This often influenced character designs (artists would try and hide the seams behind shoulder pads and such), while also making violent games where characters were blown limb-from-limb, or had swappable limbs, very easy to create.
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By placing the pivots at joins, and parenting the limb segments to each other, characters were able to be animated without the need for skeletons or skin weights. If you have any preexisting heightmaps or alpha maps sitting around, obviously this works for them too, but I like making my own.Display opacity with vertex alpha via shaderFX material where "Color Set Index" = 1 (makes RGB outputs source from alpha), and then connect R, G, or B value to opacity (the nodes alpha output itself is worthless).Ĭharacter rigging via Parenting: In the early days of realtime 3D character bodies were often split up so that each limb was a separate mesh with its own pivot ( example). For extra craggliness or grunginess, I often use the Emboss tool in Gimp to create sort of a fake cavity/height map on top of the final image. With some help from a friend I've set up a scene where I can create a 3D brick pattern, and use the shader editor to create different lighting styles which will bake and export as "ambient occlusion", "depth", and "highlights" (there's lots of different baking options out there, those are just the barebones ones I'm using right now). When I throw these all into GIMP, I blend these lighting passes on just a plain base texture usually "linear burn" for AO+depth and "additive" for highlights (antialiasing or noise reduction can smooth out the jagged edges of the lighting maps). I'm still kind of experimenting myself, but the method I'm settling on is using Blender not to output the texture itself but to create heightmaps and lighting passes which I can throw onto any base texture I want. It's more complicated than your average texture creation pipeline, but the possibilities are limitless. What do you use, do you have any pointers about that method?
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I've thought about overlaying normals/heightmaps before, I have a whole variety of them sitting in my folder ready to be used, but haven't quite committed to it yet, although I have a pretty good idea of how to do it. Workflow was all over the place with this one, but the result had me very excited. From there I dropped it into Aesprite to pixel-push the edges in order to get it to x tile. I made sure to crop it to a power of 2 and then I took it into Pixatool and did things like: index it to the doom pallet, colour/lighting/sharpness and general destructive effects, and crushed it down to 256x256. This was an initial test, so I would frame and light the existing model, pose the camera and render the image at a high resolution. : Oh, oops! I forgot to post the GIMP file. The issue with Doom's regular grout is that it is too grid-like, real grout tends to be irregular and thick, because it is what joins the bricks together it's not very easy to explain, but hopefully it'll be easier with this.
² More info on the Doom palette in GIMP here. ¹ Downscale interpolation never blurs, and it'll smooth many potentially distracting straggler pixels that way too From there you can export to PNG, or select all (Ctrl+A), copy (Ctrl+C), and then in Doomworld or Imgur etc, paste as an image buffer (Ctrl+V). Then, merge all layers (Ctrl+M), downscale to 256x256 setting the interpolation to Cubic¹, and set it to be the Doom palette² using Image -> Mode -> Indexed. Grab this file, extract it, and open it in GIMP, then use the bucket fill tool to change the colour of the entire "Colour" layer (within the "Highlights" layer group). To change the highlight colour is simple and easy if you already have GIMP installed. I even have a variant with strong yellow for big daddy Ribbiks~ I also sprinkled some slight highlights, one in bland white (for colored sectors), another in blue, and a few more with other such colours.
I used the good old nearest-neighbors trick to add lighting smoothly.
No smoothing or shading, just wanted to see how it looked. Took your base and added the standard grout from BIGBRIK2.
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