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Keratin Project Released-- Face Keratin Normal Map DR

January 5, 2013, 2:43 am
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*2013/1/12 This project has been exploded. Please go to You Are Real Project!
Male/Female 




Revised v1.1



Seeing the newest skin from S-Club with keratin on the face shown good effects, I just recall my stuff...

I proposed the Keratin Project in July last year, but didn't get it realized because of my technique.
So I just laid it untouched for a half year.

But you know...people always get something resolved after rest for some time...
Also for me....
Now I can share my achievement here with you~~~

Young Adult Male

This project is made with Normal Map which adds fake 3D effects on a surface.
And the keratin will look a little different in depth and direction according to your light direction and intensity.
It's totally different from other skin.
(And actually this is not a skintone, but it replaces the normal map of the skin.)


All exhibition are lightened from right-forward to iintensify the keratin effects
Skin: Navetsea Model

Male (Near)

Male (Far)

Female (Near)

Female (Far)


Lightened from three direction
You can see some difference from the pictures above.


All pictures are taken in HQ.
However, by some tests, there are almost no difference in HQ and non-HQ.
Also, Teens share the same normal map with young adult.

And remember, you can only see the keratin clearly at very close distance.
You can't see your keratin at a far distance, can you.
But it still can affect the light effects on face so the face will become much more realistic.


Keratin Strength Settings:
Young Male: 13, Adult Male: 20, Elder Male: 28
Young Female: 8, Adult Female: 16, Elder Female: 25
(Settings changed.)

Child skin is very smooth, so I didn't made keratin face for child.
(Will also be available)


This is a default replacement mod.
Since almost no other skintone included normal map,
you can see the keratin effects on all skin.

However, old skin that do not support muscle definition should not show keratin effects either.
(Or it shows normal map but not muscle definition...whatever)
Use Cmar's newest Skininator to repack it.
(Tutorial not provided)


Download link is taken down.
Please go to the newest You Are Real Project page.
Male/Female 





This mod replaces the following textures...
_IMG ymFace_n_0x598325880b644f6f
_IMG amFace_n_0x6f853f0e35157e27
_IMG emFace_n_0x7edd5d417bc66683
_IMG yfFace_n_0x66f8047c00c00cb8
_IMG afFace_n_0x40e5744b0dbfc320
_IMG efFace_n_0x503c527e546e8c5c





Some pictures when I made this mod in blender
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Next Project: You Are Real

January 5, 2013, 6:44 am
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Next project could be a big project.

Well I was just wanting to make some sexy vessels on male body but suddenly some idea popped up!




It will be another normal map project.
I want to make all body details into this normal map...
Like this picture.


Draw out every ankle and vessels details as bump map (Greyscale) and use displacement on a high resolution mesh. And bake them into normal map!

You can contact me if you're interested in cooperating this project~
(Before I finished it)
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Next Project: You Are Real (Progress)

January 6, 2013, 4:04 am
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2/3 done of male......

Vessels revised asymmetrically


Hand details revised


Foot not done yet.




How do I work in Blender...






Not only for Male....
Female and child version will also be available.
So keep patient~~~~~~


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Project: You Are Real (Progress: Idiot)

January 7, 2013, 11:22 pm
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Damn... I'm an idiot...
Blender can bake to normal map just from texture.....
I don't need to do multiresolution on my mesh anymore.......
I'm free from crashing my laptop~~~~~~~~~~LOL

And the details will be more clear than using displacement method~~~

Oh... And I can add keratin to the body too. Cheer~~~~

Also need a big revision of the keratin face project .
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Project: You Are Real -- Adlut Male Body Beta Pre-Release

January 8, 2013, 9:54 am
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Adult male body beta pre-release

Body added with keratin.
Vessels and keratin are too strong. Need adjustment and blurred.
Will connect to face keratin in the future.


Download from Google driver


You can have a test.
This one will conflict with my abdominal muscle V3 and my 18+ normal map DR.
Delete them before use.

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You Are Real - Part I: Male

January 9, 2013, 12:46 am
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*Body Updated to V1.5 Please re-download.*
Details strength adjusted. New abdominal muscle. New keratin face. Adam's apple added.



