"Sin City" / "Noir" artstyle or mod

[Gary]

Yes, not sure what happens with HDR off.

The texture can be any color.


Also, pretty sure you can have as many non-shadow-casting env_projectedtextures you want without code mods. (As long as r_flashlightscissor is 0).

[Naticus]

Here is a quick and dirty scene I put together using the $lightwarptexture parameter with a b/w texture. I only used this effect for the bricks and the player model. I think the key to this technique will be to use it for select textures. If it is used on everything, I think you lose too much detail. For this scene I also kept selective color in the sign and the blood. I altered the blood decal to enhance saturation and to make the actual blood part opaque. Let me know what you think.

[Armageddon]

That is nice, really really nice.

[Cherno]

Looks great indeed. Good point about the selective apporach.

Did you just convert the textures in this scene to b&w and added the $lightwarp parameter to the bricks? And did you use purely b&w lightwarp or is there some shading involved ?

[dissonance]

i think it'd be best to use a shader instead of doing it to the diffuse, just in case you'd like lightning to suddenly re-saturate the scene.

[Cherno]

That would mean telling the shader to only affect certain colors (all but specific red used for blood, for example). This, I believe, is only possible by adding some kind of special color channel in the diffuse map, which sounds incredibly hard if not impossible to accomplish Otherwise I'd agree that it would be the best solution.

[Armageddon]

The Source Shader editor could do something like that, only red is a visible color.

[Cherno]

Yeah, the thing is that every red would be visible as such, which is not desirable. So blood should show as red, but a red shirt etc. should still show up as b&w

[Armageddon]

I thought anything red shows up in the Sin universe, like a red tie. Also how did you make your own lightwarp texture thing, that bar, is that just a .vmf?

[Cherno]

The lightwarp texture is copied directly from the valve dev wiki and modified depending on how I wanted it to look.

[Naticus]

Looks great indeed. Good point about the selective apporach.

Did you just convert the textures in this scene to b&w and added the $lightwarp parameter to the bricks? And did you use purely b&w lightwarp or is there some shading involved ?

For that scene, I converted all the diffuse textures to B&W and then added the lightwarp to the bricks and player model. I just used a b&w strip for the lightwarp texture. From left to right, it was 2/3 black and 1/3 white.