TES Skyrim

[Dinkledorf]

Looking good all!

Good to see you posting again saltr.

Good to see a lot of new faces as well.

More experimentation on my end but I am liking the results so far.

[Yersinia79]

Yersinia, if the first shot is daytime I would suggest toning down the red via RGB somehow. It's likely bloom as you can see the top half of the watchtower is affected by a pink/purple tint but the bottom half isn't.

The night shot looks nice. Would be nice to see it a little more zoomed out.

Other than that I think it's looking nice so far.

Unreal Warfare
Thank you, all input is very welcome. ^^ Will try lower red a bit in the far and near fog, should help I hope.
Going to redo night day balance in imagespace, so night get alittle more brightness and day alittle less.
I think day and night settings will be more normal then, at the moment day settings is alittle low.
Night are "low" too but I think it will help alot on the night sky that I have to tune anyhow. ^^
Probly wont be Epic like JawZ ELE and nowhere near so advanced, but I think it is fun at the moment. See how it goes if I manage to finish this one weather

[saltr]

Dinkledorf, thanks, looking good

Couple experimenting and one with a preset









http://www.mediafire.com/download/2mgb2 ... tr_CoT.rar

[brutalscream]

@tigreton

how do you get that sharp body textures like on these pics?
btw, your screens are that good, its unbelievable!!

[--JawZ--]

brutalscream;

High value for a sharpening method, most likely LumSharpen found in SweetFX.

That along with a low SpecularPowerMultiplier and high SpecularAmountMultiplier. And perhaps [REFLECTION] is activated.
A lower value than 1.0 for the SpecularPowerMultiplier will spread out the reflections and a higher value than 1.0 for SpecularAmountMultiplier will increase the intensity of the reflections.

But the most important thing is having a high detailed specular map/"texture"_s.dds to create the same effect that are in those pictures.


I myself don't like such textures that create that much speckles/dots at a high Specular amount settings, it should be more smudged if you ask me.

[CruNcher]

paler skin tone

I myself don't like such textures that create that much speckles/dots at a high Specular amount settings, it should be more smudged if you ask me.

Same here though it's not easy getting Skin look Organic in a Phong Model if not even impossible, though before that the problem of unified colors is also heavy like seen here with the Real Girls Skin i'ts not uniform enough and creates a lot of color distortions, though mostly in places where no light can hit it

Though i wonder where these compression artifacts come from here (blurry spots) must be happened in the hand editing i guess, or a normalmap compression artifact.










i have the feeling im slowly ready to clone Real Life Females with my approach

[WoodsOfYpres]

saltr
That looks interesting! I'll give this one a try later.

All
Great shots. This thread is a good inspiration!
Have been playing around with SSAO and the way it changes the look of characters in the game. It is so much fun to try how the variables affect the look of different things ingame

SSAO off


SSAO on


Maybe the SSAO i use is a little bit too much :mrgreen: . What do you guys think?

[ZeroKing]

@WoodsOfYpres

Just decrease AOIntensity (in increments of 0.05) or AOAmount (in increments of 0.05) and you're good

A suggestion: look into balancing SamplingRange, AOAmount, and AOIntensity to get the best bang for your buck, as people say

[WoodsOfYpres]

@ZeroKing

Thank you, will try this. Haven't changed the SamplingRange yet, since i didn't really get what it does. The problem is always to balance it out, so it will look good on characters and environment.

[CruNcher]

Are you scared by her appearance ?

i guess you'll be scared more by the mouth and teeth interaction ?

this is damn hard but the fact that you can iterate in realtime on the fly makes it easy as well