This project is to give your SIMs more real 3D details on their skin by modifying the normal map.
This project added....
Fingers, hands, toes details
Small wrinkles on joints
Vessels on arms (High muscle definition)
Keratin on body
Revised keratin face project (Keratin face project will also be merged into this project totally)



Connected between face and body

Revised face keratin (v1.2~)

Tongue (face v1.4~)

Adam's apple (v1.5~)


Hand and foot details (v1.4~)


Muscle definition (from left, 0, 0.5 ,1) (EA's Ab)

New Abdominal Muscle (v1.4~)


Body keratin

Revised Muscle obliquus internus abdominis (elongated)
(Skin for exhibition: Navetsea Model)




Download from Google Driver
(Choose only one body)

For High-Spec user (Texture size 2048, Texture Detail High and SIM Detail Veryhigh)

Male Face v1.4

Male Body v1.5 New Abdominal (Barbie Version, no nipples and genital)

Male Body v1.5 EA Abdominal (Barbie Version, no nipples and genital)


For Low-Spec user (Texture size 1024, Texture Detail Med and SIM Detail High, keratin and some detail will be blurred)

Male Face v1.4, 1024

Male Body v1.5 New Abdominal, 1024 (Barbie Version, no nipples and genital)

Male Body v1.5 EA Abdominal, 1024 (Barbie Version, no nipples and genital)


Get body with genital details and nipples from my 18+ branch site.



IMPORTANT!!!!!!
*Remember to delete my Abdominal Muscle V1 ~ V3.
**Remember to delete my Adult Body Normal Map V1 ~ V2.
***Remember to delete my old Keratin Face Project files.
****You need to set in game Texture Detail and SIM Detail as mentioned AT LEAST for best representation. HQ is NOT needed for 2048 texture.
*****Use Cmar's newest Skininator to repack your old skin if it does not support muscle definition.  (Tutorial not provided)



!!!!And you need to know!!!!
This is a default-skin replacement and not!
It only contains the skin normal maps, and almost all other default and non-default skintones only contain diffuse and specular maps. So they DON'T conflict each other. And you will see this 3D effects on almost every newly packed skin.



This is a default replacement mod.
Replacing the following normal maps...
_IMG ymFace_n_0x598325880b644f6f
_IMG amFace_n_0x6f853f0e35157e27
_IMG emFace_n_0x7edd5d417bc66683
_IMG amBody_n_0x4DB46D1662895FC0
_IMG amBodyCutness_n_0xA28B589500895C8F 

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You Are Real - Part II: Female

January 11, 2013, 10:28 pm
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*Body Updated to V1.5 Please re-download.*
Details strength adjusted. New abdominal muscle. New keratin face. Adjusted for better small breast.



Female part of You Are Real Project.

(Skin for exhibition: Navetsea Model)


Revised face keratin with lip wrinkles (v1.2~)

Keratin available on tongue (v1.4~)


Muscle definition (from left, 0, 0.5 ,1)

Hand and foot details adjusted (v1.4~)


Body keratin



Skin: Ephemera nATURAL






Download from Google Driver

For High-Spec user (Texture size 2048, Texture Detail High and SIM Detail Veryhigh)

Female Face v1.4

Female Body v1.5 (Barbie Version, no nipples and genital)


For Low-Spec user (Texture size 1024, Texture Detail Med and SIM Detail High, keratin and some detail will be blurred)

Female Face v1.4, 1024

Female Body v1.5, 1024 (Barbie Version, no nipples and genital)


Get body with genital details and nipples from my 18+ branch site.


IMPORTANT!!!!!!
**Remember to delete my Adult Body Normal Map V1 ~ V2.
***Remember to delete my old Keratin Face Project files.
****You need to set in game Texture Detail and SIM Detail as mentioned AT LEAST for best representation. HQ is NOT needed for 2048 texture.
*****Use Cmar's newest Skininator to repack your old skin if it does not support muscle definition.  (Tutorial not provided)



!!!!And you need to know!!!!
This is a default-skin replacement and not!
It only contains the skin normal maps, and almost all other default and non-default skintones only contain diffuse and specular maps. So they DON'T conflict each other. And you will see this 3D effects on almost every newly packed skin.



This is a default replacement mod.
Replacing the following normal maps...
_IMG yfFace_n_0x66F8047C00C00CB8
_IMG afFace_n_0x40E5744B0DBFC320
_IMG efFace_n_0x503C527E546E8C5C
_IMG afbody_n_0xB4CDC208D8D51BF3
_IMG afbodyCleavage_n_0x6731C72E72BABDF3
_IMG afbodyCutness_n_0x86DB95357084C4E2

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You Are Real - Part III: Child

January 18, 2013, 2:04 am
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Child part of You Are Real Project.
Because children have very smooth skin, so keratin strength is set to very low, so you can only notice at very short distance.






Download from Google Driver
(Choose only one)

For High-Spec user (Texture size 2048, Texture Detail High and SIM Detail Veryhigh)

Child Face+Body v1.0 (Barbie version)

Child Face+Body v1.0 (with Nipples)
(Nipples is compatible with Navetsea skin. May also compatible with other skins.)


