I believe normal maps are very sensitive to the compression type. I think DXT1 with no alpha is the correct one for DoA5. 3Dc seems to work as well but I think the engine perceives the extra data as a desaturated normal map though it might be useful for completely custom normal maps.
It's still Ayane's face, although with all the Kasumi garb it can be hard to tell. I thought it changed at first myself until really comparing the faces
Indeed. I just put Kasumi's skin on Ayane's (that sounds weird, right ?).
That was easy as their faces are pretty much identical
I seriously though about skipping it but I'm far too obsessive about details...I had to do it
Very Advent Children looking, AWESOME!
They're not hard to edit but there's a couple of things to consider. The alpha channel controls how glossy it is, if your image editor displays alpha as transparency it's confusing and impossible to edit. Secondly I think it multiplies the texture over the skin base texture, anything you put in the sweat color texture will darken everything.
I like the icecream effect but Kasumi looks like she just fell into a steamy shit.They're not hard to edit but there's a couple of things to consider. The alpha channel controls how glossy it is, if your image editor displays alpha as transparency it's confusing and impossible to edit. Secondly I think it multiplies the texture over the skin base texture, anything you put in the sweat color texture will darken everything.
I find the sweat/liquid system very amusing. With a little scripting you could make the engine do all kinds of crazy dynamic liquid effects but the PS3 probably lacked the ram to store a bunch of specialized textures for level specific mud, water and rain etc.
