Building Height, Displacement and Emissive Texture Maps using Photoshop tutorial

Sometimes the fundamental's of a Material Shader just aren't enough, you need some extra details to pull through which you simpley cannot achieve through using the required Diffuse, Specular and Normal Maps. Here we are going to create Height, Displacement and Emissive Texture maps, ready to be integrated into our Material Shaders.

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Intermediate - Building Height, Displacement and Emissive Texture Maps using Photoshop

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. What is a Height Map? 
   2. Adding to a Material Shader
   3. Working ingame


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