Vertex Painting in Gmax/Renx

Tutorial for Battle for Middle-earth BFME, Battle for Middle-earth II: Rise of the Witch-king ROTWK

robnkarla

Category:	Graphics
Level:	Intermediate
Created:	Saturday April 5, 2008 - 22:31
Updated:	Sunday April 3, 2011 - 2:26
Views:	6575
Summary:	Use Vertex Painting for Banner Glows and More

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For the Banner FX I'm going to assume you've already created you banner carrier and we are just going to work on the glow. (You can find binding/modeling articles on the site, this will just focus on the FX.)

First thing we'll do is import one of the glow objects from an existing banner carrier (gubanner_skn in this example). Import the file and hide everything else except the GLOW object. To do this, select the glow, right-click, and select hide unselected. If you do not see the texture, make sure the .dds file (excloudrs05.tga) has been extracted and converted to .tga format and in the same folder as gubanner_skn.

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Next step will be to set up the standard Banner Glow FX material for the GLOW object.

- Select the GLOW object and open the material editor (Shortcut = M).
- In the Material Editor Click the "Get Renegade Material"
- Rename the Material to BANNER_GLOW or whatever you would like it to be named
- Click Statis Sorting Level (1 will work) This step is the one most commonly missed for Forged Blades, Banner Glows, and other fx.
- Next enter the emissive value - this will be the color of the glow. 0 161 244 is the stanard blue, but you can change the color to whatever you'd like.
- Select Linear Offset to both of the stage 0 & 1 mapping, and enter the 4 lines in the screen capture below.
- Change the blend mode to Add, then Detail Color to Scale
- For the Stage 1 Texture add the excloudrs05.tga texture to that as well.

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