ElmarNieser
09-19-2011, 02:02 PM
Heya,
I have this really annoying specular problem in UDK. Let me talk you trough it step by step with some images:
This is the model I created in 3dsmax, sinse I really need some high detail in this model's texture map. I figured unwrapping 1/9 of the model, and make it have overlapping UV's.
http://www.cgforge.org/01.png
This is the UV map for the model. As you can see the 'main ring' is just planar mapped, as well as the 'inner ring'. But for the rest of the model I used overlapping UV's to save UV space. I've read on the UDK documentation that this is no problem at all for the texture map, as long as the second lightmap has NO overlapping UV's.
http://www.cgforge.org/02.png
Now here is the model in UDK without specular. As you can see, everthing is working fine, no strange artifacts in the normalmap. It all looks like I want it.
http://www.cgforge.org/03.png
Now see what happons if a put a constant value of 1 in the specular slot of my shader.
http://www.cgforge.org/04.png
You can clearly see strange artifacts matching my texture unwrap. I really don't think there is something wrong with my normal map sinse it works great whithout specular (and it all works fine in 3ds max). Also my second UV set has no overlapping UV's and I doubt there problem is with the second UV channel because you can clearly see the artifacts matching the texture UV map.
What have I tried allready:
I tried mirroring parts of the texture UV map with no success. Checked all teh UV's for mirroring.
I checked my smoothing groups, there all setup correct. I debuged by giving the model just one smooting group, and I still got the strange artifacts matching my UV texture map.
I tried playing with the models settings in UDK. like 'Use Full Precission UV's', 'Use Maximum Streaming Texel Ratio', 'Light Map Resolution' etc.
I pretty much came to the conclusion that it is NOT possible to get my specular right using this texture UV layout. Changing the texture map to a working layout seriuously decreases my UV space making it allmost imposible to get this amount of detail in the model (unless I use a 4096 texture).
So the question is, is there a way to fix this? Or should i Change my texture UV layout to a much less effecient one having the model loose lot's of detail :( There must be a way to get this kind of detail in a model of this size!
Please help me out! This problem is starting to drive me crazy.
I have this really annoying specular problem in UDK. Let me talk you trough it step by step with some images:
This is the model I created in 3dsmax, sinse I really need some high detail in this model's texture map. I figured unwrapping 1/9 of the model, and make it have overlapping UV's.
http://www.cgforge.org/01.png
This is the UV map for the model. As you can see the 'main ring' is just planar mapped, as well as the 'inner ring'. But for the rest of the model I used overlapping UV's to save UV space. I've read on the UDK documentation that this is no problem at all for the texture map, as long as the second lightmap has NO overlapping UV's.
http://www.cgforge.org/02.png
Now here is the model in UDK without specular. As you can see, everthing is working fine, no strange artifacts in the normalmap. It all looks like I want it.
http://www.cgforge.org/03.png
Now see what happons if a put a constant value of 1 in the specular slot of my shader.
http://www.cgforge.org/04.png
You can clearly see strange artifacts matching my texture unwrap. I really don't think there is something wrong with my normal map sinse it works great whithout specular (and it all works fine in 3ds max). Also my second UV set has no overlapping UV's and I doubt there problem is with the second UV channel because you can clearly see the artifacts matching the texture UV map.
What have I tried allready:
I tried mirroring parts of the texture UV map with no success. Checked all teh UV's for mirroring.
I checked my smoothing groups, there all setup correct. I debuged by giving the model just one smooting group, and I still got the strange artifacts matching my UV texture map.
I tried playing with the models settings in UDK. like 'Use Full Precission UV's', 'Use Maximum Streaming Texel Ratio', 'Light Map Resolution' etc.
I pretty much came to the conclusion that it is NOT possible to get my specular right using this texture UV layout. Changing the texture map to a working layout seriuously decreases my UV space making it allmost imposible to get this amount of detail in the model (unless I use a 4096 texture).
So the question is, is there a way to fix this? Or should i Change my texture UV layout to a much less effecient one having the model loose lot's of detail :( There must be a way to get this kind of detail in a model of this size!
Please help me out! This problem is starting to drive me crazy.