I've started planning for the main project, i decided to make an in engine version of this place.
Im using Source/orangebox engine for this because i dont have UT3, also i think making this sort of thing would be easier, the most annoying part is importing things but i found an application that makes that part easier.
its called broadway tower, its a little watch tower built not far from my house, i thought it would be an interesting idea to tackle, apparantly on a day of clear weather, thirteen counties of England can be seen from the top of the tower, including across the Severn Valley to the Welsh mountains.
i havent been there in a while but im gonna go over christmas to take a bunch of pictures. Ill also try and take a panoramic photo for the skybox wich will be the first part of the project ill do, (ill also try to make it a HDR skybox wich means ill have to edit the panoramic to fit with these templates.
Im using Source/orangebox engine for this because i dont have UT3, also i think making this sort of thing would be easier, the most annoying part is importing things but i found an application that makes that part easier.
its called broadway tower, its a little watch tower built not far from my house, i thought it would be an interesting idea to tackle, apparantly on a day of clear weather, thirteen counties of England can be seen from the top of the tower, including across the Severn Valley to the Welsh mountains.
i havent been there in a while but im gonna go over christmas to take a bunch of pictures. Ill also try and take a panoramic photo for the skybox wich will be the first part of the project ill do, (ill also try to make it a HDR skybox wich means ill have to edit the panoramic to fit with these templates.
The above picture is an example i found of the different exposures i need to have for each image in the template. The example image is from a tutorial i am using to build the HDR skybox.
An HDR (High Dynamic Range) skybox is a 32-bit floating-point format, saved by an application that supports HDR as a Portable Float Map. It contains enough information to allow the resulting texture to change considerably across different exposures.
I have also downloaded a program called HDR shop that lets you easily combine images at different exposures and export them as one .PFM file
An HDR (High Dynamic Range) skybox is a 32-bit floating-point format, saved by an application that supports HDR as a Portable Float Map. It contains enough information to allow the resulting texture to change considerably across different exposures.
I have also downloaded a program called HDR shop that lets you easily combine images at different exposures and export them as one .PFM file
