Marmoset Toolbag Tutorials, Latest: Getting Started with Toolbag 2
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Hello rare and fine people of the internet,
I have written a quick start guide to accompany the release of Marmoset Toolbag 2.
LATEST: Getting Started with Toolbag 2
Previous tutorials that I've written:
Skin Shader Tutorial
Portrait Lighting
Lighting Methods
Displacement Mapping
Material Creation
I have written a quick start guide to accompany the release of Marmoset Toolbag 2.
LATEST: Getting Started with Toolbag 2
Previous tutorials that I've written:
Skin Shader Tutorial
Portrait Lighting
Lighting Methods
Displacement Mapping
Material Creation
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Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff in there that we never got a chance to document, so I'm really excited to get this tutorial finished and get it out there.
I'm really glad you like the presentation, my goal was to provide a good mix between traditional text tutorials, but also show visually what settings to like you would see with a video tutorial, and more importantly provide a quick reference when you want to look at something again.
anyways, how do you get such sharp shadows ?
that seems to be one thing i cant get sharp enough no matter what size model i test with.
are these all dynamic lights shadows ?
*edit*
nevermind, just noticed the lighting tutorial and as i suspected the shadows are in fact from dynamic lights.
seth.: Yeah, the translucency mask is really cool, perfect for ears, wax, etc.
Haz: DO WANT.
ILLMATICC, Brandon: Thanks guys, glad to hear that its useful.
this would really open up more possibilities for the sss shader. right now if i want to have a different translucency color within same material it seems to be impossible.
if there is a workaround to that please let me know.
You can add color variation to the dermis color with the skin tone texture, and color variation to the translucency effect with the translucent texture. There isn't any way to add color variation via texture map to the sub-dermis though, perhaps something we can look into for TB2.
now both dermis and scatter colors are matching closer to the skin tone map.
Oh yeah, if you're putting skin tone variation in the skin tone map, you should set the dermis color white, otherwise you'll be tinting it twice (with the texture content and the color picker value).
i was testing this on an asset with multi-color(green, orange, cyan, red) plastic surfaces so the subdermis color needs to be different on each area.
dermis color has been white all the time while the subdermis color was green. this seems to have multiplied green with all the other colors in the skin tone map.
only work around i found is using white on both dermis and subdermis and then just using skin tone and translucency maps on top of that.
Ah ok, if you can easily separate the various colors into their own mesh chunks and apply a different material that would probably work best.
Also, if are you using Max 2010+ or Max 2008/09 with Polyboost, you have access to baking a Subsurface and Density map, two good places to start.
Inverted AO Map bake is another way, it's the same way Max bakes, but other applications like Maya, XSI, Blender and XN don't automatically do it, so you need to set it up manually.
the hair on the marmosets as where
her way
Getting Started with Toolbag 2
u can bake them in knald too.
Would I be able to run a whole animation with this?
this real time game like rendering could really work well for my workflow.
Not at this time, animation support is something we plan on adding at a later date.
Not currently, layering will be added in an update some time in the future as well.
We've got a big thread over in tech talk dedicated to TB2 as well: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=128766
Thanks for the quick reply. Keep up the good work.