For Low-Spec user (Texture size 1024, Texture Detail Med and SIM Detail High, keratin and some detail will be blurred)

Chile Face+Body v1.0, 1024 (Barbie version)

Child Face+Body v1.0, 1024 (With Nipples)
(Nipples is compatible with Navetsea skin. May also compatible with other skins.)


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You Are Real -- A Skin Normal Map Revision

January 18, 2013, 2:25 am
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You Are Real (YRL) project is to give your SIMs more real 3D details on their skin by modifying the skin normal map. These details include......

Fingers, hands, toes details
Small wrinkles on joints
Vessels on arms (High muscle definition)
Revised body details including nipples and genitals
Keratin on body
Revised keratin face project (Keratin face project has been totally merged into this project)



Changes form v1.0:
Keratin face revision
Tongue added with keratin and middle cleavage

More body details added
Body keratin and details strength adjusted
New abdominal muscle (Male)
Vessels strength adjusted 
Adjusted for better small breast female
Newly drawn 18+ details. (Only for 18+ version)



Get default replacement here.....

Male Barbie Version / 18+ Version
Face v1.4/Body v1.5 now

Female Barbie Version / 18+ Version
Face v1.4/Body v1.5 now

Child
v1.0 now



YRL as non-default skin.....
Get them here


Compatible with all patch version after Late Night expansion.
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Environment lighting tweaks v5.6 GOLD (Updated)

January 27, 2013, 7:55 am
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*2013/2/24 Updated to v5.6
Cloud at the sun side at sunrise and sunset revised to dark cloud.
Dynamic shadow files changed. Now with sun halo
Should be settled this time.

*2013/2/23 Updated to v5.5
Totally redrawn aurora with 10 transitions and gradient
Sky blue adjusted in daytime
Added new weather settings with different aurora probability
In 1.50, custom weather is not rotated anymore, so there are two version available.

*2013/2/22 Updated to v5.2
Sunset color adjusted
Overall lightness adjusted in Clear, Partly Cloudly, Aurora(Custom)
Aurora possibility changed from 5% to 20% (Regular) and 25% (MoreSunny)

*2013/2/1 Updated to v5.1*
Cloud color adjusted to reveal smoother gradient in the night.
Cloud parameter changed.
Aurora changed brighter.
Because EA's moonlight (Sunlight actually) is horizontal, it doesn't show correct moonlight shadow effect. Adjusted down.
Sunlight balance adjusted.


Sunrise and Sunset. Double side view.


(These pictures use BigSunMoon setting)

Autumn Fall (Custom World)

Sunset

Sunset (opposite direction)

Night

Mont Saint Michel (Custom World)
Sunrise

Twinbrook
Sunset




Night


Sunrise


Water color at sunrise

Bad weather



Bridgeport
Daytime


(All pictures above are before v5.1)


v5.1 Cloud in night

v5.2 sunset color

v5.5 New aurora, 10 transitions and gradient

Sunrise, sunset and new aurora in v5.5


v5.5 adjusted sky blue

v5.5 NEW Aurora in game

Old aurora before v5.2

v5.6 Sun halo and darker cloud at sunset





This new version of Env lighting tweak is a totally redraw from blank. Totally different from v4.0.

In v5.0 there is gold sunrise, pink orange sunset, softer shaped but more colorful cloud, blue-purple night sky.
Install it like v4.0


Download from Google Driverv5.6
Readme included.
(Color and Weather: 5.6 and 5.6Aurora need to be used in pair.
 You can't use color:5.6 with weather:5.6Aurora.
 Lighting and DynamicShaodw are global. They can be used with both 5.6 and 5.6Aurora.
 Choose only one file in each directory)


Such as v4.0, this mod is made with ColorRamp, you don't need to modify the world files.
And actually this is not a gaming or functional mod. It just a default replacement of the environment color setting. So this should be compatible with all patch versions and expansions.


*I take no request.
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You Are Real -- Non-default Skin

January 28, 2013, 5:35 am
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You Are Real as non-default skin. For people who don't want to see YRL on every skin.

This one is different from other skintone. It contains ONLY normal maps. So it will use your typical default skin (diffuse map) and add fake 3D appearance on it.

Containing Male, Female and Child face and body normal maps.
Two color tone included. Normal skin color with 4 hues, and rainbow color with 4 luminosity.

I made two non-default skins, New Ab and EA's Ab, with various versions. Take only one version each.


Get them from my Google Driver

Nipple position is compatible with Navetsea skin.

