Llama#s Weird and Wonderful Creatures

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Sounds good! Nice to hear that the exam pressure is off for you! =)

[sHAdowgAme]

The diffuse map is the color map, and the specular map is sort of the opposite of the normal map. It controls how shiny an object is, and what color the light will reflect.

[llamaranger]

as far as i know specularity is controlled by the alpha channel of the normal map in oblivion..

[Ibsen's Ghost]

That's probably part of why my Royal Guard didn't turn out so well. Photoshop warned me that I would lose the alpha channel. I don't really know much about diffuse and specular maps though....

[llamaranger]

also nick_op

what do you know about blend settings in an animation? Apparently their needed to get forward animations to work properly? if not, do you know how to get forward movement to work properly?

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edd

[sHAdowgAme]

Originally posted by llamaranger
as far as I know specularity is controlled by the alpha channel of the normal map in oblivion..

You are right. I didn't know that. I wonder if there is a workaround to create a color specular map.

[nick_op]

Originally posted by llamaranger
also nick_op

what do you know about blend settings in an animation? Apparently their needed to get forward animations to work properly? if not, do you know how to get forward movement to work properly?

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edd

I've got to rush to work now, but I'll try to reply later. Shoot me a PM if I forget.

[llamaranger]

dont worry about it, i worked it out

I'd forgotten to move the Bip01 forward with the rest of the skeleton, and 'cause I'd imported another anim to look at it was exporting both sets causing wierd stuff to happen

its all sorted now though

though any info you have about how to use the blend settings would still be appreciated

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edd

[nick_op]

Originally posted by llamaranger
though any info you have about how to use the blend settings would still be appreciated

I'm assuming you're talking about the blend keys in the NiTextKeyExtraData? No one really knows how they work exactly. Koniption and myself tred to figure it out a while back, but we managed to shoot each others' theories down and never came up with anything concrete.

I also had a conversation with SaidenStorm about it, he basically said that he thought it influenced the priority values of the bones, but that only Bethesda truly know how it works.

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Originally posted by nick_op
.....only Bethesda truly know how it works....

Tricky buggers! X(