Talk:Texture Formats - Revision history

Nezroy at 15:40, 26 March 2010

2010-03-26T15:40:53Z

Nezroy: specular map discussion

2010-03-26T15:40:36Z

specular map discussion

Eshme at 06:09, 8 February 2010

2010-02-08T06:09:56Z

Freebeers at 15:34, 7 February 2010

2010-02-07T15:34:37Z

Freebeers: Created page with 'To be clear. A 'black and white normal map' is actually a 'displacement map.' I think it's confusing that you call a b&w texture, that fakes geometry height, a 'normal map' and...'

2010-02-07T15:33:39Z

Created page with 'To be clear. A 'black and white normal map' is actually a 'displacement map.' I think it's confusing that you call a b&w texture, that fakes geometry height, a 'normal map' and...'

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To be clear.
A 'black and white normal map' is actually a 'displacement map.'
I think it's confusing that you call a b&w texture, that fakes geometry height, a 'normal map' and
a RGB texture, that fakes geometry height and position, a 'RGB normal map'
B&W = displacement
RGB = normal
-Freebeers

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 *No its actually a normal map too. Its a normal map because it stores normals. That some are colorful, others are not is of no matter. Its just grey because of different channel assignment. I think the descriptions RGB and B&W could get a workover. RGB is the standard format. B&W is the Bioware format. [[User:Eshme|Eshme]] 06:09, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
-=== Specular Maps ===
+== Specular Maps ==
 It appears to me that the specular map RGB channels are not 3 unrelated maps as implied by the 4 packed-maps descriptin, but instead simply control the color of the specular highlight. The alpha seems to control the intensity of the highlight. Can anyone else confirm or rebuke that based on their experience/experiments? [[User:Nezroy|Nezroy]] 15:40, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

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	*No its actually a normal map too. Its a normal map because it stores normals. That some are colorful, others are not is of no matter. Its just grey because of different channel assignment. I think the descriptions RGB and B&W could get a workover. RGB is the standard format. B&W is the Bioware format. [[User:Eshme\|Eshme]] 06:09, 8 February 2010 (UTC)		*No its actually a normal map too. Its a normal map because it stores normals. That some are colorful, others are not is of no matter. Its just grey because of different channel assignment. I think the descriptions RGB and B&W could get a workover. RGB is the standard format. B&W is the Bioware format. [[User:Eshme\|Eshme]] 06:09, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
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		+	=== Specular Maps ===
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		+	It appears to me that the specular map RGB channels are not 3 unrelated maps as implied by the 4 packed-maps descriptin, but instead simply control the color of the specular highlight. The alpha seems to control the intensity of the highlight. Can anyone else confirm or rebuke that based on their experience/experiments? [[User:Nezroy\|Nezroy]] 15:40, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

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	A 'black and white normal map' is actually a 'displacement map.' I think it's confusing that you call a b&w texture, that fakes geometry height, a 'normal map' and		A 'black and white normal map' is actually a 'displacement map.' I think it's confusing that you call a b&w texture, that fakes geometry height, a 'normal map' and
	a RGB texture, that fakes geometry height and position, a 'RGB normal map'. B&W = displacement. RGB = normal ''-Freebeers''		a RGB texture, that fakes geometry height and position, a 'RGB normal map'. B&W = displacement. RGB = normal ''-Freebeers''
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		+	*No its actually a normal map too. Its a normal map because it stores normals. That some are colorful, others are not is of no matter. Its just grey because of different channel assignment. I think the descriptions RGB and B&W could get a workover. RGB is the standard format. B&W is the Bioware format. [[User:Eshme\|Eshme]] 06:09, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

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 To be clear.
-A 'black and white normal map' is actually a 'displacement map.'
+A 'black and white normal map' is actually a 'displacement map.' I think it's confusing that you call a b&w texture, that fakes geometry height, a 'normal map' and
-I think it's confusing that you call a b&w texture, that fakes geometry height, a 'normal map' and
+a RGB texture, that fakes geometry height and position, a 'RGB normal map'. B&W = displacement. RGB = normal  ''-Freebeers''
 a RGB texture, that fakes geometry height and position, a 'RGB normal map'
 B&W = displacement
 RGB = normal
 -Freebeers