Terrain Quad Problems

Troubleshooting terramonkey
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Hello JME community, how are you all? ^.^



I am having a couple of problems with the terrain lighting material & wondered if there was anyone who could shed some light on my issue. When I apply a normal map to my ‘cobble’ texture, The path turns dark but the other textures appear normal. If I comment out the normal map line then all the textures are dark. I am using one ambient & one directional light.



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http://i.imgur.com/1nWpN.png



left: no textures have normal maps

right: path texture has a normal map



Thanks.

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When one texture has a normalmap all other textures also need normal maps.

This is my experience…

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…and you can create a normal map from a color map with the SDK’s image editor (right-click the image to open it with the editor)

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Thanks, did not know that you could make normal maps from the SDK aswell, where is the uh, the function to do this, I cannot find it?



EDIT: found it, but when I save the image is not in the directory I saved it to



EDIT #2: this is just common sense, i’ll try not to be an idiot before I post next time, thanks :stuck_out_tongue:

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Open image in SDK by right-clicking, top-left of the image window click on Filters → Bump Map → choose appropriate option.



This will open the image in a different window. Right-click on that image’s tab, click on Save Document…

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Bah. All that typing just for nothing. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Ok, i applied a normal map to all textures but everything is still dark, it just isnt illuminated by the directional light. What is this, i don’t even?

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Your base texture needs a normal map if some textures on top of it have one. I’m not entirely sure why it has this darkening effect (as it does get a default upwards normal), maybe one of the shader experts can shed some light on it (ha ha).

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@Sploreg said:
Your base texture needs a normal map if some textures on top of it have one. I'm not entirely sure why it has this darkening effect (as it does get a default upwards normal), maybe one of the shader experts can shed some light on it (ha ha).


Thanks, but the only other textures I have are the height & splat maps...? What do you mean by the base textures?
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sorry, I mean the first texture layer needs a normal map and it should look better then.

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Yes, my three textures have normal maps. It appears that only places where the terrain is completely flat the directional light is not shown. If I knew GLSL I would just mess with the shader but seriously I am dependent on you guys :stuck_out_tongue: