New grid image

[Josh]

I started a new grid image for dev textures. This one uses alternating colored blocks instead of lines. The reason for this is that lines do not line up exactly against edges of CSG objects, since they are one pixel thick. The idea is for the larger grid to have more contrast, and for the contrast to get lighter and lighter as the grid gets smaller. This will allow you to easily line up edges of large objects quickly and small objects when needed. When finished, the smallest grid will cover the entire area, but I didn't finish it yet.

 

Feel free to play with this.

[reepblue]

I like the idea, worried on how you'll use colors tho. Also kind of reminds me of the texture I made a while back. It was mostly gray scale, and I had it's layers exported to test many shader effects.

 

[Josh]

Ah cool. Here are some colored versions you can try.

devgrid.zip

[reepblue]

Cool, I'll give them a go. you want the dev textures to have a normal and spec map, or you want it just to use the diffuse shader for simplicity reasons? I already have the normal/spec maps when I made the original texture.

 

Actually, nevermind, they look gross with the extra maps. Just using the diffuse is overall a better option.

[Josh]

You know, this is not super urgent, and it would make the maps look different from the tutorial videos. Maybe this is something I will use in Leadwerks 5. But feel free to experiment.

 

My gut says normal / spec would look cool but interfere with aligning geometry.

[reepblue]

I'll use these instead of the default ones from now on and get back to you on this. I think they look better than the Source-like dev textures, and more useful overall. When I first started using hammer, I actually used Portal's tile textures as a visual indicator of how big to make the rooms and such, and these textures kind of were made because of those times.

 

Yeah, the normal map made it look bad, it looks way better flat anyway.