(Color Utilities) Surface Luminance -> (Color Utilities) Clamp -> Ramp Add as a layer to the shader you want it to affect. The layer can either be a layer in a layered texture or layered shader. This doesn't solve your request in the OP but can be used to solve faking SSS.
there is many ways to mix normal maps and they can have different results. Its not always going to be optimal to remove the blue channel however, although it works fine if you are doing it to texture sampled normal maps, as apposed to those created via surface sampling. But for in photoshop layering one normal map over…
Spot on Marc, I was thinking the same thing while detailing it. But zBrush is not too good at doing high level transfrmations like that so I'll give it more of a tapering shape with a Lattice Deformer in Maya. I'm also thinking I need to sit down and figure out an art direction properly. Right now I'm sort of pushing and…
@TeriyakiStyle Nice work yourself there! Those shoes have a lot of character even as they are now. @Lroy Thanks man. Been really trying to push my texture work so I'm glad to hear its showing through. As for workflow, I start with the high poly first in general just b/c it looks nice. Then I build the low poly on top and…
Finally got some momentum and decided to texture this model. Initial model is done in rhino a few years ago, now i took it in houdini for some nice rounded edges, then optimized and UV'd in max. Baking was done in SD as was the entire texturing. The material is a layered one inside designer, starting from the base metal,…
Hello polycounters! I’m making normal maps for my tugboat model. And I just found super-quick-easy way to make small welding seams on normal map in Photoshop. May be everyone know this method, maybe it too simple, but i think it can be usefull for beginners. Pros: * Very fast * You can erase or paint new welding seams…
Bump: I think this is because you don't have a locked background layer underneath. You can have sample all layers ticked and it'll work on a layer above the flattened, locked layer but it will not work without one. If all your layers are floating it won't work.
Hello!, I'm working on a project for Uni to create the Interior of a Room, which will end up in Unreal.I am replicating the town of Bellhart from Hollow Knight Silksong, which is a 2D / 2.5D game. I'm going to adapt it's stylised illustrated elements into semi-stylised real-time Assets. I'm currently modelling some of the…
Select the stitch layer's transparency by CTRL+LMB on the layer thumbnail, then create a new layer and fill that with white. Copy and paste that layer into your DDO layer stack. Once you've done this, visit my DDO tutorial and CTRL+F to "Masking Without Color IDs" for the rest of the process. :)
This project is based on Jourdan Tuffan's Esbatuan Architecture. I made this in order to become more comfortable working with a trim workflow and trying to reduce the amount of hand-textured assets in a scene. I heavily relied on Silke Van Der Smissen's dissertation on material layers and highly recommend it for anyone who…