complete and well-detailed terrain tutorials, various roads/paths, environmental particles and emitters, and a specialized water shader for highly accurate shading of underwater objects. Continued free updates will also be included. As my experience increases so does my ability so any time I work on one of these items for myself to improve it, I will update the pack so that you all can benefit from the improvements as well.
The full pack I just described will be priced at $100. I will also break it down into smaller, cheaper packs, I've yet to work out exactly how I will divide it out. However with the mini-packs you will not get updated content and you will not have access to the water shader nor a few other textures/effects. I will still make it a very fair in what you get for what you pay but the full pack will definitely be the better bargain.
So anyhow, here is the texture set. I highly recommend watching this in HD and fullscreen to really be able to see what you're looking at.
So, a quick description of what I have to offer here. These are 50 textures, all 100% complete. Seamless with a diffuse layer, detail layer, normal map, and parallax map. Each and every layer was given specific attention and tweaks to make sure that it looked acceptable to me. For some of the layers they required me to do some special filtering of the stock image into a few other layers just to use them to adjust the main texture. Meaning some textures, just to make them look right, required up to 8 different images processed together and sometimes over an hour just for one. A lot of care and effort was put forth in this.
Each layer of the texture is provided in a 1024x1024 size and the normal/parallax map is in an uncompressed DDS format. This will provide you with the maximum reasonable amount of data to work with, leaving the size and compression to be set at your discretion.
This demo video shows all 50 textures in both a high and low light condition. This should give you an idea of their overall behavior in light.
The remainder of the environment pack will consist of multiple terrain files, complete and well-detailed terrain tutorials, various roads/paths, environmental particles and emitters, and a specialized water shader for highly accurate shading of underwater objects. Continued free updates will also be included. As my experience increases so does my ability so any time I work on one of these items for myself to improve it, I will update the pack so that you all can benefit from the improvements as well.
The full pack I just described will be priced at $100. I will also break it down into smaller, cheaper packs, I've yet to work out exactly how I will divide it out. However with the mini-packs you will not get updated content and you will not have access to the water shader nor a few other textures/effects. I will still make it a very fair in what you get for what you pay but the full pack will definitely be the better bargain.
So anyhow, here is the texture set. I highly recommend watching this in HD and fullscreen to really be able to see what you're looking at.
#2
10/24/2009 (12:03 pm)
Nice grass! I'm a grass freak. Quite a number of them are very impressive, actually. It would be nice to get some shots where the camera is angled a bit upwards as well. Congrats on the milestone.
#4
i second that.
the first 5 textures did not look good but after those then all the rest looked real good i realy like the snow textures.
10/24/2009 (4:10 pm)
Quote:It would be nice to get some shots where the camera is angled a bit upwards as well. Congrats on the milestone.
i second that.
the first 5 textures did not look good but after those then all the rest looked real good i realy like the snow textures.
Torque 3D Owner Tuomas Kaukoranta
Keep up the great work Jacob!