[WIP] Ground texture mod

look at the shadows, its not midday, nice pic, but i cant take much from it.

[philip.ed]

Not midday, but IMHO these are roughly the colours I'd personally love to see

http://www.picturescolourlibrary.co....&query=1871414

sorry, the picture is rather blurred.

and this one looks nice too, although again it's not middday.

[Liz Lemon]

The easiest solution to all these complaints of the color not being to saturated, or to green, or what have you would be to add a user adjustable color grading shader to the game.

Looking at what can be found through the sfs extractor, this should be possible, and there are plenty of parametric color grading shader that can be used or adapted to the game.

If the developers added it, they could even make it user adjustable. If someone wants to fly in spielbergian faded colors, they can. If someone wants the landscape to scream color, they can.


As for the creator of this texture mod, it'd be wise for you to look over the shaders as well as their associated config file. You may find that you can get that horizon look you're after without altering the textures.

Originally Posted by Liz Lemon

As for the creator of this texture mod, it'd be wise for you to look over the shaders as well as their associated config file. You may find that you can get that horizon look you're after without altering the textures.

will wait for the SDK.

@ phillip very nice pics, id like to see that too eventually.

[InsaneDruid]

Nice work.

Dunno if you know about it.. but AMD has a nice little tool for compressing textures into .dds format, with mipmap building, mass (batch) compression etc etc.

Personally, i use it all the time (like for the power&glory GTR2 mod). Saves a lot of time.

http://developer.amd.com/gpu/compres...s/default.aspx

Originally Posted by InsaneDruid

Nice work.

Dunno if you know about it.. but AMD has a nice little tool for compressing textures into .dds format, with mipmap building, mass (batch) compression etc etc.

Personally, i use it all the time (like for the power&glory GTR2 mod). Saves a lot of time.

http://developer.amd.com/gpu/compres...s/default.aspx

cheers will have a look at that tommorow. interested in the dx10 implementation and if there are any difference to the good old photoshop plugins. and maybe i can fix the trees file issue as im sure luthier mentioned initially it was a mip map problemo.

back in the day mei was an rfactor designer for IDT champcar and others etc etc. and later GMT (mostly private work).. never tried mdding the gtr range though. roll on rfactor2.

power& glory mod looks brilliant id love to try it tbh. reminds me of the historics rF mod. not a gtr owner here though.

this is what im waiting to put into rfactor 2. yes its the AI driving and a very old video simply testing TIR.
http://youtu.be/4TmKiJPUeNM

[jojimbo]

the new textures are fantastic, i find il2 cod's default textures a bit "garish" but i must say, the ground with ecverything on full is an absolutely amazing sight to behold.

[philip.ed]

Ali, how is the terrain coming along? I was looking back over pictures of the CoD terrain, and I noticed that there seem to be a lot of fields which are either really dark or almost pastel in colour. It seems to be that, from photos I've seen (indeed, from mostly all the photos posted in the thread) that such variations are 'rare', as in that they don't appear as often as in CoD.
Is it possible to edit the actual textures in this way, to really alter to way the terrain looks?

[Mad G]

Yes, dark green trees, specially a darker tone for the lime color that looks tropical. Looking forward for your mod.

[SQB]

In my opinion, the ground colour should not be desaturated, nor turned "brown-er" but rather just shifted to a slightly darker, fresher, green in comparison to the weirdly toxic one we have now.
In fact conio's pics basically sum up what I am looking for, except take out the rape.