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Hello everyone

ok where do i start..well yous have seen some of my work but i never really understanded the N and S tiles..
and i am going to say i really am a Noob when i comes to working on photoshop doing these tiles,
when people say do this do that, then i am knacked to be honest..i find it very hard to understand it..
I can not do the S tile file to take out the shine !
and also find it hard for N tile..

So what i am asking can someone PLEASE do a step by step pic guide on the above tiles s/n how to remove shine
also i see saying about adding alphas..plus it needs to be in english
i think i have lost alot from my memory, because even the simple things as gone..so much worry going on in the real life world due to family illness..

i made this once over, but i have now been told its wrong, if someone can make it this way step by step
showing the right way to remove shine and working with the settings for N and S, i have seen a red color on youtube
but can not see how to do it.
http://tm.mania-exchange.com/threads/24 ... le?page=-1

sadly i can not pay yous any money, but can offer planets !
ps
once over i joined here way back in 2011. and after the creative closed i forgot about this site after my hard drive crashed
and found alot of my friends left TM and never came back, so my helpers i lost forever..my last mod was to be the very last one, and for me to stop making them forever "loire valley" but i have many ideas in my head, things i would love to try but i can not do it, well finish them due to the lack of understanding the S file and N, its a shame if you only had to mod the D file lol...
Loire Valley was released but its not right ! and i hate it, because i can not fix

I use this : http://trackmania.forever.free.fr/wa_files/tutomod.pdf

S is for Specular. (Shows the lighting brightness and reflections. )
N is for normal map. (Shows the details in height. For example to make something look more bumpy.)
D is the Difuse. (Shows the color)

The 3 images are then put together by the game to make the final look.

Can't really help more then that. The Tutorial is in French tho.

shame its not english, could have worked it
10.000 planets if someone can make one in english

this is not how our community works, no need to pay for infos... if someone knows it he will gladly help - in this case i would suggest talking to hawk_ger, he created lots of mods and is quite familiar with these kind of things

ZiZa wrote:this is not how our community works, no need to pay for infos... if someone knows it he will gladly help - in this case i would suggest talking to hawk_ger, he created lots of mods and is quite familiar with these kind of things

I AM so sorry to offer the planets, it was for time it would take someone to make one..
but with google translater and another link someone sent me, i know understand what the S file does and how to mod it..
so half thx here and half thx elsewhere

nono, if you want to offer planets that's up to you, i was just saying it's normally not neccesary. Nice to hear you're getting somewhere

You can grab the photoshop actions that I used when I was making mods here.

Load it into photoshop and then do this:

Save your Diffuse then run through the actions in sequence i.e.


HalfIt - Halfs the pixel size of the image on screen
Duplicate - Er.. duplicates the images, so you now have 2 image tabs
Specular - Creates a specular image of the open tab - Save this as *S.dds and close it
Normal - Creates a normal map of the open tab - Save this as *N.dds and close it

This will save you a huge amount of time

Hope it helps

popgun

i guess i can offer planets then if you hold comps, just ask me

Popgun the god

I never thought of making an action out of it. That's so smart