Project Parallax - Roads and Bridges : V

» Thu Jun 21, 2012 2:28 pm

Adds parallax mapping to the road and bridge textures in Skyrim, making their flat 2D texture images look full 3D!

Mod here - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/18814

Video Demonstration Here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-PPQZnqT8s

» Thu Jun 21, 2012 1:45 am

I tried the Whiterun parallax and found the effect was a bit too pronounced for my tastes, with the (slight) smearing at the raised edges of flagstones being quite jarring to my eyes. Is there a straightforward way of just reducing the depth of the parallax effect a bit so it enhances the normal maps without shouting out so much?

I'm assuming there might be a way of flattening the parallax maps in a texture editing package, but is it possible to do it as a batch process?

» Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:45 pm

Awesome series, I can not wait until you are all finished up

» Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:30 am

@andyw
You can reduce the intensity of the effect by reducing the contrast of the parallax map in something such as Photoshop, but you will also need a .dds format plugin to save the file.

» Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:07 am

I only asked about this a couple of days ago, this is awesome

Thank you!

» Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:19 pm

@andyw
You can reduce the intensity of the effect by reducing the contrast of the parallax map in something such as Photoshop, but you will also need a .dds format plugin to save the file.

I shall start trying to learn how to use GIMP's batch scripting

. Thanks for the advice.

» Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:55 am

You might want to make a master "Project Parallax" thread so all the collections can be found in one place

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