general: work on gorgeous material

[jbilcke]

it is very possible to have beautiful material in WebGL.. see:
http://www.clicktorelease.com/code/spherical-normal-mapping/

need this on our various units

what is sexy, for instance, is to have no texture, but only a bumpmap + env / reflections

[jbilcke]

example of material we could use

(these snapshots have been made using the demo by clicktorelease, the parameters are on the right, and important to reproduce results):

eg. alien dark skin:

alien motherbrain:

His app is quite nice, because it support drag & drop. It could be used along threejs-editor to quickly debug stuff!

[jbilcke]

chitinous titanium:

[jbilcke]

I modified some of the original material maps to make them more saturated / unsaturated / vintage / retro,
they are in /public/textures/material-maps/ (also it feels less like a total rip off this way):

also I put some copy/pasted normal maps in /public/textures/normal-maps/

[jbilcke]

put some additional sexy material map.. lovely crystal and rare stones, plus nacre / glossy dark and white materials:

[jbilcke]

I am in the process of porting the code from his demo, hopefully.. it will work......