AshuraDX

Both of course!

 

In all honesty, for a proper 'dirty armor' feel the best way is to create a clean version first anyway and then scratch-dirt-blood it up to heck in Photoshop. So if you wanted to create battle-worn version you would pretty much have to create a clean one anyway.

Or you use fancy software, setup a procedural wear effect and have it wear your paint while you're painting, then finetune in a second painting pass

 

Can be doen in gimp and photoshop aswell, just takes a bit more work to setup

 

EDIT:

 

this was produced by applieing various different filters and adjustments to the curvature map of my clone models torso.

At most it would likely be taken down correct? I wouldn't think they would actually sue me.

while it's not likely to happen they COULD potentially decide to do it

@@Seven slight differences

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/7/7c/Clonearmor_negwt.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20060808183103

the hand plate is different, shoulder pads, upper arm armor, slighty different torso armor but nothing that'd be too much work

 

Well isn't it ok if I put it in link in the forum?

putting a link here won't save you from trouble if a any company sues you for violating their EULA/Copyright by spreading their content for free.

 

But JKHub.org remains mostly uneffected in this case since we're not hosting the file.

@@Circa this model will become my "fall back/filler project" for boredom.

 

I have plans to make additional helmets and including a phase 1 style helmet is not that big of a deal

@@Lancelot nailed it, incase you were wondering YES the mask will change

 

here's a shader test:

Patterns are stock images, the game version will be updated with more movie accurate patterns

 

EDIT:

Let's see if someone, excluding those I've allready told, can guess who this will become

 

seeing that this sculpt is allmost finished it shouldn't be too hard to guess

@@Seven there may be a way to do the covnersion in Blender - but you'd have to look that up

@@minilogoguy18 made a new one and i textured it, i don't think he ever released it tho.

 

 

 

that's the physical Reaver, the file OP is looknig for is the ghost form

@@Seven do you have normal maps for the TFU heads? if you do you can use them to improve the currently very flat look of the textures.

 

To do that get Xnormal first, once you have that export the head you ported as a .obj (hair and what else mgiht use the same textures included).

 

Open Xnormal and go to Tools and look for the Object/Tangent space converter, run that and load the exported head as the lowpoly mesh, load your normal map as the input normal map and set the converter to "convert tangent space to object space".

 

if done correctly it will produce an image that looks similiar to this.

 

if you have that, open the head texture and your new object space normal map in Gimp or whatever else you use for skinning, first take a look at the Object space map.

 

Disable the Red and blue Color channels (leaving you with the green channel), you should see that the upwards facing areas are lightly colored while the down facing areas are dark. Select everything and copy this over to the head texture (on a new layer)

set that Layers blendmode to "soft light" and decrease the opacity to about 60%

Now you'll do the same with the blue channel of the object space normal map, copy it over to a new layer and set that layer to "multiplay" and about 30% opacity, this should darken the backside of the models textures.

 

sounds doable?

@@minilogoguy18 any chance you have the spectral reaver saber?

going by other pictures from that album @@Jeff might be your man

Neat, I wonder how/if it handles custom normals

By the way, @@Seven. Would you mind doing a fix on this Samurai Darth Vader that was made by dark_apprentice on here? The only issue there is on this model in the game is the crest on his forehead. And can also you remove the flag on it's back so it would be optional to use him with or without the flag? Samurai Vader Download

 

If my theory about what causes this is right, a shader with the line "cull disable" or "cull twosided" should be able to fix it.

 

Just identify the texture that's used for the crest and if it allready has a shader add the line to the entry for the used texture or if it does not have shaders:

 

create a new folder "shaders", in that create a plain text file (.txt) and write the following in that:

models/players/"modelname"/"texture"
{
    cull twosided
    q3map_nolightmap
    {
        map models/players/"modelname"/"texture"
        blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ZERO
        rgbGen lightingDiffuse
    }
}

Just replace the "modelname" with the nme of the folder that holds the samurai vader skin, and "texture" with the name of the imagefile used for the crest.

