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- Albedo
- VAT (vertex animation texture)
- Flow map
- Gradient map
- Transform color thanks to matrix
- Contributor
Texture that store the brut color of the pixel
Texture that store a noise effect and that will be usefull to avoid flat aspect of nearest texture. This effect give the illusion that the texture containe more detail.
- Monochrome
- Blended with albedo
- Can be small and tiled
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Texture that store animation. Each pixel is the local position (or normal) of a vertex. All vertex is in line and animation key correspond to the row.
- RGB
- GPU animation only (static mesh in CPU)
- Avoid data transfer fro CPU to GPU
- Without bone (without link for colllider, object...). Great for background animation
- Blend is possible with another VAT
Flow map is a texture that allow user to create movement thanks to the UV. This technical is based on the UV tiling but with more complexe movement
- R, RG, RGB, RGBA
Gradiant map is a technical to color monochrome texture fastly and with flexibilty. User can change the gradient map to obtain differentes color effects.
- RGB, RGBA
Matrices can be use to translate, rotate, scale, shrink a vector. Color is a vector and this rule can be applyed to it.
- Jonathan Six