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[Emeka Uwazurike]

Not sure if anyone here still follows JeanLuc761, he was the first modder I followed, but only had mods for ME2. A few of the ME2 squad textures we use here were retrofitted from his work. Well he just released his first ME3 mod a few days ago and luckily, its one we don't yet have here, Tali.

http://social.biowar.../index/13422555

Modifié par Emeka Uwazurike, 02 août 2012 - 03:50 .

[Guiile_Sheppard]

man your me2 texture is impressive ... using your tali in me3 btw =P GJ!

[Dead_Meat357]

Apparently the imported textures don't feature normal maps. He's doing ports of his own of those into ME3 with some other changes.

[Fredy AG]

Guiile_Sheppard wrote...

someone promissed in this topic N7 HD PACK ahahaha =X

I have nearly finished with the demolisher, the multiplayer armors are very difficult to improve (because of the way of customization, I think). Last night I thought it would end, but today I will try to improve it a little more. But what I have advanced, it looks quite acceptable.

@DodgersDude99 is working for several days in the rest of the characters, I think we will soon have, thanks to him, the rest of the characters. I have only available the demolisher DESTROYER and the Paladin.

I have not had much luck in finding those characters on packages of spectrum, but yesterday, I found the demolisher DESTROYER in a veteran pack. 

Salu2.

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Modifié par smarteck, 03 août 2012 - 12:42 .

[Dead_Meat357]

smarteck wrote...

Guiile_Sheppard wrote...

someone promissed in this topic N7 HD PACK ahahaha =X

I have nearly finished with the demolisher, the multiplayer armors are very difficult to improve (because of the way of customization, I think). Last night I thought it would end, but today I will try to improve it a little more. But what I have advanced, it looks quite acceptable.

@DodgersDude99 is working for several days in the rest of the characters, I think we will soon have, thanks to him, the rest of the characters. I have only available the demolisher and the Paladin.

I have not had much luck in finding those characters on packages of spectrum, but yesterday, I found the demolisher in a veteran pack. 

Salu2.

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The main thing is to leave the light map the default color. If you don't, it won't customize correctly. Smartek's male soldier texture is that way. He went with the green tint instead of the orange, and you can't do metalic color schemes anymore.

Example: Try a black base coat on any armor. Then use any color as a highlight color and you'll end up with a metalic looking color scheme. After loading Smartek's male soldier MP texture, I can't do that. It basically kills the highlight colors entirely. I can adjust the base color, but not the highlights. They are washed out by the base color now.

This is why you don't get creative with the lighting layers in this game. Doing so creates odd artifacts, extra lights, and either makes things too reflective or kills the reflective aspect of the item entirely. Whatever color the original lightmap is supposed to be is what you need to strive for.

[Fredy AG]

Dead_Meat357 wrote...

The main thing is to leave the light map the default color. If you don't, it won't customize correctly. Smartek's male soldier texture is that way. He went with the green tint instead of the orange, and you can't do metalic color schemes anymore.

Example: Try a black base coat on any armor. Then use any color as a highlight color and you'll end up with a metalic looking color scheme. After loading Smartek's male soldier MP texture, I can't do that. It basically kills the highlight colors entirely. I can adjust the base color, but not the highlights. They are washed out by the base color now.

This is why you don't get creative with the lighting layers in this game. Doing so creates odd artifacts, extra lights, and either makes things too reflective or kills the reflective aspect of the item entirely. Whatever color the original lightmap is supposed to be is what you need to strive for.

Demolisher DESTROYER is different .. by default is completely green. The customization works well on him, only I need to improve the quality of the metal of his armor, I think I'll have to replace it completely.
But you mentioned about the normal soldier, it is true, the problem is that without that shade of green, metal texture is not noticeable. Perhaps with the Demolisher DESTROYER I discover something and can correct that MOD.

Salu2. 

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Modifié par smarteck, 03 août 2012 - 12:54 .

[Fredy AG]

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Rectify, I'm working on the Destroyer, before, I mixed up their names. Sorry for my English, their names appear to be synonyms.

I'm doing this:




Salu2. 

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Modifié par smarteck, 03 août 2012 - 07:30 .

[Guiile_Sheppard]

cant wait Smarteck!

[Fredy AG]

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Okay, Destroyer is done.

As GoldenSkans9 said, these Armors / Suits are very difficult to improve, twice the work that from the story mode.


After much work I think it looks great. 




































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> N7 Destroyer Soldier RED Mask HR 4096: www.mediafire.com/

> N7 Destroyer Soldier GOLD Mask HR 4096: www.mediafire.com/

> N7 Destroyer Soldier BLUE Mask HR 4096: www.mediafire.com/



Salu2. 


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Modifié par smarteck, 04 août 2012 - 01:14 .

[Guiile_Sheppard]

OMG cant wait to get home to test this x.x

GOOOD job smarteck and goldenskans *-*

how about going for n7 slayer? *-*

[DJepic112]

Smartteck, are you skilled at working with face/skin textures? I want to ask you something. I'm having trouble finding anyone willing to help me.

[Dead_Meat357]

smarteck wrote...

Dead_Meat357 wrote...

The main thing is to leave the light map the default color. If you don't, it won't customize correctly. Smartek's male soldier texture is that way. He went with the green tint instead of the orange, and you can't do metalic color schemes anymore.

Example: Try a black base coat on any armor. Then use any color as a highlight color and you'll end up with a metalic looking color scheme. After loading Smartek's male soldier MP texture, I can't do that. It basically kills the highlight colors entirely. I can adjust the base color, but not the highlights. They are washed out by the base color now.

