Bump Mapping Video Plugin?
- Thread starter Dogman5
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One thing I was wondering...
Now that there are texture dumping pluggins, when will there be texture input plugins? Being able to specify a bunch of high-res images to replace the low res n64 textures would be awesome. (I understand that for some games that access textures in odd ways this may not be possible, but even if it worked for 25% of games it would be worthwhile.
Now that there are texture dumping pluggins, when will there be texture input plugins? Being able to specify a bunch of high-res images to replace the low res n64 textures would be awesome. (I understand that for some games that access textures in odd ways this may not be possible, but even if it worked for 25% of games it would be worthwhile.
Tagrineth said:
I have tried these, but thats not what I mean. I mean to allow for a custom JPG or whatnot to be subsituted for the N64 texture. Kind of like how Tenenbra Quake replaces the low-res quake textures with high-res ones (and adds bump-mapping and etc to them as in the original message here).
Tagrineth said:
I don't know. It looks fairly nice to me, especially when compared with the original. (Try turning of the bumpmapping and other fancy effects in Tenebra and just using high-res textures, doesn't it look much better than the original?) Similar improvements made to a game like Mario 64 or Zelda could be impressive (assuming creative people took to designing texture packs).
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Tagrineth said:
Why? NikK got it working via pixel shaders in his PSX plugin, couldn't the same be done on the N64?
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1) Everyone would like to implement the most advanced rendering options which gets the maximal out of their video-cards but the most of the people which writes this doesn't know that N64 textures are rendered optimal with a voodoo3! The textures just aren't 4096x4096-optimized. Jabo made this mistake with the implentation of T&L in his plugin, but it didn't change anything (visible) excepting the speed:getlost: . Okay, the 2xsai is getting a little more out of the textures but it still isn't everything what you see in nowday-games. If it was easy to implement these options, Nintendo didn't need the gamecube, but only a small expansion for the N64.
Well, the problem is that bump mapping wouldn't look ANYTHING like those two pictures. Well, it would if you added a noise map to the bum mapping, but that is obviously not what we would want to do. I actually did a scene in 3d studio to give as example but it crashed for the first time in a month, so I didn't care to do it again. The real problem is, as Tagrineth mentioned, that the textures in the game is not meant for bump mapping. To create bumpmapping effects for the games (with plugin) you would use the same texture as a bump map, while normal bump maps are grey scale images which often is quite different from the original image. It could look good if only used very light (not much), but the problem is that it would be applied to all textures which probably wouldn't have the desired effect.