Emissive textures question
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Thats the thing it had no emissive settings at all it was just a plain photoshop texture. with RGB values only.
Not tried that yet will let you know the results, Cheers.
You may be confused about what the emissive texture is. I believe it should be a greyscale mask which tells exactly how emissive every part of the object is, where black = not emissive, white = max emissive, and all values of gray are in between. EDIT: Looks like I could be wrong, and that colour in the emissive texture is relevant (not sure), but either way the brightness/luma should define how bright it emits.
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Here's an example of how emmisive textures work in the TMTK:
For this till, here is the main texture or 'Base Colour' file:
Then here is the emmisive texture:
originally, I just had the emissive as large block textures where the screens are, but it totally washes out the design... so a greyscale approach seems to work much better
For this till, here is the main texture or 'Base Colour' file:
Then here is the emmisive texture:
originally, I just had the emissive as large block textures where the screens are, but it totally washes out the design... so a greyscale approach seems to work much better
Cheers for the replies.
The grayscale system seems to be how they interperate em values, it would have been nice if they would put these basic requirements in there flow diagrams. rather than a half baked diagram that shows about 40% of the needed requirments for files, textures and LOD placements.
Thanks to the community for the help.
Here's an example of how emmisive textures work in the TMTK:
View attachment 2435
For this till, here is the main texture or 'Base Colour' file:
View attachment 2436
Then here is the emmisive texture:
View attachment 2437
originally, I just had the emissive as large block textures where the screens are, but it totally washes out the design... so a greyscale approach seems to work much better
The grayscale system seems to be how they interperate em values, it would have been nice if they would put these basic requirements in there flow diagrams. rather than a half baked diagram that shows about 40% of the needed requirments for files, textures and LOD placements.
Thanks to the community for the help.
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Moving to tutorials and help
I was playing with emissives, and it looks like RGB values are the way to go. Here's a comparison between a greyscale _EM version of my sign and a version with the same RGB values as my _BC file.
Ok Cortinian shows how em textures work and SarrahW shows another example that works as well, wouldn't it be nice if frontier had the decency to give us an explanation on how these things are supposed to work? Again thanks to the hard work from the community, and to the sheer hard work and the time and effort of there endeavors to provide us with Needed information on the Thememakers Workshop.
Speaking from working with EM to make neon lights, it's true white is full bright ;-)