hey, so i did all the steps, but in the end it was too much shiny, i put all the mateirials correclty. how i can manage the color level? btw tahnks for the video!!!!

i have just found out how great this method is sure it takes a while but like its PBR! not proper true pbr but yknow it practically is!

wow thats uh kinda amazing lmao

What if i dont have roughness, metalness, or diffuse? the texture files i have rn are spec, normal, gloss, emissive, cavity, ambient occlusion, and albedo

@deadwater2ndchannel

Ай бұрын

gloss can be converted to roughness, and albedo is a term usually used interchangeably with diffuse. specular i don't have a whole lot of experience with yet, and emissive can be used as-is with the $emissiveblend VMT parameter. the written guide on wayback machine that i provided a link to in the description has info on what to do with specular, cavity, and gloss if i'm remembering correctly.

I have a question. How to make the eye fading ? I mean for example eyes are normally blue, but i want them to glow for a few seconds and turn normal again in loop. As i researched we need to edit .vmt file but couldn't find what should i add to that file.

@deadwater2ndchannel

4 ай бұрын

I don't think you can animate glow in the source engine, and if your model uses the 'EyeRefract' or 'Eyes' shader for their eyes you wont be able to have any glow at all. You could make an animated texture that fakes the glow effect by just changing the saturation and brightness of the image over time but it won't actually glow in the dark, and it will only work if you're not using one of aforementioned shaders. I haven't done an animated texture in so long I can't remember off the top of my head how to do it but there should be plenty of info on the valve developer wiki and youtube.

@brnc.

4 ай бұрын

@@deadwater2ndchannel Thank you for your help!

Couldn't you technically achieve the same thing with a phong exponent texture and $phongAlbedoTint instead of inflating the model's polycount to achieve a similar look?

@deadwater2ndchannel

11 ай бұрын

The third PBR conversion method I briefly mentioned in part 5 (FastValveMaterial) does that I'm pretty sure. It looks great on most models, but on models that are almost completely metallic (like the shoulderpad) it can look pretty bad iirc. The guy who designed the model stacking method seems to REALLY know his way around the source engine though, so I'm just going off the assumption that if there were an easier, less expensive method to achieve the same effect, he would have said so. I might do a video on FastValveMaterial at some point, if I do I'll try re-doing the shoulderpad with it so we can get a side-by-side with the stacking method.

man this is difficult

I thought I did the whole process perfectly but my model turned out to be very chrome looking

@flubbawubba6603

Ай бұрын

I messed up naming the vmt smh lol

also how did you compile the auto pbr thingy?

@deadwater2ndchannel

11 ай бұрын

it involved linux and a lot of command line stuff that I probably couldn't fit into a comment lol

@hl1xaweaponanimator26

11 ай бұрын

@@deadwater2ndchannel eh well i guess ill settle for the pbr thing on gamebanana its good enough