My mission - to track down legendary developer Randy Pitchford, who, it was rumoured, was as big as a giant and had a rocket launcher for an arm. Throngs of pallid, under-nourished journos shunted their way from one room to the next as Hill and I peeled off in opposite directions. The exponent texture is a 256 square texture by default to conserve memory, so be thoughtful.After four and a half hours, we arrived at the grandiose building, and were promptly ushered out of the vehicle by clucking Frenchmen towards the galleries housing a host of VU Games developers demonstrating their wares to the press. the "view_model_exponent_override_size" should only be used in conjunction with an exponent map in the alpha channel of the pattern texture, and only if a lower resolution exponent texture is visibly reducing the quality of the finish. "view_model_exponent_override_size" "1024" Masking is accessible through the pattern’s alpha channel for the custom painted parts Exponent is accessible through the pattern’s alpha channel for the patinated parts Choose four colors to determine the wear characteristics of the patina A predefined paint by number system determines which parts will have a patina and which parts will be custom painted Combines Patina and Custom Paint Job styles The rest of the weapon is painted using the Custom Paint Job style, and allows paint masking using the alpha channel in those areas. The exponent value range is identical to Anodized Multicolored (0-127, rescaled 2x on application). Additionally, it allows the exponent to be specified in the alpha channel of the pattern texture for the areas of the weapon that are given a patina. Gunsmith Style combines Patina and Custom Paint Job. The default phong exponent from the finish definition is used for values above 128. Those values are rescaled 2x on application, giving an effective range of 1-255. As a result, the exponent values are stored only in the 0-127 range of the alpha channel.
This allows finishes that look as though they are comprised of several different types and reflectivities of paint.Īnodized Multicolored also supports additional paint masking using the same value ranges as the Hydrographic and Custom Paint Job styles. By default, one value is used over the entire weapon.Īnodized Multicolored Style allows the exponent to be specified in the alpha channel of the pattern texture. The phong exponent controls the size of the phong highlights on the finish.
That said the wear values don't have to be the full range and many weapon finishes ship with wear values from Factory New (0.0) to Battle Scarred (0.6). In general, finishes should be available in all wear values from Factory New to Battle Scarred with a few exceptions.
The original, unfinished material underneath is called the substrate.
This texture also influences how quickly the finish wears off different features of the weapon. On top of their RGB channels, Color textures have an additional, optional “alpha” channel.Įach finishable weapon uses a special texture to determine what parts should receive finish.