{"id":3797,"date":"2016-09-25T23:58:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T22:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2016-09-26T00:12:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T23:12:38","slug":"p-172-unity-space-environment-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p-172-unity-space-environment-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"P-172: Unity: Space Environment: Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have finally finished the main “wall” texture of the structure that I was working on. I have created a normal map, and I have modified the “Metallic” and “Smoothness” values in Unity, and I am very pleased with the results.<\/p>\n

I am using “xNormal<\/a>” as my normal map creation program, and it seems to work well, even if it does require a little preprocessing to produce a height map from my texture, before I can create the normal map (It seems to be mainly designed to produce normal maps from high poly geometry). xNormal is free, my previous tool, CrazyBump<\/a>, costs $99, and I don’t create a lot of normal maps, so I thought the free option would be better.<\/p>\n

I think the normal maps and metallic\/smoothness values have made a massive difference. They really do their jobs well, and add a huge amount of detail to what would otherwise be quite a boring, flat texture.<\/p>\n

Going from the images below, I really think that the surface “feels” metallic. Even when the camera is very close to it, the detail is still good enough. The fact that I am using high-resolution textures makes a difference as well, of course, the overall effect is a combination of all of the new techniques that I have been using. In fact, the wall texture has a 4096×4096 texture all to itself.<\/p>\n

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I have finally finished the main “wall” texture of the structure that I was working on. I have created a normal map, and I have modified the “Metallic” and “Smoothness” values in Unity, and I am very pleased with the results. I am using “xNormal” as my normal map creation program, and it seems to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-designs","category-p-0","category-software-and-games","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3827,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/3827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}