DanielRavenNest

Just make a mesh avatar body attachment with the same UV mapping as the default avatar. Then you can use standard skins + the new texture maps.

I would have loved to have had this two years ago. Unfortunately it is now over a year since mesh attachments arrived broken, and it is an unknown amount of time until they properly deform. By the time normal + specular maps get incorporated, I'm afraid SL will be in terminal decline, if it isn't already to that point.

Isablan Neva

*Goes to amp up the timeline to complete those Blender tutorials*

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Frau Yardley

Great news, very exciting!

But does this mean I will have to replace this computer?

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Some rendering engines put a height map on the alphalayer of a normalmap, that way color = slope, alpha = height, and with height and slope, that gives you a parallax map on a single texture.

AshaSekayi Ra

Thankfully, Xnormal lets you change the direction of the color channels in a generated normal map to whatever you need to match your target program. So, no worries there.

Vaelissa Cortes

It's nice to see that Second Life is finally getting caught up to ancient times.

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Chip Midnight

Individual freelancer licenses of nDo2 are just $99. This may finally be my excuse to buy it.

Joshua Nightshade

I don't know if I could ever buy a piece of software that has a harmonica in its trailer.

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Tiffy Vella

Damn this is the sexiest thing I've seen for awhile.
Want want want. Now now now.

Dain Shan

/me rub eyes

It cant be .. its NOT chrismas time !!!

This is awsome .. WANT WANT WANT

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Amis

Is there any news about the possible limitations? It's a bit hard to believe that they will allow us to have 1024px normal and spec maps per face? Maybe more LI penalty ?

Thanks

Eata

Well currently they let you use up to 8 1024s per individual mesh. Normal and specular would surely cut directly into that.

I imagine they will add a penalty cost just for the performance implications.

Adeon Writer

It depends on how it's implemented. I assumed rather than two new texture drop areas on the build menu, you'd make a material asset, which itself contains normal, specular, and diffuse (aka regular) textures, and then you apply the material asset as the texture. That would mean you can easily share pre-made materials without putting them together.

But they might do it some other way.

Siggy

Who's betting the first product to use it will be a set of cock-n-balls?

NOW WITH NORMAL MAPPED VEINS AND 'ELBOW SKIN' (tm)!

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Maggiedoll Alter

*scratches head* That video doesn't seem to be loading for me.

Laverne Unit

Weird - does this work?

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Maggiedoll Alter

Nope. Am I missing a plugin, maybe? Not getting an alert or anything. Most video usually works, but I was having trouble on gyazo recently too. (which was minimal because I was trying to share, not watch, and the other person could see it!)

Qie Niangao

Hah, yeah, but no more primitive than the current generation of Mesh clothing, lacking both deformer and materials. They're gonna be noobie-freebie-ugly Real Soon Now.

AshaSekayi Ra

I came across this on Plurk today. Geenz talks a bit about the history of the materials project: Second Life Materials | Geenzian Science

Hitomi Tiponi

The most exciting thing about this is that LL have shown themselves willing to adopt a major user-led initiative. I think great credit must go to both Oz Linden and the Exodus team for getting this through the social and cultural minefield of such a change.

Adeon Writer

I wonder how long it will be before OpenSim has the amazing idea to add their own material system that they totally already had working years before any of this but will just use this to make things consistent since it's already released.

*cough*

Laverne Unit

Three suggestions:
- try the direct page at
- try another browser
- reinstall flash plugin on your current browser

I'm not an expert, but that's what I'd try. It does sound like your plugin isn't functioning correctly.

DRage

That's normal 'swizzle', it's not the same thing as normal sync.

Normal mapping algorithms are different in each program. So say you make your normal map in blender and bring it in to SL, but each program is using a different algorithms to render said normal map the end result is a normal map with shading errors. There are ways around this but your end up with a much less optimized model.

Adeon Writer

To be purely honest, I have to point out that this video is using parrallax-maps - which are Normal-maps with a height-map in its alpha channel. That makes them slightly more powerful, making their dips and groves change with your perspective as if they really are popping out. Regular normalmaps don't quite do that.


In any case all of the above is only using two polygons...