New Dwarven Pride Normal Maps

Hammerhorde · 23. February 2011, 11:25

I didn`t like the bumps maps for the pride armor so I made new more natural looking ones. The old maps had too much highlight reflection and not enough base. My goal was to make it shiny and uniform to where it looked good dyed different colors and take away that awful reflection the stock textures give.

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youngneil1 · 23. February 2011, 12:25

Wow - looks impressive, Hammerhorde! Will try it later in game.

Any news on those models from TW1 - would be fine if this would work out in the end.

JamieSI · 23. February 2011, 12:36

Mirrored this on Strategy Informer for you - http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/t...mod/38386.html

Hammerhorde · 23. February 2011, 12:54

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Originally Posted by youngneil1

Wow - looks impressive, Hammerhorde! Will try it later in game.

Any news on those models from TW1 - would be fine if this would work out in the end.

I have used a couple weapons from tw1 but they still look flat. They don`t look bad but once you get used to seeing the new weapons and the way they look, holding a ported one looks dated. Can`t really do anything else unless they have a nifscope type tool so I can turn the highlight on in the models. They will probably release some more old weapons in expansions if they make any.

youngneil1 · 23. February 2011, 13:47

They officially announced that the next project will be indeed an Addon or DLC for TW2 - so yeah, we can be optimistic in that regard.

Jonathan Kent · 24. February 2011, 03:59

I can't seem to view the pic. But anyway, nice idea working on this. I also didn't like the way they glittered. I was about to make some changes myself but you beat me to it

Hammerhorde · 24. February 2011, 05:27

Yeah the old normals almost gave it a feaky shiny sandstone effect. I loved the armor from the first game and am glad they put it in this one but when I saw that texture it had to go.

I am now currently working on a new texture design for the set that removes those tribal tatoo looking designs. Might look cool on your arm but on my full plate its gotta go. Going to replace it with a more period type gothic italian style design.

Jonathan Kent · 24. February 2011, 13:44

That's sounds great Hammerhorde. Might do some texturing myself this weekend. It's always great to have more options in terms of content.

On an unrelated note. Lately it seems that every pics posted in forums using Imageshack always displays as an icon saying: Domain Unregistered. To view, register at bla..bla..

I don't know why this happened. It must be as recent as yesterday because I never had this problem before. Do any of you know what might be causing this?

Sorry Hammerhorde for posting this question in your thread. I just wanna be able to see pics again

Ambrose · 24. February 2011, 16:35

@jonathan kent: I'm not register (as for as I remember) and I can watch them.

@Hammerhorde: I don't know if it's possible, but I know some texture designing modders work with for example Photoshop. Could it be possible to restyle the old texture and make them look better or are other tools needed? (I'm a noob when it comes to texturing, when I wanted to try it out my computer couldn't handle it, never tried it again xD)

Hammerhorde · 25. February 2011, 01:43

The old games textures were nice but compared to the new ones they don`t look as good ingame. I thought about using the old textures and adapting them onto this armor set but I don`t think it looked as good . i only tried the chestpart on the breastplate but the detail level between the two we very noticable. And we want to keep the detail level just have the old feel. I am working on a completely new set of detailed textures for the dwarven set. Will take some time but when I feel they are done i will throw em up for download.

@John
Not sure why it gives you the error. Maybe you need some browser plugin update to view them or something.