Custom Textures (Layers) too strong

[Lionhardt]

I began experimenting with custom made layer textures, as the editor is missing a layer texture with a saturated brown tone that is not a rocky texture. The result was not quite pleasing though. My custom texture is way too strong and shines through all the other layers on top of it. Does anybody know what I might need to do to fix this?

Here are two screenshots comparing a default texture and mine plus the texture I made.

Also, I used paint.NET zu edit my texture. Is this godd tool for textures at all? I ask becuase for heightmap editing you need a program that supports 16 bit color coding, else you will get bad heightmaps.

I had to rar the DDS, as that extension is not allowed to upload in the attachments.

[Plasma_Wolf]

How can you even open a .dds file? I don't have paint.net and I'd like to keep it that way if possible.

[Lionhardt]

How can I open it? With pain.NET... or with a plugin for PS or GIMP.

[Krapougnak]

I don't know the answer to your question but your map with the existing vanilla textures just looks superb, I'm really impatient to play it.

[ColonelSheppard]

pain.net and gimp are the best free solutions (since version 3.something gimp needs no plugins for dds i belive i saw it in the changelog once)

[Deep_]

Hello again.

I began experimenting with custom made layer textures, as the editor is missing a layer texture with a saturated brown tone that is not a rocky texture. The result was not quite pleasing though. My custom texture is way too strong and shines through all the other layers on top of it. Does anybody know what I might need to do to fix this?

What Strata Layer is this? Because if this is the 'lower stratum' it could explain the blending.

Also, I used paint.NET tu edit my texture. Is this godod tool for textures at all? I ask because for heightmap editing you need a program that supports 16 bit color coding, else you will get bad heightmaps.

Paint.NET and Gimp are both useful tools but if you want to creat really high level Textures you should work with 16 bit images. That's actually the reason why the gaming industry uses pretty much exclusively dds files. It doesn't only saves so much space, it's also is the best way to convert a 16 bit to a 8 bit image without loosing much quallity. So working in 16 bit when it comes to textures is todays standard.
I took a look at your texture and it's way too dark.
A big percentage of it is at 0,0,0 or close to it. The engine can not lit those parts up. 0 stays 0. In general you want your textures to have a middle ranged brightness so the engine can dynamically darken or lighten it up.

[Lionhardt]

Thank you, very informative! And yes, it is lower stratum.

[nine2]

Did you ever get custom textures working? Did you manage to make your own normals?

[nine2]

Ahhah sweet, I got it working, using Nvidias conversion plugin for photoshop.