First attempt at Quake 4 texturing, what's wrong here?

[ALMighty]

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As you can see, the texture looks a bit like a badly compressed jpg. Is this a common problem? Would you say it's a problem with the normal map or the specular map? Because the diffuse map doesn't look like that.

I first painted the diffuse map, and used Nvidia's normal map filter in photoshop. For the specular map I just used the same as the diffuse map except I grayscaled it. Maybe this is a bad idea? I've never done this before.

[o'dium]

Looks like your spec map is way to bright, also your diffuse lacks any colour at all by the looks of things. Cant tell without looking at the texture?

[Kat]

try adding a light touch of 'noise' to the template you used to make the normal map

[urgrund777]

does D3 engine compress normalmaps to DXT1 ? That 'ugliness' looks like the telltale result from .DDS 'swizzling' in the textures. I think lower settings will compress th textures. What quality setting are you running it on?

[ALMighty]

Thanks for the tip, Kat! I think I overdid it though. :P

does D3 engine compress normalmaps to DXT1 ? That 'ugliness' looks like the telltale result from .DDS 'swizzling' in the textures. I think lower settings will compress th textures. What quality setting are you running it on?

That's it! Much better.

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