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Example Terrain Material?

by Scott Przybylski · in Torque 3D Beginner · 08/13/2013 (11:25 am) · 22 replies

Can anyone provide an example terrain material or good explanation that shows how to use the differen't texture maps?

Diffuse
Detail
Macro
Normal Parallax

From what I know so far.

Diffuse is just a regular texture thats stretched and blurred.
Detail is a grayscale higher resolution texture to show up close detail.
Macro is ???
Normal is a regular purplish normal map. How do I get "Parallax Scale" to work? I've read that Parallax goes in the alpha channel of normal map? What should it look like?


Thanks,
Scott
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    Torque 3D Owner Andy Wright
    BrokeAss Games
    #21
    10/05/2013 (4:40 am)
    the scale is very sensitive, usually i stick to 0.03 to 0.05 or so, or things start to get a bit wierd

    Robert Beran
    #22
    04/30/2017 (12:17 pm)
    Hello Friends,

    here a link to a way to use parallax https://www.beamng.com/threads/how-to-make-a-parallax-occlusion-mapping.9709/

    okay - and now i have the perfect settings in the terrain painter editor.

    diffuse map:
    file: path to your native texture
    size: 1

    detail map:
    file: path to your native texture
    strength: 0.1 (but not higher than 0.5)
    size: 1
    distance: 230

    normal map:
    file: the normalmap you created in the link above
    parallax scale: 0.05 (not too high)


    now you have a very cool parallax texture ;)


    greetings
    Robert
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