ANSWERED: Adding new material mid-process

HowlYeYe

I'm in the process of texturing a gun model, and I've used my material id map to separate all of the smart materials when originally baking the textures with ddo.

However, I've realized that I want to make bolts (originally contained within the same material id color as the dark metal for the weapon) silver. Is there a way to add a new material similarly to the process in the beginning, after having already created and edited quite a few of the ones already there?

Will adding a new color to the color id map mess up all of the work I did previously on my existing materials?

Thanks!

HowlYeYe

Mainly, what I'm looking for is instructions on how to input a new custom material mask onto the new smart material, and then work into that mask further with more material layers.

Eric Ramberg

hi there!

The easiest way to achieve what you are looking for is to updated your color id map with the bolts that you want, then use the "reimport inputs" on the main DDO window, swap out your color id and re-render, and you can just add a new smart material on your bolts!

Let me know if you have any more questions!

HowlYeYe

Hi! Thanks, I'll try that out.

Another question I have is about resizing. Currently I'm working on a model that has a 4096x2048 UV map. Is there a way to input this into DDO so it creates materials that don't stretch on the model?

Thanks

Eric Ramberg

2048x4096 should not be any problem! Have you experienced stretching with those messurements before?

HowlYeYe

Hey - I guess it's not stretching necessarily, I just am not getting the expected resolution out of the textures that I had hoped? Watching the tutorial videos (especially the AK74u) the results are REALLY high quality - but I'm not achieving that level of detail in my results, although they are still grand.

Are there any settings I can change to get crisper, less pixelated results? I'm working at the 4096x4096 resolution at the moment.

Thanks!

Eric Ramberg

It all comes down to texturesize and texel density, would you mind sharing a screen of your model and the parts where it doesnt look as crisp as it should?

HowlYeYe

Hi Eric - this is a screenshot I took from 3DO.

http://i.imgur.com/fEVF5uZ.jpg

I've changed a majority of the texture sizes to -2 thinking it would make them a little crisper. But I can't get anything NEAR the quality of this for example.

http://quixel.se/sites/default/files/images3do/3dobig1.jpg

Maybe there's a setting I'm getting wrong? Thanks!

Ondrej_Holan

There are sample projects on Quixel wiki:
http://quixel.se/usermanual/quixelsuite/doku.php?id=ddo_samples
You can see there how they textured it, and look at the details.

Eric Ramberg

HowIYeYe - Looks like you have some issues with the UV map, different parts have different textel-density. I would suggest going back to your 3d package and rework the UV, its very crucial for The Suite. If you want you can upload your project as a zip-file and I can take a look at it to know for sure!

HowlYeYe

Yes, I think you're right Eric - I'm retexturing another person's model, and a lot of the larger parts aren't very optimized in the UVs.

I think that answers my questions in this thread - thank you very much! I did have another question in a different thread on editing masks figured it would be better to keep the topics in separate threads to allow other users to find information easier.

Eric Ramberg

Glad to help!

Thank you for doing that, it makes it much easier to keep track of everything