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arma3:texturing:basics [2017/01/16 10:06] – created basics initial page. snakemanarma3:texturing:basics [2024/08/03 10:59] (current) – links added. snakeman
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 ====== ArmA 3 Texturing Basics ====== ====== ArmA 3 Texturing Basics ======
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 **CO** is your basic texture, created in Photoshop or whatever your preferred texture editing program is. **CO** is your basic texture, created in Photoshop or whatever your preferred texture editing program is.
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 **NOHQ** is the normal map, most likely baked in 3ds max, modo or similar. There are filter (plugins for Photoshop) to do it manually from the texture (NVIDIA do them somewhere on their website, but the results WILL need tweaking). **NOHQ** is the normal map, most likely baked in 3ds max, modo or similar. There are filter (plugins for Photoshop) to do it manually from the texture (NVIDIA do them somewhere on their website, but the results WILL need tweaking).
  
-**SMDI** is an overall shine/gloss map. The best way I've found to make these is to greyscale the _CO, and adjust the brightness/contrast to make any areas I want to be shiny to become lighter, and any matte areas as dull as possible without losing any texture depth. I then overlay a new layer (filled with R:209 G:24 B:209) with 80% opacity. Within this layer I will also darken areas that are to be matte. Sometimes if fine detail such as scratches need to be highlighted I will then overlay the grey-scaled _CO on top with a lighten blend filter.+**SMDI** is an overall shine/gloss map. The best way I've found to make these is to grayscale the _CO, and adjust the brightness/contrast to make any areas I want to be shiny to become lighter, and any matte areas as dull as possible without losing any texture depth. I then overlay a new layer (filled with R:209 G:24 B:209) with 80% opacity. Within this layer I will also darken areas that are to be matte. Sometimes if fine detail such as scratches need to be highlighted I will then overlay the grey-scaled _CO on top with a lighten blend filter.
  
 **AS** (otherwise known as Ambient Occlusion or AO) can also be baked in 3ds max, modo or similar 3d editing software. **AS** (otherwise known as Ambient Occlusion or AO) can also be baked in 3ds max, modo or similar 3d editing software.
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 Red Channel always 100% White Red Channel always 100% White
  
-Green Channel (Is the "metallic" channel. The whiter the channel, the more metallic an object will be). Put scratches, and grunge into this channel. The more metallic you want, the whiter the scratches are. Adding standard black grunge will give you some actual metal depth, and looks alot better than purely adding it to the diffuse. If you want to do it short and sweet, then hit CTRL-L inside photoshop, and adjust the levels until you get a dark grey object. This channel will make the biggest ingame result, as it also controls how much shine a face has. Think of it like this, the whiter this channel is, the more "chrome" it is+Green Channel (Is the "metallic" channel. The whiter the channel, the more metallic an object will be). Put scratches, and grunge into this channel. The more metallic you want, the whiter the scratches are. Adding standard black grunge will give you some actual metal depth, and looks a lot better than purely adding it to the diffuse. If you want to do it short and sweet, then hit CTRL-L inside photoshop, and adjust the levels until you get a dark grey object. This channel will make the biggest in-game result, as it also controls how much shine a face has. Think of it like this, the whiter this channel is, the more "chrome" it is
  
 Blue Channel is the gloss. Short and sweet is about 60-80% white. But you can get creative and add white to areas of your model you want to have more gloss. Think of a laminated, waxed wood panel floor. Blue Channel is the gloss. Short and sweet is about 60-80% white. But you can get creative and add white to areas of your model you want to have more gloss. Think of a laminated, waxed wood panel floor.
  
-Make sure your base diffuse doesn't have pixel artifacts when converting it to a SMDI, these will showup ingame and look terrible. Rule of thumb is make your diffuse a "solid" color, no "pores" in the paint so to speak+Make sure your base diffuse doesn't have pixel artifacts when converting it to a SMDI, these will showup in-game and look terrible. Rule of thumb is make your diffuse a "solid" color, no "pores" in the paint so to speak
  
 Always remember you can go back into this map and make channel adjustments until you are happy. And it takes time to produce great results, so be patient and practice. Always remember you can go back into this map and make channel adjustments until you are happy. And it takes time to produce great results, so be patient and practice.
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 For AS maps the color channels are supposed to be used like this:\\ For AS maps the color channels are supposed to be used like this:\\
 Red = white color\\ Red = white color\\
-Green = Ambient occlusion texture (greyscale obviously)\\+Green = Ambient occlusion texture (grayscale obviously)\\
 Blue = white color Blue = white color
  
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 Green = Specular map\\ Green = Specular map\\
 Blue = Specular Power map (also known as Gloss map) Blue = Specular Power map (also known as Gloss map)
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