Turning Shadows Off - Page 2

cajomi · 10.March2009

Hi MaxDmg,

what rendersoftware do you have?

Johannes

Arnoldi · 10.March2009

If the sun shines straight done, the only thing the changes the brightness of the light on the terrain is its steepness. Flat Ground will be the brightest, very steep mountain slopes will be darker. So make a shader, that goes from 0° to 90° and use it as a mask for a darkening blue/black shading.

Fenring · 12.March2009

You can also try to export a normal map same res as texture, desaturate it, blend it over the texture with "overlay" or "soft light" in photoshop with exported texture.

mdunakin · 4.June2009

Sounds to me like basically you want the bump map image so that the color map (which like they are telling you to export the color map, and you are seeing that it has no detail) WILL have detail once you combine it with the bump and color maps.

After reading this whole thread, this is the only thing I can see that you are trying to ask about?

The shadows shouldn't be showing up on the color map and this will of course also make the color map look like, as you put it, crap, because it now doesn't have all the detail caused from those shadows. But when you add the bump map or what ever it is that GeoControl puts out, then you should in theory see all the detail come back.

I'm only going by how things sound and how I know 3D in general works.

...................md

4.June2009	#14
mdunakin Benutzer Join Date: 01.09.2008 Posts: 70	Sounds to me like basically you want the bump map image so that the color map (which like they are telling you to export the color map, and you are seeing that it has no detail) WILL have detail once you combine it with the bump and color maps. After reading this whole thread, this is the only thing I can see that you are trying to ask about? The shadows shouldn't be showing up on the color map and this will of course also make the color map look like, as you put it, crap, because it now doesn't have all the detail caused from those shadows. But when you add the bump map or what ever it is that GeoControl puts out, then you should in theory see all the detail come back. I'm only going by how things sound and how I know 3D in general works. ...................md __________________ MD arts Mark Dunakin md@md-arts.com http://www.md-arts.com

10.March2009	#11
cajomi Administrator Join Date: 10.06.2006 Location: Essen Germany Posts: 1.321	Hi MaxDmg, what rendersoftware do you have? Johannes

10.March2009	#12
Arnoldi Neuer Benutzer Join Date: 17.12.2007 Location: Germany, NRW Posts: 4	If the sun shines straight done, the only thing the changes the brightness of the light on the terrain is its steepness. Flat Ground will be the brightest, very steep mountain slopes will be darker. So make a shader, that goes from 0° to 90° and use it as a mask for a darkening blue/black shading.

12.March2009	#13
Fenring Neuer Benutzer Join Date: 10.12.2007 Posts: 18	You can also try to export a normal map same res as texture, desaturate it, blend it over the texture with "overlay" or "soft light" in photoshop with exported texture.