Hand painted stylized textures

Benjam

Hey fellow polycounters,

Just a quick question. I am about to embark on my first ever hand painted textured model. I am new to hand painted textures and have wanted to try them for ages and would like to ask a question about how to attack the model itself.

With stuff from WOW and nearly all hand painted models ive seen the models are quite low poly and kind of blocky and looks like they are made to be that way. Am i right in thinking that it is the style to go for with hand painted textures and their respective models?

P.S. Any tips on how to make a decent hand painted textures would be awesome as well. I think ive got the right idea but im not too sure. How do you guys usually start your textures and what type of workflow do you follow?

Cheers guys

Bigjohn

Not really. The blocky thing is not a style, it's just a technical limitation of having a low poly-count. Usually it's that same limitation that makes people choose the diffuse-only path to begin with. It's just much lower specs. Games like WoW choose that option because they want their game to perform on a wide variety of hardware. Not all, or most even, MMO players have top-notch hardware.

If you're doing it just to study, you could really just do whatever you like. You could do it on a 12k tris model with a 2048 texture. Or you could keep it more realistic and do like a 5k tris model with a 256 or a 512 or something. It's really up to you.

cptSwing

Here's a start: http://wiki.polycount.com/TexturingTutorials#Painting_Stylistic_Textures

Bek

The Vertex book has a section on hand painted stuff too, so you should check it out if you haven't already

Benjam

Just downloaded the vertex book and jeeeeezus there is some great stuff in there thanks for the heads up!