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Many textures used for 3D art start from photographs. Ideally, such textures should be uniformly lit so that the texture does not interfere with the lighting applied by the 3D software. Often, lighting artefacts must be removed by hand. This can be tedious and time consuming.
The tool provided here aims to automate this process. It is still in an experimental phase, so it is very crude. Below you can see some of the before and after pictures.
Tags: filtering, game tools, Image Processing
The example for the tutorial How to Turn XSI Mod Tool into a Level Editor for your XNA Games: Updated for XNA 3.0 have also been updated to work with XNA 3.0. The XSI plug-in has also been tested in the new Mod Tool (7.5).
XSIModToolLevelEditor3.zip (5.2 MB).
Last year I wrote a tutorial explaining how to use XSI Mod Tool as a level editor, specifically for XNA. Below is the same tutorial, updated for XNA 3.0. There are only a few minor changes:
I also corrected quite a few typos.
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Tags: art pipeline, editor, game tools, level editor, XNA, XSI Mod Tool
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