High Details!

[aversive]

Hello,


I would like to know, how I can correctly put a lot of detail on my model, without having to deform the actual mesh of my model. What I mean by that, is using Projection Master and bumpviewmaterial to get the details onto your mesh. Without using Zadd/Zcut.


I heard you have to use grayscale palette, but I do not know what this would mean. How do I have to work with that in bumpview?


Here's an example of my meshed based details below. I cannot have a lot of polygons, and the details are square-like on some areas of the model. But I've considered using this bumpview approach. So now I am asking if anyone could explain me how to properly work with it.

Maybe Aurick could help? Anyone?


Thanks for your help!

[Silhouette93]

Well, you could save your model. Then go up into lots of polygons and add lots of juicy details. Then download Zmapper and create a normal map. Wahla! Detail without changing polygons!
Heres (http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5250882044750048506&q=normalmap) a video I made demonstrating it if you dont know

Hope this helps :D

[Jason Belec]

Quite a few examples on the forum for this request. This was a good video supplied by Silhouette93 though. ;)

[aversive]

Thanks for your replies, but I'm afraid that is not the answer I was quite looking for. What you suggested was not the method I wanted to use. I cannot get up to 1 million polys. My PC won't make over that. Then the details aren't even clear. They're all blocky, with Zadd and the other mesh-editing tools.

I hear that with bumpviewmaterial you do not need to go at a big poly-count to get really rich details. Is this true? If so, how do I exactly do that? (Keep in mind, that this not have to do anything with the mesh tools).

So, anyone?

[aversive]

Okay, so now it worked. But I still get ugly noise details from it. How come? Should I set resolution higher or something? My texture is 2048, so that wouldn't be the problem.

[aversive]

Here a screenshot of the model again. With bumpview and 'details' applied. Only the problem now is that the detail ain't showing optimally. How can I increase detail resolution for bumpview?

[x-titan]

I had the same problem, and the secret is to increase the resolution of your texture before you go into projection master. Since the bumpmap is viewed as a texture map higher resolution = more detail. Give it a try :)