Texturing tutorials?

acitone

Texturing is not something I know a lot about. I have began tutorials but something I am missing is how to texture with pre-made textures or photos like the 3dsk content. I read some people even "mix" textures. Anyone have a tutorial in mind that can help me? Tips too would be appreciated.

ghaztehschmexeh

A great free start is Racer445's latest tutorial in which he textures a scifi sword. I would provide a link but I can't seem to find one right now. Search around for Racer445 and I'm sure you'll find useful things.

And if you don't mind paying, then websites like Eat3D or 3DMotive have some great tutorials - such as "The Briefcase".

acitone

Oh thanks a bunch buddy I'll go search for him right now then check out Eat3D, I've seen them around.

CordellC

Here is the link in case you have a hard time finding it. It's more of a workflow than a tutorial. Just talks through the process about various ways to achieve things and good texturing theory.

Ott

I hear 3dmotive has some great texturing tutorials too!

acitone

Hi guys I started trying my luck with UVW Unwrap and I have these green lines over some of the edges of the head. It makes it impossible to tell whether the edges are being selected or not. Can anyone shed some light on this?

passerby

those green edges would be UV seams.


also why are you unwrapping a highPoly mesh?

acitone

Good question. I actually just thought of it when you asked just now that I in fact DO have a low poly version of her but this brings up another question : if all I had was this high poly version then I would still have to unwrap her right? Or is there something wrong with unwrapping a high poly mesh?

Another Q : How do I render or export the UV's so that I can go to Photoshop with it?

Thanks for that links btw CordellC

passerby

there is no purpose in unwrapping the high poly, most people just use it for bakeing normals, and AO to the lowpoly, which it dosnt need uv's to do. olny hte low poly needs UV's.

acitone

OK OK I'm learning something today!

So the workflow is this : Make a high poly for all the details then make a low poly which you will actually use for the game, and unwrap the low poly instead. So all the detail from the high poly is transformed, if you will, from polys to textures? Is that what "baking normals" means? I have seen that term many times here and places and I do not know what it is. Can't wait to find out

passerby

yep, there are a few tuts on the polycount wiki about the process, but baking the normals from the highpoly into a normalmap for hte low more or less bakes the information used for shading the highpoly into the low poly faking more detail than is really there.

there is also addtianl maps you can bake too such as ambient occlusion and cavity.

hopefully someone with more time on there hands to point you in the next direction posts next for ya.

http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap/

acitone

Ah cool man, when you get a chance tomorrow or whenever drop by and post another link if you can but this is a great start for me. Texturing is not seeming so scary anymore

Chase

I'll post some tutorials I've use for later tonight