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Plants Texture / Model Pack
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While making the map Pyramid of the Magician I
spent a couple of weeks driving around to various locations taking close up pictures of plants
and I certainly got my fair share of dodgy looks! On several occasions I had to go back
because of lighting conditions and the fact I was wearing a dark coloured T-shirt!
A lot of the leaves were taken extremely close up and often the colour of my T-shirt would wash
out or tint the digital images.
All of the leaves required an alpha layer and a classic method for doing this is to use a solid colour
cloth behind the object so that the background can be cut away easily. Something I forget about most
organic objects is that they are slightly translucent and will be affected by the colour of the
screen behind them.
The best advice I can give anyone wanted to take digital pictures of plants is, wear a neutral coloured
top or t-shirt (grey or white) and use a white cloth as a screen behind the object. Otherwise you will end
with a lot of tinted images and strange coloured plant leaves.
This pack file contains an example gallery map/bsp file, a q3 shader file, various plant textures
and a small collection of models used in the images below. If you want further examples of how
these textures / models can be used, I recommend you check
Pyramid of the Magician
or look at the following source files.
The images below show various plant leaves mapped onto a simple model and using vertex light. The
plant leaves are set up with seperate Q3 material shaders for each side of the leaf. This allows
the underside to have a different vertex light value to the top and not have to use constant lighting.
This means that the lighting can be tweaked per location with different shaders and the underside
can receive colour bounce light from nearby ground surfaces.
Leaf - 01a
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Leaf - 01d
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Leaf - 02a
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Leaf - 02b
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Leaf - 02c
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Leaf - 02d
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Leaf - 03a
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Leaf - 03c
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Leaf - 04a
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Leaf - 04b
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Leaf - 04c
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Leaf - 04d
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Leaf - 05a
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Mushroom - 01
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Grass - 01a
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Grass - 01d
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Tree - 01a
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Tree - 01a
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