HALO's Bump Mapping....WOW!

[metal_head]

During my holiday I was playing HALO (the first one) on my laptop,to take a look of the effects the game is using.I took 2 screenshots of the bump mapping in the game.And I wan to ask if this can be done in RF,becuase the bump mapping I know makes the textured brush look kind of wet and very shiny.

Take a look of the pics:

[Juutis]

I think it's the specular map that's making it shiny. Try bump mapping without the specular map.

[Allanon]

Here is a link to tutorials on how to create bump maps for Halo CE and they include some of the textures and bump maps, give them a try with RF.

http://www.earthenrecords.com/bumpmaptut/hard.htm

[metal_head]

Thanks a lot,I will and I'll post the result !!

[metal_head]

OK,so here's what I did:
I downloaded 2 of the sample textures from the site,resized them and renamed them.
the base texture I renamed to BM0_wall.bmp and the bumpmap I renamed to BMB_wall.bmp.
I think it's OK now,but I'm not sure,because the texture comes out too dark.Maybe I'm doing something wrong,take a look of it.I uploaded the result picture and the textures.

what makes the texture so black? I have no idea...

[Dante]

well it looks like it assigned the 'bright' areas wrong in the screen... maybe u should use another bummap? i dont know

[metal_head]

well,from what I tried and read in theforums,I saw that RF doesn't support dot3 bump mapping on brushes ,it only supports enviroment mapping..but it's not the end of the world I can go on without dot3

[Danimita92]

Bump mapping can be done on brushes, jsut look at Zidane's game (Skullcrack)

[metal_head]

that's enviroment bump mapping,not dot3,right? I need dot3 bump mapping for the ground or for caves in my game.

[paradoxnj]

Why do you need DOT3?

[metal_head]

I need it to make the ground of some outside levels,also I have a level in a laboratory,but before you reach the laboratory,you'll have to make your way through a cave and DOT3 would be a great way to make the cave's walls.Enviroment bump mapping only makes surfaces look shiny and wet..

[Zidane]

Here, somo examples of enviromental mapping (i think that it is cool for caves):

http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 009fa7.jpg
http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 004gq6.jpg
http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 005lj0.jpg

Here you can see the Dot3 (not cool for brushes):
http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 001cy1.jpg

Well, if you want use dot3 for caves wall, you can use act walls and input on the level with StaticEntityProxy

[metal_head]

yeah,the enviroment bump mapping looks good (where did you get thoose awesome textures),but the walls look wet and shiny,and I need something like the picture thewre,I'll try making the level and act model,but I'm not sure if that's a good Idea,because dot3 on 3d models,makes them pretty dark.