Metal Texture help

Drayzers

Hey guy im texturing a robotic cat and i am having trouble trying to hand paint a metal texture. If anyone could give me a tutorial or some good tip that would be great.

P.S. im using photoshop and this is what

Butthair

If this metal is super sleek sci fi where it's mostly reflective then its more on the shader and smooth normals than the texture.

If this metal is scratched and coarse, then it's more on the spec map and somewhat with how you paint the marks and knicks.

If this is unlit then reference the type of metal you are painting and study how lighting is interacting with it.

In future, please specify your problem to get a better answer. I can't read your mind so if any of the above is completely useless then give some details on what's going on.

Drayzers

I want to paint my texture kind of like world of warcraft type of style.

Butthair

Albiet vague still, you should look at some WoW metal then. In terms of handling hand-painted metal..
http://wiki.polycount.com/TexturingTutorials

There are a lot of different links that talk about hand painting if you scroll down a bit.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7334/painttut.jpg
This link might be a better example to WoW style, it may not look exactly like it but it's the steps to get to it. And yes, it's a stone, but their metal is honestly not far off.

Drayzers

It not that vague im looking to paint a cartoon metal texture world of warcraft.