SoilChild Texture Tutorial! (image Heavy)

Josh_Singh · May 2007

Hey guys, I started this way back at the blizzard comp.
Not as finished as I would like it to be, but I hope you can get something out of it.
I present my first tutorial ever!! The Soil Child Texture Tutorial!

MoP · May 2007

Nice one Josh, thanks!

adam · May 2007

Aye - badass man, thanks!

ChaosEidolon · May 2007

Cool! Nice breakdown of your process.

Joao Sapiro · May 2007

thanks josh ! i could really see some work you have on your folio in the twilight princess game

ROCK ON !

xysdf · May 2007

Big Thanks, Josh! - found some cool&fresh approaches for myself

conte · May 2007

nice tutorial, but uvmap of model not the best example how to make them(lots of wasted pixels)
anyway, tut was about texturing, and you did it nice.
thx

dabu · May 2007

Does anyone know how to do the bake texture technique in Maya 8.5? I used to have a mental ray shader that worked in 6.5, but I can't get it to work now...

Panupat · May 2007

Very nice tutorial and thanks Josh.

EricElwell · May 2007

cool Josh, yeah it does seem like a big step from 8 to 9, I find that writing tuts is more draining than actually making the texture, and I find myself detailing every step until I get anxious to finish, then just slamming out the final texture and not bothering to breakdown what I had done in the final stages. Though, aside from a good base in traditional art knowledge, it's those final stages that make the difference between average work and great work.

Anyway, very cool to see you doing tuts!

Josh Winn · May 2007

Thanks for the tip about the minimum/maximum filter! That should come in handy.
Did you mean maximum though, not minimum? (since you are expanding)

Psyk0 · May 2007

Tuts are always welcomed, thanks!

TheWinterLord · May 2007

cool tutorial!

Why dont you post the final texture?

Richard Kain · May 2007

That's a great tutorial. Very clean and easy to follow. And the results speak for themselves. Thank you for taking the time and effort to put that together for us.

Zephir62 · May 2007

Awesome tutorial - it's always nice to see someone else's workflow. You say that there are plenty of lightmap baking tutorials but after 30 minutes of googling I haven't come across anything interesting other than Unreal 2k3 level editor tuts.

Can someone supply one for me, as I'm having a little trouble figuring everything out. Thanks!

Rick Stirling · May 2007

Great mini tut. Had to share it.

Jeremy Lindstrom · May 2007

I'm guesssing this is only for 3dsmax...

I'd like to see some maya tuts too

Here's an ambient occlusion map tutorial for maya..

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/vbarticles.php?do=article&articleid=17

Emil Mujanovic · May 2007

Short and sweet, thanks Josh.

-caseyjones

bounchfx · May 2007

excellent dude, make some of your new stuff too if you can!!

warby · May 2007

did you really need 2 materials / batches for this ?

the concept and the texture look great but i have to harshly criticizes your uv mapping / texturepartitioning ( if that even is a word )

Vailias · May 2007

Simplest way to bake a lightmap in maya:
1: setup your lights
2: apply a basic gray material, specular type if you want it.
3: open hypershade if not already open
4: select your mesh and the material (hold shift)
5: in Hypershade go to edit>Convert to File Texture(maya software)
6: set up your options for the conversion. Type in your texture res you want, as the highest default via the sliders is 512.
7: hit convert.

8: select the textures tab in hypershade, find the newly created texture, right click and hold on the texture, then select edit texture from the popup menu. Take it to photoshop from there.

indian_boy · May 2007

wow! thats a great mini-tut!

only things missin that i really want to see are steps 8.1 to 8.9.

FreshDumbledore · Nov 2010

cant see any images...

fearian · Nov 2010

FreshDumbledore wrote: »

cant see any images...

^^^

[HP] · Nov 2010

If only you weren't 3 years late! :P

chadabees · Nov 2010

"If only you weren't 3 years late! :P "

XD

Jungsik · Nov 2010

I dont see any link

I would love to see this tutorial

fearian · Nov 2010

oh, haha, I saw this in the recent posts list and thought It might be new! Damn you FreshDumbledore!

Spatz · Feb 2011

here it is still alive

Visceral · Feb 2011

lol i saw this thread beeing bumped and i asked myself the same question, where is the tut :P necrobumps should be prohibited.

Mr.Wednesday · Mar 2011

Thanks Spatz! I really wanted to take a look at this tut!

Alphavader · Aug 2011

reupp plz..

Steve Schulze · Aug 2011

The link that Spatz posted still works.
http://www.gameartisans.org/gamecon/tutorials/tut_2.htm

Okoo · Jul 2012

fuck, doesnt work anymore. =(

Steve Schulze · Jul 2012

GA is down a the moment while Fred noodles about with a new design. With some luck it should be back up some time between now and the end of the universe.

SoilChild Texture Tutorial! (image Heavy)

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