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Static Materials

A pack of materials that I made for funsies, inspired by a map I saw one time. These materials, instead of appearing like a regular texture, look like an actual static effect. [There are a lot of materials, so make sure to keep your mouse hovered over them to see the full material name. All the materials are under pure_noise.]

It includes 2 main types of noise: grayscale and RGB. Both types contain moving, additive, and double-sided ($nocull) variants for shaded and fullbright versions. The non-moving materials only change when the camera view changes, while the moving ones constantly change. LightmappedGeneric materials are also available for mapping and using with Map Retexturizer.

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If you want to add this to your dedicated server, please use the compressed version instead.

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Warning: May not be potato PC friendly. These textures have a slight impact on FPS and use a lot of video memory (16 MB for grayscale, 64 MB for RGB).

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Map in screenshots: gm_genesis

A table describing the meanings of different keywords found in the material names. Hovering your mouse over a material will show you its path and name.

These materials make use of aliasing. To achieve its effect, a 4096x4096 texture of generated noise is used, which has no mipmaps and uses point sampling. The texture is also scaled down by 99x for maximum shimmering. The lack of mipmaps is what mostly achieves the effect. If you zoom in far with the camera, you will be able to see the individual pixels.

The moving materials use a proxy to shift and rotate the texture to a random position every frame.

• RGB noise doesn't have every 24 bit color (very minor and unnoticeable, but somewhat bothers me).
  
• Grayscale noise doesn't have the same amount of every shade (same deal as the former).

Unfixable

• Lit moving materials don't appear animated in the material list (game bug).
  
• MSAA causes gray seams to appear on geometry edges where the material is present.
  
• Noise will look like a pixelated texture, solid color, or lines on certain models due to their UV mapping.

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Tags: noise material pack noise materials pack static materials pack noise effect static material pack