BFHeroes'42: Belfry Sqaure - Finished Result

Channel:

Apache Thunder

Subscribers:

1,640

Published on January 2, 2014 7:00:16 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUbC2X5TiX0

Game:

Battlefield 1942 (2002)

Duration: 2:34

1,100 views

16

Here's what completed conversion of the map will look like. New in this video is increased detail in terrain textures. Animated birds in the distance and various other improvements. I think the end result has the map actually look better then the original in Avatar Star!

I did some photoshop tricks to merge the detail map to the colormap for the terrain. The original BF2 style detail map texture for the terrain was saved along with the other textures when the scene was ripped to file. I used Photoshop to separate out the color channels and each one I mapped a specific detail texture (the ones from Avatar Star were low quality or not ripped correctly, so I used detail textures from Battlefield Heroes. No big deal since Avatar Star steals textures from BFH already to begin with. :P )

I then filled in each layer with the bucket tool set to pattern fill (with the selected detail texture stored in the clipboard.

Long story short, I was able to get BF2 style detail maps on the terrain to work in BF1942. It's not using the same system BF2 did, but it looks damn close. Probably the best map I've made for this game engine. :D

Other Statistics