This is why you don't get creative with the lighting layers in this game. Doing so creates odd artifacts, extra lights, and either makes things too reflective or kills the reflective aspect of the item entirely. Whatever color the original lightmap is supposed to be is what you need to strive for.

Demolisher DESTROYER is different .. by default is completely green. The customization works well on him, only I need to improve the quality of the metal of his armor, I think I'll have to replace it completely.
But you mentioned about the normal soldier, it is true, the problem is that without that shade of green, metal texture is not noticeable. Perhaps with the Demolisher DESTROYER I discover something and can correct that MOD.

Salu2. 

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Actually, you can correct the problem on the soldier. I've tested it. Unfortunately, you have to do twice the work as you have to edit each texture the same way. Manually in fact. But I can actually make the metallic textures work and show the work done.

[Fredy AG]

Dead_Meat357 wrote...

Actually, you can correct the problem on the soldier. I've tested it. Unfortunately, you have to do twice the work as you have to edit each texture the same way. Manually in fact. But I can actually make the metallic textures work and show the work done.

How have you solved?


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[Lokiwithrope]

This thread is incredible! The detail and the fixes... my mouth just waters at it.

[Razhathael]

All those awesome multiplayer armor textures. Makes me really wish someone could add them to Shepard's armory.

[MajorKusanagi]

sry if somebody already asked b4,but does anybody know why i cant get the fxaa tool to work with texmod?
both programs run fine alone,but the moment i try running both at the same time,the game crashes at titlescreen.
and thumbs up for those great mods,really love them.

[Dead_Meat357]

smarteck wrote...

Dead_Meat357 wrote...

Actually, you can correct the problem on the soldier. I've tested it. Unfortunately, you have to do twice the work as you have to edit each texture the same way. Manually in fact. But I can actually make the metallic textures work and show the work done.

How have you solved?


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It varies based on the complexity of the texture. The short answer is to make sure that the new light map (red / orange / green / multicolor) texture is perfectly color matched to the original light map. Also, the layer that consists of primary colors and nothing else? Don't touch that. There is no detail lost or gained by that. It's a color filter and nothing else. This is most notably used on things that you can change the color of like Shepard's armors, weapons, or multiplayer characters. Leave it alone. You don't need to edit that. No detail is lost or gained by doing it, and unlike squad mate armors in the single player game, the texture map doesn't necessarily control light sources on the object. Again that's the funny looking layer with red, green or other plain color textures in non-detailed patterns. You don't need to touch it.

And the key to ensuring that your textures and changes appear right on the mesh is to make a good normal map. I can't stress this enough. The stock normal maps will obscure your work. Same as a difference in the light map will. Wadres said a long time ago that you have to get all three textures done right or it won't matter how good your texture layer is. The more I do this, the more that truth is burned into my mind.

Now, some textures are very forgiving about that. And just a texture and light map change does look good, but on stuff that you do not necessarily rebuilt entirely, you've got to have that normal map. I've noticed that many of your mods don't have them. I know Darkfalkon has done some for you in the past or InBleedingRapture did them too. There is a trick to it which he tried to teach me and it took me forever to get it down right. My two mods with the best lighting properties are the N7 Defender armor and the Collector Armor. That's all the normal maps at work.
 
Your texture work is awesome. Do not get me wrong. I love your work. But adding normal maps makes them even better. I can make them for you if need be. Believe it or not making a normal map is the FASTEST thing to do for these mods. It takes me about 2 minutes to make one.

Your soldier texture has the light map in green. This is where the problem actually is on that mod. It needs to be orange, with parts like the area around the eyes in green. It needs a normal map because the stock game normal is fuzzy. Do those two things and the color customizations will work as they did before and it will look good. The texture looks good. But the reason you can't see anything is due to the way the light map and stock normal map change it.

Every texture is a bit different too. The N7 Destroyer as you pointed out is supposed to do what your soldier mod does. The highlight colors BARELY change anything. That's how it is in the stock game. The soldier on the other hand isn't.

Update:

I am testing Ashley 1.5. She has a new carbon fiber texture on her shoulders and upper chest and I fixed an area on her arm which I literally didn't edit correctly on the earlier versions. You can't normally see it, but trust me, I screwed up BAD. I have remedied this problem. I will give Liara's armor the same treatment. This is the same brand new carbon fiber texture I did for the Defender Armor and the Collector Armor. It matches the scale of the default carbon fiber texture in the game as perfectly as I think is likely possible.

It looks GREAT in my opinion but I'll let you guys be the judge of that. I'm also going to be releasing the Cerberus Harrier shortly as well.

Modifié par Dead_Meat357, 04 août 2012 - 04:16 .

[SSV Enterprise]

Hey, I can't seem to get texmod to work. I try the batch file and Texmod tells me "AWC.dll load failed". Anyone know how to fix this?

[Hobbit]

Have you tried inserting QualityBloom=True, FilmGrain=True, LightEnvironmentShadows=True and EnableLightEnvSHLights=True into Gamersettings.ini and increasing resolution in the same ini? It gave me really nice effect.

[Guiile_Sheppard]

jhgu wrote...

Have you tried inserting QualityBloom=True, FilmGrain=True, LightEnvironmentShadows=True and EnableLightEnvSHLights=True into Gamersettings.ini and increasing resolution in the same ini? It gave me really nice effect.

are u using the ilumination fxaa tool 1.5 by smareck ? plus this configs? can u post some screens ???

[Guiile_Sheppard]

GoldenSkans9 , thank u sooo muchhhhhhhh! omg PALADIN looks great now *-*

btw,
waiting for the cerberus harrier retex. i think it is the most powerfull rifle oO