ANSWERED: Hand-painting details?

InscrutableTurtle

Is it possible to somehow manually specify a region for details to be generated in?
My model is mostly flat and I can't really imagine anything I can bake\paint in the normal map, but I want to create leaking rust like here. I think I can create rust accumulating at the bottom like here using a gradient map, but I don't know about leaks.
I want to manually specify a region but also use scanned mask data, what should I do?

Gordon Robb

I would imagine, get the rust material you want, and paint a custom mask.

CKohl

Set up one of the rust materials and then pop open the dynamask. When the dynamask appears it opens up BaseMaterial_Mask.psd and there is a space within that file where you can add custom painted layers for masking. So you could make a new layer there and paint as many leaks as you want. Since it's part of dynamask, it'll automatically get copied to all other maps' masks for that material like spec, gloss, etc..

Check out my two posts here (because picture attachments):
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2257868#post2257868

Eric Ramberg

Thanks again for the help CKhol!

InscrutableTurtle does that answer all your questions?

InscrutableTurtle

Yes, thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for!

Eric Ramberg

Awesome