thanks you mean the small pebbles one?

I really like the new plants you made Very natural looking.

Good work on the textures. Remember "Practice makes perfect"

Ok today not really a problem but a request of open opinions ....


This is the grass I have been making the last days , I must say that this , altough it may be seeming easy , is what really gived me the biggest problems to get a proper look , I remade textures by scratch at least five or more times , I even downloaded a pay site a texture to check how is done , and finally I decided to go for a personal drawed solution , like I did for the palms ... the problem is that ingame the grass just looks desaturated , light and looses much of the colors , also this coude I add the get color by the texture and then I adjoust the texture blending to 0.5 , wich appears to be the minimum in the settings of the material ... I then copied all settings by crysis , but I still get a difference , in Crysis the textures look more colored and seems that the texture passes more thorught the color filter of the game , while mine altough is very much more saturated , and at Traits I can say it looks better than the crysis texture , it doesn't get out so realistic , or may be I am just pretending to make it too much similar to the crysis grass that I am loosing the focus on mine? May be mine looks enough good but just different?

I have no idea but its the thing that took me the most of the time so far now and I still not yet sure if it looks good or not and if there is a way to improve it ... may be the problem is the way of the texture blending alpha threshold or what?

Anyway enough talking now here is the picture so you can tell me ....

on left there is one single patch placed , on right there are like 5 patches placed in similar place to increase density ....

the informations ofr the model are:

Polys: 1280
Vertices:2008
Textures:1024x1024 tif made by scratch hand drawed nad a bit of pictures

Here is a Preview of my new Custom made Textures for my island , just some , and I am not sure if are all final , but I took lot of time to make and fine tune to have good smooth transitions and a good close distance look , all textures are 2048x2048 , most include parallax mapping and specular mapping ,

the whole list of textures is :


Cliff 3d Distant
Cliff 3d Close 1
Cliff 3d Close 2
Coral 3d
Grass
Ground Pebbles
Ground Stones
Ground Dirt
Rainforest Fresh
Rainforest Dry
Sand Wet
Sand Messy
Sand Grassy
Sand Underwater


There is still one slot for a 15th texture if I am not wrong and I am undecided if to use for the following :

1 Grass long
2 Grass Dry
3 Mud
4 Small Pebbles
5 Ruins pavement
5 Rock

Any suggestions and critiques are very welcome ....

Here some more bushes ...

I think This needed a thread apart couse I cant fix the problem of the voxels not keeping their materials , hereis a cave texture I made for it , but I had to use a terrain texture slot , that of course I could use for something else if voxels could use extra materials that arent just for terrains , so my questions are two :

1 Hw I make the materials stick to the voxels and stay on them even after reloading?
2 Do I need to use only terrain texxtures for texturing voxels or I can use other extra materials and if so how ?

Wip on Cave Textures ....



I am wondering how do I change the colors on the voxels ? Also how do I do to make stick the textures on the voxels ? it's weird couse after I generated textures the voxel textures inside the cave are kept but the ones out on the other rock voxels are not ...

Here I made some experimentation to test the FPS ... here you can read the stats , what's the maximum I should Aim for ?

Looks good but what makes it different to an earth map? I don't see any difference.

Blue Mars is the name of the virtual world, but the individual cities (ie levels) can be any design the developer wants to make. A couple of the demo cities have a Mars theme, and some of the others are named after locations on the real planet, but most are being built to an Earth-like environment.

Here is a Work in progresss on my Rocks , Those are Cliff Rocks , actually only 3 Rocks ....Rotated and placed in different positions .... polycount is around 1000 polys per rock so may be I can make a lod level at 500 ? Worth it or not?

Also I used a tiling of the texture with smart seams positioning on the rock , instead than go with a specific bake on the texture couse this allows me for a higher resolution map to be displayed on the rock , while a baked one would be only the size of the texture ....

Question :

1
lod level at 500 ? Worth it or not?

2
If I make two materials completely identical but one has a tiling of 1 and one of 3 do they have a different load for the engine or considers them the same?
In that case is better to tile the texture on the model and leave one material at 1 or instead tile it in the material so that eventually I can also have different sizes of the rocks according to the dimensions I chose for it I can use different tiled materials of the same type to keep coherence in the texture detail ....


[img]Here is a Work in progresss on my Rocks , Those are Cliff Rocks , actually only 3 Rocks ....Rotated and placed in different positions .... polycount is around 1000 polys per rock so may be I can make a lod level at 500 ? Worth it or not?

Also I used a tiling of the texture with smart seams positioning on the rock , instead than go with a specific bake on the texture couse this allows me for a higher resolution map to be displayed on the rock , while a baked one would be only the size of the texture ....

Question :

1
lod level at 500 ? Worth it or not?

2
If I make two materials completely identical but one has a tiling of 1 and one of 3 do they have a different load for the engine or considers them the same?
In that case is better to tile the texture on the model and leave one material at 1 or instead tile it in the material so that eventually I can also have different sizes of the rocks according to the dimensions I chose for it I can use different tiled materials of the same type to keep coherence in the texture detail ....


3

Can I add any occluder inside the rocks ? In that case can I use any different shaped occluder apart from a cube or plane or primitive inside the rock hidden ? This to save further renderings in the layout of the island when I place them ....

Is credible or may be I need to tune it better somehow?

A wip on My new River Rocks , for those I went instead than a tiled image to a perfectly seamed texture , since the size is smaller and I do not need all this detail spread like for the big cliffs , I am making around 5 stones that rotated can get like 10 , My fear is that for those I will need probably 5 different materials , I hope it won't be an issue tough ...beeing them smaller or anyway the size comparable to an avatar are more or less as poly as the big cliffs but beeing smaller look more detailed and smooth in some parts will have as well lods ....

My work is now on making a seamless normal map , wich doesn't seems a simple task , for me at least , then tune the wet , and dry areas of the stones ...

planning also some other texture variations , using the same shape like for mossy rocks or beach rocks with algae etc....



Comments and suggestions are welcome as always .....

Those are great rocks!

Some work on the Cliffs , I am not sure if look good , I used 5 kind of different cliffs with different resolution level ...


Far , far , middle , middle , closer

Wich are like Rocks , rock blocks , striated blocks , sediments and jungle covers...

very nice map :]