Recent content by Burma's Finest

Given that there are only 30 slots to play with, the chances of producing a massive bat pack like in Cricket 07 are slim. My batpack will be a fair representation of the bats used by international players. Here's the GM Icon DXM used by many current internationals:

As I said in the first post of this thread, I'll make the bats available once we've got a legal way to import them into the game. Here's the Puma Iridium GTR used by Freddie Flintoff and Marcus North:

Ok. I think I've got the hang of this specular map thing for bat stickers now... ... I'm still bothered that the bats themselves don't show much specular reflection though... I'll need to work on this.

So here's the final result after all that... (apologies for the motion blur)

Ok Tom, check this out... After a bit of playing around with my specular maps, here's what I've got so far. The image below is a plain bat diffuse map with the MRF Genius specular map I've created. Obviously I've left out the colour map for the stickers in order to demonstrate the specular...

Well, I have a certain logic I'm working to but I'm more than happy to try anything that produces the desired results. :) Here's the challenge as I see it... I've put 3 images below taken from my Adidas Pellara Elite texture files. The 1st image is the base wood grain texture; the 2nd...

Yeah, good idea. Thing is, the shaders produce a very poor specular finish on flat surfaces in the game. It only looks any good where there are normal maps/height maps. Otherwise you end up with a nasty semi-opague white 'layer' over the top of the stickers which looks rubbish. I'm...

There aren't any normal maps for the bats but there are specular maps. I've been playing around with the specular maps as I don't like the effects produced by the default ones which are greyscale and give a uniform flat white 'gloss' to everything. I haven't quite found the perfect formula...

I've also already done the Slazenger Oz-Blade...

That looks fantastic! Great stuff. Will you be doing all of the unlicenced teams as well?

True. They are definitely the best bat textures seen in a cricket game to date. My only reservation is that I think a lot of their other textures (like kits, accessories, stadium ads, etc.) are of a significantly higher quality than their bats which I find a bit odd.

Ok, so, here's a sneak preview of a like-for-like comparison... Kahuna by Transmission: and Kahuna by me: (and bear in mind that mine has been compressed from 3Mb to 150k :D)

Haha, well spotted. Can't get away with anything in HD. :) Well, I just set my graphics card to force 8X AA etc. so not too bad. ;) Not sure if that's going to be possible. Will depend on how cunning Colin and AbBh can be. ;)

For those who remember me, hello again! For those who don't, hello for the first time! I've been making hi-res bat textures for cricket games since EA's Cricket 2004. Some of you may even have used them. ;) Anyway, this is really just a heads up for those of you who are looking for graphic...

Sorry, stupid question time... What are 'Set 1' and 'Set 2' in the editor? On a completely different note, I don't know if this will help you with the editor or not in terms of being able to assign a specific bat to a specific player but... I've attached below a list of all the bats...