Literally Handpainted Uv's
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So I was thinking has anyone actually say printed out their Uv's literally hand painted them and then scanned them back into the computer at high res?
Wondering what this would look like.
Wondering what this would look like.
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It'd seem to me that painting a texture would be a pain in the ass because of how much trail and error can go into getting details in the right places.
Thats pretty interesting for TF2 never knew that and maybe if you did a quick line sketch in photoshop before painting over it could save some time. I am going to crank something out with the help of painter friend in the next couple of weeks and see how it goes
WHAT ABOUT THAT
They obviously met success in their procedure so it's definitely doable.
At first thought you were aiming at camera mapping which is kind of the other way and I am working on something to make that quicker to work with. Lots of great stuff has been done using camera mapping in the VFX industry less in the game industry.
I've looked for the model once or twice but I can't remember the name so I can never find it
http://www.davegh.com/blade/davegh.htm
Funny (?) story behind his site, he wasn't paid for his work, so he put on the web for all to use.
http://www.ania.xibo.at/index.php?gallery=blub1&image=cham.jpg
http://www.ania.xibo.at/img/cham_makingof.pdf
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Anyway, I only did line drawing/inking on the printout, scanned it back in, and did the coloring in Photoshop. As was stated by Swizzle in another post in this thread, it didn't work out so well because of all of the trial/error involved in getting details placed just-so on your UV layout. When you create texture details in Photoshop you have the layers to move stuff around, but when you draw it by hand, you're stuck with it unless you want to draw it again. Of course, you could resort to some of the rapid viz/technical illustration techniques of iterative drawing using tracing paper... but now you're talking about an enourmous effort for something that can probably be emulated with a good stylus/tablet or some creative use of Photoshop filters.
Bottom line is - yes, it can be done, and with appropriate planning and patience, it can be done well. But personally, I'd rather hit myself in the head with a hammer 5 or 6 times.
i did that pirate model. you can even download it here
http://www.ericspitler.com/junk/q3mdl-scurvy.zip
i think i also did a texture for a little dragon using the same technique. did pior do that model?
it was definitely a cool experience trying this, but i wonder if using corel painter would have looked better. it also sucked shrinking the textures down so low for quake 3 specs. maybe i'll try it again some time.
in addition to printing out the wireframe to trace over, i did a rough line drawing in photoshop to figure out where all the main elements in the texture would be and printed that out. when i finished the drawing, and scanned it in, i just treated it like any other texture and used the clone brush to fix seams and what not.
Yeah, pior did the little dragon if I remember right, Dragonito, that thing was cool too!
bookmarked, I'm going to try this someday.