Hand painted texturing edge lighting question

polygonfocus

Hi guys just wondered how do u guys create ur edge lighting on your hand painted 3d assets? Do u use a specific photoshop brush or some technique ? I' ve read some people manipulate their baked maps to get this effect. I can never achieve gd edge lighting and always wonder whats the secret behind league of legends or wild star to gd edge lighting. Thanksss:)

Tobbo

I'm not really sure what you mean by edge lighting? I'd imagine it's just painted in the texture itself?

Some people may use AO maps or curvature maps as a guide for hand painting lighting information. But it still looks better if you actually paint it into the texture itself and not rely on an overlay or multiply to do all the work.

If you want to get better at hand painting stylized textures, I would suggest just doing some 2d studies.

polygonfocus

Hi, what i mean by edge lighting is basically the highlights on the edge of an object that helps sell the shape and form. Any more ppl care to share their ideas etc.?

unit187

I believe it is not about some top secret technique. You just have to know how to paint well. Study 2d.

Blaisoid

Perhaps what you're looking for is fresnel FX?
In this case it's a shader feature, unrelated to texturing techniques.

If you posted some screens it would be easier to understand what you mean.

ExcessiveZero

Edit:Wrong thread, no idea how that happened.

firestarter

Possibly you're seeing the combination of the diffuse map and the specular map? Specular map adds the 'extra glinty' bits under certain lighting conditions? I'm not really familiar with LoL or WildStar assets, so...
And pretty much what Tobbo said.

JedTheKrampus

Alternatively, there's rim lighting which is implemented in a shader and brightens the edges of an object, but if you want to use that you have to have a shader that supports it.

Gannon

Example pics please!

Shrike

He very likely means drybrushing, simply giving accents to edges



Custom grungy brushes and custom grungy erasers, but you dont need anything special for such things, just try making the brush have hard edges and not be too soft

You can start by just painting all the important edges uniformly on your asset and then erase like 80% of that
if you dont know how to start. You can also use a curvature map as base if you modify it heavily

moose

identify edge, draw line on edge. Vary opacity while drawing line, more opaque near corners and centers, less in between - or consistent opacity for specific style. Vary edge width for texture.

this what you mean?


see also:
http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm

polygonfocus

Yep. Shrike and moose thats what i mean really its the edge highlights, thanks guys for the responses , dustinbrown i wilk defo try ur technique and try variations of mooses

ahtiandr

You should definitely try this tutorial. It is just about hand painting

https://www.3dmotive.com/f101801

xvampire

polygonfocus wrote: »

Hi guys just wondered how do u guys create ur edge lighting on your hand painted 3d assets? Do u use a specific photoshop brush or some technique ? I' ve read some people manipulate their baked maps to get this effect. I can never achieve gd edge lighting and always wonder whats the secret behind league of legends or wild star to gd edge lighting. Thanksss:)

you mean this?
you can get it from normal map
and hand paint/refine it after that ..,
if you want to do it from scratch/hand painted i guess. its straight forward