UT3 Lava Material Demo

UT3 Lava Material Demo

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• unreal
• tournament
• ut3
• lava
• engine
• mod
• modding
• material
• texture
• shader

[mheyman89]

So you just layed down some of the base colors (the blacks and oranges/yellows), ran some filters and made it tile-able?

I too am trying to make a lava material like this though I can't figure out a way to approach the diffuse.

[DazJamesW]

From the looks of the texture it's just the render > clouds filter with something done to make it more clumpy.

[mheyman89]

how did you go about creating your diffuse? Or is it photo sourced?

[DazJamesW]

I just played with filters and stuff in Photoshop, though I can't remember which unfortunately.

[Siah2000]

That's awesome!!!, could you post up an image of the material? like how you set it up?

[DazJamesW]

It's basically a fairly straightforward material with a diffuse, specular and an emissive map that all pan together. Then in addition to that there's a second emissive map which pans the other way to give a second layer of brightness to it (you can just about see shadows moving the opposite direction to the lava flow). Just for extra fun there's a fresnel tied into the emissive channel aswell so if you look down into the lava it's brighter than it is in the distance. There's a fog plane too.

[DazJamesW]

I'm not sure what the best way to do that would be. I suppose you could have a mesh emitter of some sort but to be honest even the particle system on this is more or less wasted resources.

[falconianuk]

would have been nice to see some realistic lava bubbles here, everyone is doing flat lava :(