User:EricChadwick

• I'm a veteran game development artist with experience in various roles.
• I'm also an administrator for this wiki; if you have any questions feel free to contact me.

Links

• Wiki contributions: Special:Contributions/EricChadwick
• Forum name: Eric Chadwick
• Portfolio: http://ericchadwick.com
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericchadwick

Bookmarks

Help:Formatting

Help:Images

Ancient Pages to Fix

• PolycountOldTOC
• OldSiteResourcesGeneralMiscellaneous
• General_Tutorials
• OldSiteResourcesQuake2Tools
• OldSiteResourcesQuake3ShaderManual

To Do

• Add modular info from this thread to this wiki page.
• Normal_map is too long, and out of date.
• GameRenderingTerminology should be folded into Glossary pages.
• Migrate content from TAO wiki.
• Fix links on CgFX
• PolycountOldTOC = kill it?

Image Formatting

Image as link, no float.

[[image:vertex_alpha_lava_example.jpg|none|200px|frameless|link=http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=148176]]
Image as link, no float.
[[image:|none|200px|frameless|link=]]

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  8bit, 256 grays (enlarged 4x).

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  4bit, 16 grays (enlarged 4x).

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  1bit, black and white only (enlarged 4x).

<gallery mode="nolines" widths=120px heights=120px>
alpha_8bit.gif|8bit, 256 grays (enlarged 4x). 
alpha_4bit.gif|4bit, 16 grays (enlarged 4x).
alpha_1bit.gif|1bit, black and white only (enlarged 4x).
</gallery>

This lava shader uses vertex alpha for transparent edges. Image by Eric Chadwick.

[[image:vertex_alpha_lava_example.jpg|thumb|left|200px|This lava shader uses vertex alpha for transparent edges. Image by [http://ericchadwick.com Eric Chadwick].]]<br clear="all"/>

Image as a link.

[[Image:2dtut_thumbwar.png|link=http://www.autodestruct.com/thumbwar.htm]] Image as a link.

Alphas by Eric Chadwick

{|
|[[image:alpha_8bit.gif]] [[image:alpha_4bit.gif]] 
|-
|rowspan="2"|Alphas by [http://ericchadwick.com Eric Chadwick]
|}