[~ZOMG]

Luckily, hammer updates immediately when you edit the .vmt, so it's pretty easy to get it right.

[Deadchicken]

Many thanks guys, I'll have a play...

[radu_iceman]

UPDATED* New floor tiles and I added some dirt to the tiles, thought I still need to reduce the shine effect.

[Aurora93]

Deadchicken posted:

I'm thinking..... Cave.



Edited:

Oh and what's the vmt value for that seamless scale thing?

Looks like parallax. Good job on the bump.

[Deadchicken]

Yeah, I found this cool little Command Line program that produces them for me... I think I was lucky because the texture lends itself to bumpmapping so easily.

[~ZOMG]

What's the program?

[Firegod522]

CrazyBump probably.

[Deadchicken]

no, it's a little one in which you have to edit the batch file to get it to see the right texture to make a bumpmap for. It's called ShaderMap(TM) CL 1.2.2

Available at: www.shadermap.com

[Crypto356]

Here is one I made from scratch:


But alot of the time, I take existing textures and modify them

[radu_iceman]

Deadchicken posted:

no, it's a little one in which you have to edit the batch file to get it to see the right texture to make a bumpmap for. It's called ShaderMap(TM) CL 1.2.2

Available at: www.shadermap.com

Nice find, though I got used to CrazyBump and SSBump generator.

[Deadchicken]

Crazybump has stopped being free, they asked me for money. So I asked them for the nearest way out...

...And what's SSBump Generator, any good?

[radu_iceman]

Deadchicken posted:

And what's SSBump Generator, any good?

You can find more about it here http://ssbump-generator.yolasite.com/

It's a free program that generates normal maps, non-shadowed ssbump maps, or embed directional ambient occlusion into the image. It's pretty easy to use and the results are pretty good.

[Firegod522]

[Eyefunk]

Nice texture Firegod. The shininess is just right.

[Firegod522]

Phong :science:

[WebOfTrust]

http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.ph...6c600474ef0f06

[T.F.W.O.]

Firegod522 posted:

Phong :science:

You can add phong to world textures?

[glitchvid]

Didn't know you could, either way always though it would look better then making it shiny as if it where coated in water.

[Firegod522]

WebOfTrust posted:

http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.ph...6c600474ef0f06

Yes it is. I don't have to make stuff from scratch.

T.F.W.O. posted:

You can add phong to world textures?

glitchvid posted:

Didn't know you could, either way always though it would look better then making it shiny as if it where coated in water.

Its a model.

[Hellsten]

So brushes/displacements cannot have specular maps?

[Deadchicken]

They can have Spec Maps, just not Phong.

[Hellsten]

How does one specify a specular texture in the VMT?

[Firegod522]

Hellsten posted:

How does one specify a specular texture in the VMT?

"$envmap"

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$envmap

[glitchvid]

Firegod522 posted:

Its a model.

Oh, well... To lazy ...

[Chrille]

Not completely satisfied with it, but its getting there. Oh, and ignore the craptastic lighting and surroundings

[Hellsten]

Add some grime/dust to it.

[Chrille]

Hellsten posted:

Add some grime/dust to it.

What would be a good way to achieve that look? I wouldn't wanna overdo it, since its a part of my own version of the hl2 universe that isn't as gritty.

[thedarkknight7]

Chrille posted:

What would be a good way to achieve that look? I wouldn't wanna overdo it, since its a part of my own version of the hl2 universe that isn't as gritty.

If I were you I'd lower the contrast, decrease the saturation and up the brightness a bit to make it look faded, and maybe make it look a bit torn or something.

[Chrille]

thedarkknight7 posted:

If I were you I'd lower the contrast, decrease the saturation and up the brightness a bit to make it look faded, and maybe make it look a bit torn or something.

I'll try that. Also, does anyone know a way to give it a faint blue glow via editing the vmt?

[Firegod522]

Chrille posted:

I'll try that. Also, does anyone know a way to give it a faint blue glow via editing the vmt?

Would probably work with $selfillum, developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$selfillum

[Chrille]

Firegod522 posted:

Would probably work with $selfillum, developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$selfillum

Thanks!

[~ZOMG]

I'm sure most of you guys know about these, but just in case: http://www.cgtextures.com/content.php?action=tutorials

[BioResearch]

So this is the first texture I tried to make, it's from CG textures but I edited it.

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1458/coppertest1kopie.png
It's mirrored so I can use it on bigger surfaces.

Any idea on how to make this look more natural?

[Firegod522]

Remove the specular around the edges. Make it like one color kind of.

[~ZOMG]

Been working on this for the best part of today:



Made from everything right of the crack of this image, originally from CGTextures:



Edited:

I still need to work on the tiling.

[BioResearch]

Where do I put materials for ep2? It doesnt have a material folder?

[Not_Yet]

make one in half-life 2 episode two/ep2

[Legend286]

BioResearch posted:

So this is the first texture I tried to make, it's from CG textures but I edited it.

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1458/coppertest1kopie.png
It's mirrored so I can use it on bigger surfaces.

Any idea on how to make this look more natural?

Why did you just take a quarter of the base texture and mirror it vertically and then mirror that horizontally?

[BioResearch]

Legend286 posted:

Why did you just take a quarter of the base texture and mirror it vertically and then mirror that horizontally?

Well I didn't like the side of the original and I didn't want that vertical bar on the side because it was only one half. So it's mirrored to make it look prevent it to look like tiles. Yes i know it will still look like a tile but less especially now I used crazybump to change the highlights and shadow a bit.

[Legend286]

BioResearch posted:

Well I didn't like the side of the original and I didn't want that vertical bar on the side because it was only one half. So it's mirrored to make it look prevent it to look like tiles. Yes i know it will still look like a tile but less especially now I used crazybump to change the highlights and shadow a bit.

Why didn't you just make it seamless the proper way?