Add custom textures on Hammer Hi guys, sorry for my English, I'm French. I want just to know how I can add custom texture on Hammer, because when I put the textures in 'materials', Hammer make a checked purple and black texture. If a texture is side-by-side with another texture, and the player cannot see it, does it need to be textured with nodraw, or because zero light will hit the texture, does it even matter? I noticed Valve never really bothered using nodraw on textures that are 'inside' brushwork in some Half-Life 2 maps. --Mattshu 17:00, 27 February 2011 (UTC).
INTRODUCTION Designing first-class items for Dota 2 requires more than just ability and a great idea. The aesthetics of Dota 2 are built from a set of principles that help keep each hero immediately and uniquely identifiable from above during gameplay. We’re going to go over exactly what these principles are, how we used them to design the heroes and how you can apply them to custom items. Be aware that the principles on this page are important general design concepts that apply to the readability and quality execution of all items, including inventive items that thoughtfully differ from the default colors and silhouettes. New insights have been added to this updated guide so please have another look even if you've read previous versions. SILHOUETTE. A hero’s silhouette must be clearly identifiable at first glance.
The silhouette should show a character’s orientation. Custom items are welcome to differ from the default silhouette of the hero as long as the character is still identifiable and the mesh is compatible with Valve's default hero skeleton and animations. To support the readability and of the hero, drastically different silhouettes for some items could be balanced by more familiar colors or silhouettes for other items. The Dota heroes were designed with pose in mind. Even with custom items, the hero's pose should reinforce the character’s strength, demeanor, and speed.
Weapons need a unique read but should work to complement the character’s design. with simple shapes can help balance complicated shapes in other areas.
VALUE GRADIENT - BEGINNING THE HIERARCHY. “Value” is the range of lightness and darkness within a subject regardless of color and saturation. One can argue that value is more important than color to the design and the success of a character because not only is it used to create focal points, it creates the illusion of depth, and also helps give three-dimensionality to the object. Dota 2's default hero gradients generally move from darkest at feet/lower body to lightest at the upper body and head. This helps draw the player’s eye to the most important areas of the character. Items that don't follow the 'darker below, lighter above' style of gradient may still work if they follow other principles on this page to ensure clear readability.
If an item has large areas of the same color, gradient can bring variety and focus to avoid monotony. VALUE PATTERNING - CREATING VISUAL INTEREST. The human eye instinctively looks for boundaries between areas of contrast, so it makes sense to establish contrasting blocks of value to highlight the various forms in our characters. Following the value gradient described above, we created more visual interest in Dota 2's heroes by increasing the value contrast between objects in the upper torso and keeping the lower torso objects with less contrast. Separating each unique piece on the character into its own value will also help it read as a distinct element. In characters that have no distinct item breaks (as seen in the wolf example) gradients are used in order to establish patterns.
Before adding color, test your value patterns in-game. Be sure the character’s features are recognizable and that the most important features draw the eye. You can view values of heroes and their items in the workshop item tool by using the Hero Display Mode button to cycle through different render options or by using the console convar rherodebugrendermode 5 . Absolute white and black should not be used in our game, since those colors don’t react well to lighting, becoming flattened or overblown and losing detail. Note how dark and light areas on the heroes below are handled to preserve detail and form COLOR AND SATURATION - LESS IS MORE. Start by selecting a primary color for your item set. Then select a secondary and tertiary color by using complementary, split complementary, analogous, or triadic color schemes (see Color Schemes below for more information).
Keep color harmony while painting textures by only introducing new colors using blends of the original primary, secondary, and tertiary colors along with grayscale values. Custom items are welcome to differ from the default color scheme of the hero but you may need to find other ways to support the identification and of the hero. An extreme color change for some items could be balanced by more familiar colors or silhouettes for other items.
Avoid using colors which are dominant in the Dota map. Saturation (or intensity of the color) also draws the eye, so saturation levels should be less towards the lower body and increase towards the upper body.
Stay away from all pure saturation colors, meaning that you should try not to use colors that max out the R, G, or B values in your color textures. This allows more head-room for the in-game lighting to correctly influence them. Choose very small areas for the highest saturation in order to re-enforce visual interest. Large areas of high saturation overwhelm the viewer and distract from the visual harmony of the character. Complicated texture details, high-contrast values or strong saturation can be balanced by with fewer details, less value contrast and reduced saturation. Don’t lose focus!
