Gears of War Game Adding Height, Displacement and Emissive Maps to Materials in UE3 (Gears of War) tutorial

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Intermediate - Adding Height, Displacement and Emissive Maps to Materials in UE3 (Gears of War)

Author : K1chi - k1chi@hotmail.co.uk

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
   
   
   1. Tutorial Overview
      
      
   
   
   2. Requirements
      
      
   
   
   3. Reccomended Listening
      
      


2. Step One - The Height Map
   1. Adding to a Material Shader
   2. Working ingame


3.  Conclusion
   1. Tutorial Recap
   2. See Also
   3. Resources

Introduction 

Tutorial Overview

In this Tutorial we're basically going to learn how to set up Height, Displacement and Emissive Maps inside of UE3 to further enhance your Material Shaders, using Gears of War as a base Engine. There won't be any actual Texture building here, it's literally an overview on how to take an existing Maps and make them effective inside of UE3. If you don't yet have a Basic Material Shader set up, or any additional Texture Maps built for use in this Tutorial I strongly advise you run through a couple of my previous Tutorials first, as they will bring you up to speed and help you build all the content you'll require:

• Building Essential Texture Maps for Material Shaders using Photoshop
  
  


• Basic Material Shaders for UE3 (Gears of War)
  
  


• Building Height, Displacement and Emissive Texture Maps using Photoshop
  
  

Please note (and I say this at the beginning of all tutorials) that there is never only ONE way of doing things, and my way is not necassarily the best for what you want to do. My advice is to use as many resources as possible which you then use those to develop YOUR way of doing things. This is your art so do whatever works best for you, because at the end of the day there is no right or wrong way when it comes to this stuff. Also I like to be quite thorough with my tutorials, so if you're looking for a quick and easy ‘step by step' solution with no babbling you may become quite frustrated with my style of writing, as I try to explain the logic for all my creative decisions as much as possible. However if you're looking for a comprehensive and detailed account of how I personally choose to do things, you've come to the right place.

Requirements

• Gears of War
  • Fun game, you could apply the lessons from here into UT3 or other games built upon UE3 (I'm not sure about ALL though) but Gears of War is the game I'm using


• A pre-built Material Shader
  • Go here to learn how : Basic Material Shaders for UE3 (Gears of War)



•  Height, Displacement and Emissive Texture Maps
  • Go here to learn how : Building Height, Displacement and Emissive Texture Maps using Photoshop