Sorry if you had already mentioned those "issues" were gonna be fixed down the road, i found it strange that you'd let them slip through. I don't use substance but it looks like its baking a spec map and overlaying it on top of the diffuse, pretty neat feature.

Not exactly, I'm processing a channel from the wsp normals through 2 different Gradient maps, mask the second gradient using another channel and finally set flat areas facing along the base axis to 50% grey.

 

My smart material eats PBR(Albedo, Metal, Roughness, Height/bump) maps and a bunch of baked maps (AO, Curvature, WSP Normals) and spits out a Diffuse and a spec map for JKA. Being a Smart material it offers a ton of Input Parameters for you to adjust stuff as you see fit.

 

To handle Skin it can be fed a Thickness and an ID map, if the skin option is active it'll add some fake SSS and tint the baked lighting for the skin areas slightly using to 2 variable Blood and Shadow colors.

 

The biggest problem atm is handling non metallic areas in the spec map, but I think I can fix that by adding an additional input that takes a base spec map that contains specular base values.

 

About the models issues:

I did not mention them here before, I wanted to get a first Release out for the community, as I figured that since I plan to add new stuff anyway I can allways go back and do a few fixes

@@Psyk0Sith the feature is in place, I'l have to load a custom reflection gradient to make it look good though

Really like these, a lot of care went into their creation and it shows.

 

-My only gripe for the blaster is the lack of specularity painted in the diffuse. Looks like a cement material instead of shiny plastic, you have to "push" the diffuse in older engines and paint light / cast shadows too, AO alone won't work as good unfortunately.

-Is there any reason why the utility belt on the trooper is not fully weighted the pelvis? It seems kind of odd to have those hard shapes deform like rubber.

1. yup, I have a bent normal map overlay in there, but it's not enough. The textures are converted PBR materials I sent through my substance material, which in essence does this, while offering a few more features. It actually has a feature to produce a sort of metallic specular reflection, but that is currently locked to the y-axis as it was mainly intended to be used for sabers, here' an early WIP shot of that feature - tested with one of @@Rooxon's sabers. Adding an option to ick the base axis for the reflection is on my to-do list for this smart material.

2. it was skinwrapped, I'll fix it in a next update. I allready amde the bottom halves of the boxes rigid by weighting them exclusively to the pelvis, but didn't want the boxes to clip through the torso too much so I kept the top vertices slightly weighted to the lower lumbar

 

Edit: If you happen to use substance painter and/or Designer shoot me a pm and I'll pass you the material for testing.

it's out!

outfitted with new blaster sounds by @

I finished the effects for the DC15:

an update, click image for the full album

 

did some optimization to reduce the vert&tri count aswell as started on new effects, looking for good blaster sounds atm so if you have something, let me know!

@ Scerendo not saying anything is "wrong" with it, I just realised that I can use it way more flexible in painter than you could use it in player - and decided I'd add a feature to give you more flexibility too

 I don't blame, you did an amazing job nevertheless.

In any case, if you ever feel like changing your mind the most noticable grip is the headshape being too eggish.

that could have happened while chopping down the models geometrical detail (both versions are a reduced version of the model I worked with while texturing)

 

EDIT: @@Some I just moved the clone blaster model we're hosting to your account, are there toher files on JKHub you made? if so I'll move them from the JKHub account

I see. Yes it looks much better this way :] I don't know what other good options rend 2 have.

Specular is from original. I noticed AshuraDX's texture scheme https://jkhub.org/images/BfZjGlt.png , but I didn't figured out how Specular from mudbox should connect yet.

should just have used Girs spec map isntead of making a new one

@@Scerendo I think you mgiht want to go in and edit the levels on the AO for her body scarf thing

you have some insanely strong, deep shadows there that one wouldn't expect on a piece of cloth like this

 

in Substance Painter I could mask the scarf to a sepperate instance of the smart material, I might go ahead and create a improved graph version with 3 maskable instances of the material for you

@@Some this helmet is final

I do plan to add alternate helmets in the future