I took the textures from Halo Combat Evolved and imported them into blender and enable r(ule)tracing (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by abbotsbury@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 5 months ago

Ruletracing differs from raytracing in that instead of casting rays, it uses rulers.

[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

the deepbump addon has a button to convert normal maps to depth maps, would help with the parallax

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

oh nice, yeah the original textures are just bump maps, I plugged them into the normal map node and it looked good enough so I just went with it, but I've heard about how bump maps =/= normal maps and it can cause problems, so that might be a nice addon for this kind of stuff

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

It kinda hurts to look at, and is kinda beautifully ominous at the same time

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Yeah Halo CE comes from the wonderful era where bump mapping was new and a free way to add detail without adding polys, has a beautiful technical aesthetic, kinda like Half-Life 2