For High-Spec user (Texture size 2048, Texture Detail High and SIM Detail Veryhigh)

New Ab
Nipples + Genital v1.5

Genitals Only v1.5

Barbie Version v1.5


EA's Ab
Nipples + Genital v1.5

Genitals Only v1.5

Barbie Version v1.5



For Low-Spec user (Texture size 1024, Texture Detail Med and SIM Detail High, keratin and some detail will be blurred)

New Ab
Nipples + Genital v1.5, 1024

Genitals Only v1.5, 1024

Barbie Version v1.5, 1024


EA's Ab
Nipples + Genital v1.5, 1024

Genitals Only v1.5, 1024

Barbie Version v1.5, 1024


Check pictures with genitals from my 18+ blog.
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My Download Stuff

January 30, 2013, 2:54 am
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I have categorized all my stuff into this page.
You can also find this page on the tab just below the title and annoucement.
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Improved CAS Camera Angle

February 4, 2013, 10:22 pm
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Sometimes I'm really tired of my SIMs face looked so different in CAS and Live mode.
However, after some testing, I found that the viewing angle in live mode we used to take is somehow different to EA did in CAS mode (Totoally horizontal).
So I just edited the camera setting ini for CAS mode.
I love the zoom-in improvement shimrod did in his Zoom-In CAS Camera mod. I just take his file so I can preserve his improved zoom-in function and changed the view angle when morphing SIMs face.



Angle we used to take in live mode. (From a little higher position)

 Original Angle (Totally horizontal)

My improved angle (From a little higher position)
Wide Screen Resolution


4:3 Screen Resolution


Download from my Google driver
1.38~1.48 compatible
(Permitted by Shimrod)

Shimrod101's original version on MTS.

*Edit the ini yourself if you are not using 1.38~1.48.
I only modified these four parts in CAScameras and CAScamerasWS ini.
[AdultFaceNew]
[ElderFaceNew]
[YoungAdultFaceNew]
[TeenFaceNew]
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Igarashi, ChinChin and Murasaki

February 7, 2013, 6:51 am
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五十嵐貴史(Igarashi Takashi)






晴晴(Chin Chin)




紫晴(Murasaki Hare)
Female version of Chin Chin. Only lip width and nose width adjusted.



Download 晴晴 and 紫晴
Skin: Ephemera Natural (TAN?)

Igarashi is not available now.
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OMSP Resizer FTPT and OBJD Fixed

February 9, 2013, 10:28 pm
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My FTPT and OBJD setting is different from original OMSP.
(ex. You can sit on a chair put on OMSP or use items on OMSP, but you can't do that on my OMSP resizer.)
This issue has been fixed.
Please re-download OMSP Resizer from this article.
Also set a new category to surface, misc surface.

Only the FTPT and OBJD revised so you don't need to worry that your design will be lost.
Just replace the files.
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Bake Normal Map from Bump Map in Blender

February 17, 2013, 2:46 am
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Normal map is a good way to add 3D effect on a low-poly mesh. However, lots of CC creators don't know how to use this. We see lots of creations with dark/shadow parts on the diffuse map to make it more 3D-looking. However, the dark/shadow parts will not change with light direction and sometimes they look flat and weird.

So here I write this tutorial to teach you how to make normal map from bump map for your creation in blender. (I'm not using MAYA or 3D Max so you have to figure it out yourself if you're using them.)

In this tutorial, I will create a cube with an embossed heart and engraved "I love you" on it.



OK~~Our material is this cube

And its UV.....

If you don't have the UV map you can export the UV to png
Change UI to UV

Then export UV Layout

Sometimes it's pretty hard to convert the mesh to high-poly to sculpt it. So bump map is a good method to add 3D effect because we can draw it in image software.
However, one bump map can only store one-side information. So you need to draw UP and DOWN directions seperately.

So here I have this two bump map.
(UV margin line is not included in the bump map. Just show you here.)

OK. Let's get back to blender.
In 3D view mode, press N to get this panel shown.

Expand Display, set Shading to GLSL.

And change Viewport Shading to Texture.

Select the cube, Go to Material Panel, Add a new material if no material is present.

Then switch to Texture Panel just next to Material Panel.
Add a new texture

Select Type to Image or Movie.
Select your Bump Map under Image
Remember to check the box on the right of your texture to make it visible.

The texture will show on the mesh, but not mapped by UV.

Expand Mapping, change Coordinates from Generated to UV

The texture position and size should be corrected now.

But this is treated as diffuse map. We need to change it to bump map.
Expand Influence, uncheck Diffuse: Color, check Geometry: Nor
If you use bump map, then positive value will be DOWN and negative value will be UP.
Different value will give different depth.
So here I set Nor to -1.

