And now he's trying to bring back what makes q3 and ql impossible to play without picmip : the ugly us cybergoth medieval textures...

im not trying to bring back nothing, you can stick to QL/Q3. a pro can do a q3 texture pack for q4,

q4ctf1 heartless is a boring map fullstop. add some lava and redo the floors. and its still boring

http://c0re.vndv.com/q4ctf1.jpg

Try this if you can spend a few bucks: http://www.crazybump.com/

if you can't:
http://shadermap.com/

cheers. that nvidia tool, is all i have, and can never find the local other maps, paintshop pro is wack for tga`s

Also free: http://www.opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ub...ber=313057

i got shadermap. it works, and you can add it to the rightclick menu, on tga`s etc

from the example 1.bat

"pathtoexe" cdiff %1-disp (*,*,*,*) -norm (*,140,*,*) -spec (*,10,*,*) -v

Just a little reminder that obviously for copyright reasons, you cannot take the content from Q3 and give it to Q4 players...

i can do what i want, they`ve been modified, alot of q3 stuff on q4files to download, its why of life, you cant mix and match game title files

you can download the whole soundtrack on q4files

porting some textures is no different to porting a map, you just have to open it up, rescale it, retexture it, place all the items and spawnpoints

It is not, because at least in Europe you cannot have claim copyrights on a layout, as opposed to textures, shaders and what not.

And.. just because others did a mistake, doesn't make yours less wrong.


On a artistical POV i wouldn't go for that image.. because i guess it was originally a 256x256 sized texture and you just resized it to 512x512 which is always a bad idea.. with blurring and then sharpening the image to cover the quality loss you just lost alot of detail on the diffusemap. And it will not look any better ingame.

I just did a quick test with a slightly adjusted diffuse + local, spec maps.. and you still can see the blurryness of the diffusemap.

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Q3 TEXTURES IN Q4,

1>resize all q3 textures to 200% [256x256->512x512]
2>sharpen them up 4 or 5 times if your resize batch program cant do it along the way
3>open shadermap .bat file and set the -norm (*,140,*,*) to -norm (*,54,*,*)
4>use shadermap displacement image as the specular, and tone it down using brightness -196

TO MAKE THE MATERIAL,

remove .tga from filename on all material paths.
textures/q3textures/FOLDER/IMAGE
{
qer_EditorImage textures/q3textures/FOLDER/IMAGE

bumpMap textures/q3textures/FOLDER/IMAGE_NORM
diffuseMap textures/q3textures/FOLDER/IMAGE
specularMap textures/q3textures/FOLDER/IMAGE_SPEC

//add any image that has glow or blend in the filename below
//{
//blend add
//map textures/q3textures/FOLDER/IMAGE
//red parm0
//green parm1
//blue parm2
//}
}

http://c0re.vndv.com/Q3_TEX_01.jpg
http://c0re.vndv.com/Q3_TEX_02.jpg
http://c0re.vndv.com/Q3_TEX_03.jpg

you can't remake all q3 textures in q4, because no proper shader support -basically id software decided to remove shaders who would have been putting too much stress on the gpu (like metal shaders you see in the old tourney4 map), in order to cover up their revolutionary (=weaksolution at the time) stencil shadows

materials are shaders, just use the template for each texture image, and they will all work, its just the floors that are worth putting in the trash, if you use the template, when you`ve finished, you can mess around with material flags : teosided/materialType/etc

the linked jpg`s are resize conversion q3 textures, that took 8hrs to do them all

if you want a boring enviroment then just use :

guide PATH_TO_TGA ( "FOLDER_FILENAME_IN_EDITOR" )



if you want to save 10 mp FPS, then dont use a skybox, go old skool and use a blend blend scrolling texture for flat brush sky`s, if your map has big open areas

you can catch this in all its glory whenever you want, now http://q43a.org/ redirects to moddb
http://www.moddb.com/members/p0rt/tutorials/u...ures-in-q4

what #8 said with the addition that if you run a diffuse map through shadermap, crazybump and so on... it will look like shit and same goes for the specular

they look shit if you use shadermap specular image, instead of the diplacemete image as a specular image

id can suck my balls : http://www.mediafire.com/file/ktjm2mwodew/Q3TEXTURES.pk4 /map q3textures

main wall texture uses shadermap specular image and looks shit, others use shadermaps displacement image as specular