material texturing wiki?

Savage

Was wondering if anyone has created a fairly simple and easy breakdown of the best ways to texture for certain materials. ie, for material A your diffuse would be a patterned texture, spec would be white, cosine would be black and your normal would be the surface material?

Just thought it might be interesting to have a resource that offers a quick painless reference tool for creating materials of all sorts.

cman2k

Hey there Savage!

1. This should probably have gone into the technical talk subforum, not General Discussion

2. You mention wiki in your topic, but have you checked the polycount wiki at all? Plenty of good information there.

3. Phillip Kliestav has made pretty much exactly what you are asking for. Here is a direct link.

sprunghunt

If it was that easy everyone would do it...

but seriously - the polycount wiki is pretty good for all aspects of 3D
http://wiki.polycount.com/CategoryCharacterTexturing?highlight=%28%5CbCategoryCharacter%5Cb%29

Racer445

But it IS that easy! I'd like to quote EarthQuake from a recent thread...

And when someone asks "how do I paint XXX material" I always try to explain that the important part is studying reference and material properties, not following a tutorial or workflow catered to the specific material.

When you learn to observe, you can pick apart things and figure out how they work with no problems...