Thiago Vidotto's Dota2 tutorials and guides
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Thiago Vidotto has produced a series of tutorials and guides for use in creating items for the Dota2 workshop. These are meant for the intermediate to advanced artist who would like to get some insight into some of the techniques and methods of the Dota2 pipeline. Each is fully laid out here on the site and you can even download PDF versions so you can review them even while offline.
Texturing Guide for 3D artists:
- Part One: Quick Bakes - A great tutorial on how to render out your meshes to textures
- Part Two: Light Bakes - A walkthrough on how to light your models and render the light to textures
- Part Three: The Dota2 Shader - An easy walkthrough of the shader and how to maximize your work for it
- Part Four: Previewing - A walkthrough of several tools used to correctly view your Dota2 work
Composition Guide for 3D artists - This discusses ways in which help display and present your work