And you can see, the heart has become embossed.

Go back to top of Texture panel. Add a new texture and do the same process again to apply "I love you" as another bump map.
Set the Nor to positive so it will be engraved.

Good! You have done applying your bump map on your mesh.
Next! We need to bake it into normal map.

It's a good way to drag the triangle to make your work space double windowed.

Change one of your window to UV/Image Editor

In the window of 3D view mode, select the cube, press Tab to go into Edit Mode, press a to select all vertex.

In UV/Image Editor window, create a new image.

You can give it a new name or leave it unchanged. Change Width and Height according to your texture size or leave it 1024.

Switch to Render Panel

Scroll down to bottom, expand Bake
Select Bake Mode as Normals, Normal Spac as Tangent.

Then press bake, and you will see the normal map baked.

Save the normal map image.

OK! You've done it!
But let's check the normal map again.

Go back to Object mode by pressing Tab in 3D view window again.
Switch to Texture Panel again
Uncheck the bump maps
Add new texture to import the baked normal map and set as what you did previously.
Check the Normal Map under Image Sampling, leave it Tangent.
Set Nor to 1


Is it over? Not yet
In SIMS3, the normal map is saved as A8L8 type. So we need to convert RGB normal map to that type.

RGB Normal Map: R=X, G=Y, B=Z information.
A8L8 Normal Map: A=X, L=Y information, Z will be calculated.

Here I use photoshop to do it.
Open baked normal map in photoshop.
Add a new alpha channel.

Copy the Red channel to Alpha.
Copy the Green channel to Red and Blue.

Save it to dds format, leave Alpha Channels checked

You can save it as A8L8, DXT5 or DXT5_NM, they all should be workable.

YOU'VE DONE!!!

P.S. You can draw your bump map in 16-bit for smoother result.
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Environment lighting tweaks updated to v5.6 GOLD

February 22, 2013, 2:50 am
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See and download from this article

*2013/2/24 Updated to v5.6
Cloud at the sun side at sunrise and sunset revised to dark cloud.
Dynamic shadow files changed. Now with sun halo
Should be settled this time.

*2013/2/23 Updated to v5.5
Totally redrawn aurora with 10 transitions and gradient
Sky blue adjusted in daytime
Added new weather settings with different aurora probability
In 1.50, custom weather is not rotated anymore, so there are two version available.

*2013/2/22 Updated to v5.2
Sunset color adjusted
Overall lightness adjusted in Clear, Partly Cloudly, Aurora(Custom)
Aurora possibility changed from 5% to 20% (Regular) and 25% (MoreSunny)



v5.2 Adjusted sunset color

v5.5 New aurora, 10 transitions and gradient

Sunrise, sunset and new aurora in v5.5a


v5.5 adjusted sky blue

v5.5 Aurora in game








v5.6 Sun halo and darker cloud at sunset
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Aurora Skies Original Lighting Modified

February 23, 2013, 9:18 am
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aWT Eyeball Cross-eyed Issue Fixed

February 24, 2013, 8:56 pm
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aWT eyeball cross-eyed issue fixed for both male and female, teen to elder
The UV size is adjusted a little so the iris will be 0.96x smaller (very little difference). This fix another flowering iris issue.
(Publish is allowed by aWT Mark)

Two versions available for SimSkin and SimEyes shader, choose only one,
SimSkin: Compatible with aWT eye sliders, no glowing when turning into vampire, werewolf or ghost.
SimEyes, Uncompatible with aWT eye sliders, glowing compatible.

Replace aWT's original one (aWT_MSH_LOD0-Eyeball) with this. 

Download from my Google Driver

Original is HERE.

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Star Field Texture Replacement V2 (Broken Spikes Fixed)

February 25, 2013, 8:04 pm
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(All pictures above: StarIntensity=82)

V2 is another revision of the star field texture and the texture size is multiply to 1024x1024. So the star looks smaller and more delicate than V1 (removed).
The texture is also adjusted for better presentation under lower StarIntensity settings.

Download from my Google driver V2 (Broken spikes issue fixed)
Compatible with any environment lighting tweaks so far, and mine.
Compatible with all patch version.

This is a texture default replacement which replace the following item:
_IMG 0x08D39108DC211DC6_NightSkyStarsFlat

*If your spec is pretty low (Texture setting to low), or you want the star twice bigger, use 512x512 version instead. 


StarIntensity=65, the star spikes and darker star will become invisible. So this one can give you natural effect with different StarIntensity settings.
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