Shiny roads

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Shiny roads

02-01-2010, 09:52 PM,

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MirceaKitsune Offline

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*bump* I found a nightly build made after the specular map issue, so I could do the shiny maps for all official tracks today. I added discrete reflections for all roads and strong reflections for building windows as well as water (see the water in Monaco).

I posted some screenshots in my gallery: http://vdrift.net/Gallery/album.php?aid=76 Note that the first three pictures were taken while editing, the road isn't that shiny anymore (it looks like the other screenshots now). The patch can be downloaded from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ijyz4xnznkg alt link http://upload.ps/oyuna4d9ujl1/vdrift_tra...ons.7z.htm Imo it should be good, if this change is alright and wanted.

In case anyone wishes to make specular maps for other textures and follow the same steps, this is how I obtained mine using Photoshop CS2:

1 - Copy the texture and rename it to filename-misc1.png.

2 - In Photoshop go to Image -> Adjustments and Desaturate the image. Occasionally you may want to invert the colors as well, depending on what area you want to have more reflective.

3 - Go to Adjustments -> Brightness/Contrast to adjust the strength of the reflection. Generally, setting the contrast high will make it more grainy. For the road textures I usually put -50 Brightness with +25 Contrast.

4 - Go to Hue/Saturation, enable the Colorize checkbox and set Hue to 0, Saturation to 100 and Lightness to -50. This will make it red like specular maps for vdrift are supposed to be.

Hope this is good and can be committed... let me know what you think please Smile