Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:11 pm
are you planning any extra texture layers like bump maps, diffusion maps, dirt maps or damage maps? or perhaps more importantly team colour maps?
team colour maps would be monochrome and they would show which parts of the model should contain the team colour, pretty important in fps games to distinguish the enemy.
damage maps could be transparent until the person/vehicle/building is damaged. dirt maps would just get more visible over time. bump maps make models look a lot prettier by giving the appearance of greater detail in the model. diffusion maps would make things more or less shiny.
i dont expect you to add all of these, but a subset would improve the look a lot.
the reason i bring this up now, people are already making textures, if you make a dirt map, for example, they will know to keep the dirt off the basic texture, so decide quickly, before its too late and everyone has to start texturing again.
i suggest adding 4, since a texture has 4 colours (red,green,blue,alpha) and you might as well use a whole one.
team colour maps would be monochrome and they would show which parts of the model should contain the team colour, pretty important in fps games to distinguish the enemy.
damage maps could be transparent until the person/vehicle/building is damaged. dirt maps would just get more visible over time. bump maps make models look a lot prettier by giving the appearance of greater detail in the model. diffusion maps would make things more or less shiny.
i dont expect you to add all of these, but a subset would improve the look a lot.
the reason i bring this up now, people are already making textures, if you make a dirt map, for example, they will know to keep the dirt off the basic texture, so decide quickly, before its too late and everyone has to start texturing again.
i suggest adding 4, since a texture has 4 colours (red,green,blue,alpha) and you might as well use a whole one.