Magic, Bobcats, Hornets correct uniforms (see ya in 2k12)

[Shawn15oth]

wow this is awsome, great work
release please.

[JoeJames]

NBA Synthetic Ball V4 -Release- (click here to download it)

Happy new year

[jenroe962002]

Thank You For The Release!!!!

[JoeJames]

Thanks jenroe962002

I´m a perfectionism (among my possibilities, xD) and after a little scare with the ball, I continued with my work and I this is the result



release?

[Shawn15oth]

hell yeah...release that.
i like it

[StormsWarning]

yep u nailed it good job.

[JoeJames]

Thanks guys

Do you want it with that texture (no the best, but something is something xD) or with the v4's texture (the orange color) ?


Now something that may like you



Money balls!!!

2007



2008



2009



2010

[karlsanada10]

I like the v5...and money balls! Nice!

[JoeJames]

Release Synthetic v5 & Money balls


Download them HERE

[MakeItHellaWet]

awsome

[michaelvlutz49]

good job

[JoeJames]

Well I continued trying to look for more realism and after a weird experiment with this image...



... I got this result



But everything couldn't be good news; the main issue that I found was that the Spalding logo is distorted, from this...


...to this...


I tried to solve it, but I think it could be better.

Another issue is the NBA Logo between "Official Game Ball" and "David Stern signature" I can't do it bigger (I'll try to do it, but I don´t know if that is possible).


So, what do you think?

[Mister ATM]

☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺

[JoeJames]

Ohh, sunken lines.. those photos are from a preview version of the ball, when I'll release it it will have them

& is confirmed, the NBA logo under Spalding logo can't be bigger

[StormsWarning]

i like v6 good job

[Sman21]

wow you have come along way since your 1st version.

When i saw the 1st version i thought ummm wtf.
But now it is looking awesome .
Great stuff

[Araneth]

You have to fix the alpha layer so the black lines will pop out..

Use the default ball's alpha as a guideline
Your alpha layer is plain white that's why the ball looks "flat"

Texture is great though

[MakeItHellaWet]

your best one yet joejames.
great job

[JoeJames]

Thanks guys; about sunken lines... they will be like v5 just wait the finals photos, the only thing that I can't do (maybe) is making puffy the synthetic leather, the reason is if I do that, the ball will have a middle sunken line.

Now let me show you two solutions to Spalding logo, please chose one

Solution A


Solution B

[gOry]

all the texture looks great bro..but you need better bumpmap imo..keep it up bro

[Araneth]

What I mean is this:

I made this crappy alpha :



in more or less 20 secs ...and used it in your texture .The ball looks more 3d :



No middle line at all..

What I mean is, you need to have a good alpha channel for the light to reflect properly on the ball ,giving it a "3d" feeling and not having it look like a plastic beach ball.

I m sure u can make the alpha look better than what I did, by just desaturating/contrasting the texture of your ball..

Btw I m just trying to help because I think you did a great job on the ball anyway and I wanna see it get better

[JoeJames]

No problem bro.

Just a couple of questions...
1) With that ball you eliminate the orange "texture" and in the first image in the IFF editor you have only black lines isn't?
2) The alpha is the "green" image?

Update... NBA logo between Stern's signature and Official ball I made it bigger

So, wich Spalding logo do you prefer?

[Araneth]

The alpha is a channel in the "DDS:0" texture (the orange one)

If you open that dds in photoshop apart from the "layers" tab there is a "channels" tab normally just having the red/green/blue channels but since this an "interpolated dds" file
it also includes a channel called "alpha".

That channel controls the amount of lighting that applies to certain parts of the texture.

So...what I mean is...

Your green texture is not the alpha channel it's a bump map file.

In your orange one (once u open it in photoshop),look for the "channels" tab and try to modify the "alpha" channel .(Don't change the orange texture itself,just the "alpha")

Hope I helped

[JoeJames]

Ohhhh ok, I'll will work with that (mmmm is weird but I see that alpha channel, but I can't change it, xD... but as I said I'll work to try to change it)

Now let me show you v7 (or 6.5, jajaja)

[MakeItHellaWet]

wow..you keep gettin better