Turn your character to greyscale as described above in Value Patterning and recheck the values during and after the coloring process. COLOR SCHEMES Color schemes can be inventive but still harmonious if they are created using structured combinations of hues from the color wheel.
Complementary Color Schemes Complimentary hues are on opposite sides of the color wheel. These opposing colors are more intense and 'vibrate' when placed next to each other as they compete for your attention. Split Complementary Color Schemes One of the complementary colors is split off into a pair of neighboring hues. Analogous Color Schemes Analogous colors are next to one another on the color wheel.
These colors appear to 'push' at each other, creating an optical illusion where each zone appears larger when it has your attention. Triad Color Schemes Triad hues are equidistant on the color wheel COLOR MIXING Once you've picked your source colors, mix, tint, and shade them in order to derive your full palette. This example shows muted colors created by mixing complementary colors.
The pure, saturated opposing colors become a desaturated grey tone as they are mixed together. This example shows using black shade and white tint to adjust color values CHARACTER COLOR KEY PALETTES . In the examples below, the palettes on the top are the starting palettes.
The palettes on the bottom are modified using only colors blended from the starting palettes. Doom and Lion are examples of Analogous palettes Kunkka and Lycan are examples of Split Complementary palettes Beastmaster is an example of a Complementary palette. AREAS OF REST AND DETAIL. Large areas of visual complexity can overwhelm the eye and become monotonous. Balance areas of detail by adding larger areas of less detail where the eye can rest. By creating these larger less detailed zones, areas of detail will have a much greater visual impact.
Detailed areas should comprise a small percentage of the overall character, and be concentrated in areas of importance. The scale of detail is relative to the size of the character in-game.
Details that are too small simply become noise. Larger areas with less or no detail read much clearer from game perspective than highly detailed areas. You can add non-distracting detail on larger areas by keeping the values of the detail close to its background. The visible anatomy on Phantom Lancer, the stripes in the blue areas of Sven’s armor, the stitched patches on Sniper’s cape, and the True Form bear’s brown fur are good examples of this. EVALUATING CONTENT IN CONTEXT.
One of the most important ways to verify your work is to see it in context, which means placing the hero in different parts of the Radiant and Dire sides of the map during day and night. Be especially mindful of how lighter colors look in the more brightly lit Radiant side of the map during daytime. You can use the Toggle Day/Night button in the workshop tool or type dotadaynightcycletoggle in the game console to toggle day and night. Be sure to test shapes, value, and color during each stage of the creation process. The workshop submission tool will allow you to preview over budget items in game so you can evaulate early versions of textures and meshes while it's easier to make adjustments. The in-game experience is how the character and items are ultimately going to be seen by the players, so check the model and textures often in the workshop previewing tool. DIRECTIONALITY.
It is crucially important for players to instantly identify not only who a character is but which way they are facing so that movements during gameplay can be anticipated. Values, colors, details, and silhouettes help to define each hero's head, their weapon and the direction they are facing. APPLICATION OF CONCEPTS. Adjusting a hero’s texture is a fast and easy way of resolving common readability issues. Below are examples of how Valve artists adjusted textures to improve readability during the development of Witch Doctor, Lion, and Beastmaster. Original versions are on the left, the revised versions with improved readability are on the right.
Body Wave (Deep, Loose) vs. Curly (Deep, Kinky) vs. Yaki and Funmi As you may know, the are one of the main elements when you think about your hair extensions, but hair texture is also extremely important because it can drastically change your hairstyle. From straight to curly – hair texture has a really important part in your look. When talking about curly hair, a lot of people are not aware that there are many different types of curly hair with very subtle but important differences. So, if you’re looking to get a perm, you can choose from these different hair textures and get the perfect one.
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Hopefully, that makes sense. Again, proper maintenance is paramount.
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If you get extensions, the texture is already pre-applied so you don’t have to add chemicals or heat treatment to your own hair. And when all is said and done, your hair will look healthier, fuller, richer, and you will be able to style it more easily. Kinky Curly Hair Kinky curly hair is a type of curly hair that also has a torsion twist and the hair basically turns around itself, and has a zig-zag pattern.
Despite looking very strong, kinky curly hair is actually pretty fragile and often dry and requires a lot of maintenance and special care. Therefore, it is important to apply hair moisturizer and wash extensions with a sulphate free shampoo that does not damage the hair.
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