[Butthurter]

What about the cars scattered around in the Left 4 Dead series? Those are mainly cubemap shaders and they don't look awful in the slightest bit.

Cars just look dull and terrible without any reflection.

[Biscuit-Boy]

Butthurter posted:

Most racing games today have insanely reflective cars, yet no one nit picks those.

Because the reflection maps in games like Forza 4 actually look good. In Source the reflection maps are all distorted and awkward.

EDIT: Okay actually not too hot. I hate everything. http://cdn.gamerant.com/wp-content/u...reenshot-1.jpg

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Butthurter posted:

What about the cars scattered around in the Left 4 Dead series? Those are mainly cubemap shaders and they don't look awful in the slightest bit.

Cars just look dull and terrible without any reflection.

I don't own L4D or L4D2 so I couldn't comment. But I'm more interested in the geometry of the car and the gestalt of things than it being reflective. If I could make it work and be happy with it I'd love to use in game reflection but it just doesn't look right to me.

EDIT x 1000

Okay so Forza is hit and miss. http://puu.sh/ule3 These look pretty proper to me, but the Aventador ingame isn't the greatest.

[T F]

lonefirewarrior posted:

The reflectiveness in the Hunters is over exaggerated to give the armor a more alien feel. It's not the kind of reflectivity that anything would have save for maybe some types of bugs and pearlecent paint.

So? It still looks cool.

[Biscuit-Boy]

T F posted:

So? It still looks cool.

Not for what I'm working with. No one denied it was a neat effect, just not what I want.

[lonefirewarrior]

T F posted:

So? It still looks cool.

Not for anything trying to look real.

[Biscuit-Boy]

Here, I got the ENV and phong to look alright. Adding to op I guess. Mind the horrible smoke.

[Taggart]

as far as I am concerned I have yet to see Forza's cars look awful shaderwise



look at that sexy shit

now the shit people put on their cars is another thing but eh

[Biscuit-Boy]

Taggart posted:

as far as I am concerned I have yet to see Forza's cars not look awful shaderwise



look at that sexy shit

now the shit people put on their cars is another thing but eh

You probably missed it in my mess of a post but this looks pretty damn acceptable. http://puu.sh/ule3

You're right though, Forza can look pretty awful hahaha

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oh god hahaha you can see the ghost of the stig reflected on the hood

[Taggart]

whoa shit

I put "not look awful"

I meant "look awful" hahahahahaha oh man

[Biscuit-Boy]

Taggart posted:

whoa shit

I put "not look awful"

I meant "look awful" hahahahahaha oh man

OOOOH hahaha! Okay okay, total directional shift right there lol. Yeah, I was actually thinking it looked nice but the ghost stig made "not look awful" make sense haha.

[Taggart]

yeah I have my homespace set as the top gear studio just because the stig reflects off of all of my cars

[RyanH]

Biscuit-Boy posted:

Here, I got the ENV and phong to look alright. Adding to op I guess. Mind the horrible smoke.

That's fucking cool right there.

[wraithcat]

Biscuit-Boy posted:

I'm of the opinion that those don't really look good, they just aren't bad enough to ruin it. Dogs face is really pushing being noticeably weird, and the hunter image is a bit small.

If you ask me, this looks actually quite decent.

Biscuit-Boy posted:

Because the reflection maps in games like Forza 4 actually look good. In Source the reflection maps are all distorted and awkward.


EDIT: Okay actually not too hot. I hate everything. http://cdn.gamerant.com/wp-content/u...reenshot-1.jpg


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I don't own L4D or L4D2 so I couldn't comment. But I'm more interested in the geometry of the car and the gestalt of things than it being reflective. If I could make it work and be happy with it I'd love to use in game reflection but it just doesn't look right to me.


EDIT x 1000


Okay so Forza is hit and miss. http://puu.sh/ule3 These look pretty proper to me, but the Aventador ingame isn't the greatest.

That's in part because people don't cubemap their maps very well.

But yeah source is pretty old these days. And doesn't have reflections designed for mega beauty like a lot of racing games do. The biggest problem with source is that it's currently missing phong tint maps.

[Biscuit-Boy]

Whoa, that whatever-it-is looks pretty damn awesome, I'll agree. Of course I think you're right about the cubemaps and I'd assume that creature has better ones than the Aventador does. That's one reason I'm still hoping for HL3 because an overhaul of Source Engine would be awesome. Too bad garrysmod wasn't originally for cryengine, while I imagine there's an infinite amount of complications to go with it, Cryengine would be kickass for what we're doing.

[lonefirewarrior]

Garry's Mod on Cryengine would be just swell.

[Bubz]

why the fuck does this thread got so many replies

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oh its one of those threads where the op progresses with new shit or something

cool