CGTalk - Total Textures Test

Geespot

08-15-2003, 11:31 AM

I ordered the Total Textures CD's this week and when they arrived I was very happy with the content. So Happy I made this pointless image just showing off a couple of textures that come with it.

My main focus here was with the textures, the glass is just a simple object that I placed in there to 'fill' the scene up a bit (I think the shadow is too dark for it)
Here I was experimenting on Textures/Dirt Maps and Shadow Maps. I also used the built in Sharpen Filter Post Effect.

View it here
1024x768 400k

[EDIT]
Changed Link, Don't need to be logged in Renderosity now
http://www.geearea.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/GalleryImage470990.jpg

JIII

08-16-2003, 01:50 AM

nice but personally i think the sharpen thing was not a great idea.

its a good image though very nice.

VestanPance

08-16-2003, 09:08 PM

Geespot: In the future you may want to post the pic on a different server. I could not access the pic until I went and logged in over at Renderosity. I got an error before I did that.

The picture: I think the glass material is real good. The antialiasing needs to be bumped up and it looks to me that you are going a bit "bump channel" crazy. LIghten up on the intensity of the bump and I think it will balance out the image.

Geespot

08-16-2003, 09:40 PM

Oops didn't know you had to be logged in Renderosity to see images. Next time i'll just use my own ISP space.

Yea you right about "bump channel crazy", I set them all at 30% or higher, and the it really shows with the sharpen filter :hmm:

JIII: Heres an earlier version of the image without the sharpen filter

http://www.geearea.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/glassrender.jpg

I was in the process in making a Glass material on that one, as you can see the early attempts were rather poor :D

AdamT

08-16-2003, 10:35 PM

Rather than sharpen the textures in PS--which can give you halos and enhance .jpg artifacts--try using Square interpolation rather than MIP in Cinema. Or if you want to use MIP, turn the scale setting to something between -50 and -100. Circle works works well for bumps, as does square.

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